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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Ouch that was a lot of trees gone.
 
Last year I did the first fertilizing on the pecan trees hand scattered like 
that and was pretty careful on the amount used, and built "moates" from the 
drip line towards the trunk to keep the water in the right place.  Later my 
brother was digging up some of the weeds, and carelessly exposed the roots 
and then tossed fertilizer on the roots and nearly killed the long 
established trees.  The leaves were horribly burned.  I wasn't sure if it was 
from the way he fertilzed or some other problem and called the extension guy 
out.  It was 2 things. He burned up the roots, and there was an iron 
deficiency (probably caused by flooding here last year).
 
This year I expanded the "moates" (to hold the water over the root zone) 
further out to allow for some expansion, and dug 8" deep holes 8 around each 
tree, and portioned out the fertilizer in the holes and buried them,,,, as 
somewhere during the last year I read that one of the ingredients in the 
fertilizer can evaporte (not the right word, but I think you can figure out 
what I mean).....  The first application is right when the leaf buds start, 
and the leaf coverage is really great this year, and I applied chelated iron, 
and most of the iron deficiency seems corrected, but I will add more iron 
next year.  2nd application of fertilizer (buried again) was done shortly 
after the blooms for the nuts.  This is an "off-year" for pecans, so I'm not 
expecting a big harvest, but I can see that the trees did recover from last 
year's mishap.
 
You've got deer,,,, I've got ground squirrels.  They are so brazen about 
stealing baby veggies.... that I found a 3" yellow squash (1-2 days old on 
the plant) dragged about 50' away.  The only thing that slows them down it 
that I put mouse traps near anything growing and the slightest movement makes 
them "snap" and scares them away.... LOL.  I have to reset them every few 
days.... so I guess their attention span is somewhat short.
 

--- On Tue, 7/21/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:


 I was fertilizing the trees
and tossing the sand-like organic fertilizer in the root zone 


    
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Don't laugh at my response... just remember I'm a newbie at this gardening 
stuff....
 
Maybe you are being too "nice" to them.  :-)
 
 
I read the comments earlier in the year about how hard they are to germinate 
etc.  So when I when to direct sow my seed....... I put a ton of seed in 
thing I would be lucky if any of the seed would sprout in the designated area.
 
The designated area?  Desert sand, no manure, no fertilizer, planted in the 
corn row, no radishes (as recommended in the how to books).... The only thing 
I had was the irrigation soaker hose..
 
Germination was probably a week, but it felt like overnight.  I couldn't 
believe it.  There were so many germinating I spent more time thinning out 
extra sprouts than anything else.  For every one carrot I wanted, I must have 
pulled 20 (for 45 feet......)
 
Hence, my comment... maybe you are being too nice to them.  
 
My soil was awful - just sand, no fertilizer,,,, just water.   I realize now 
I haven't been keeping records of the temperature swings from a/m to p/m to 
evening.  Early May from memory was chilly (45-50) in the morning, and likely 
high 70s to mid-80s.  The only thing is, that since I depend on irrigation, 
that the seedlings did get water every morning, not directly, but water 
spread out towards the seeds from the drip area.
 
And I've got voluteers all over, so the wind must have blown some of the seed 
(or critters moved some seeds).
 
 

 

From: Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com

 

I wanted to ask if anyone knows what's the deal with carrot germination?? 
I've never been able to grow carrots, but this year my first and second 
plantings germinated and look great. Encouraged, I planted more...same seed, 
same garden bed...3 weeks and not a sign of them. Does it depend on 
temperature? Moisture? Some combination that I'm not getting right?? If I 
replant, will they all come up and I'll spend the rest of the summer 
thinning them? Carrots are going to drive me crazy.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA 

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Returned last night from a working trip to Peru.  While there,
watched adobe bricks being made, one of my passions -- similar
process to everywhere else I have seen them made. Also, visited some
small and large farms.  They grow many more varieties of corn,
squash, and potatoes than we see in the U.S.

I also sampled Pisco, the national drink of Peru, and chicha, a mild
fermented drink made from potatoes, and ate a lot of wonderful
Peruvian food, but not qui, or guinea pig.  I ate qui last year while
there, so can say I did it, but chose not to this trip.  While it is
not much different from eating rabbit, it is too much like eating one
of the childrens' pets.

I have been going through emails today and read the discussions by
some of you on squash.  Had this email from Martha Stewart which
includes zucchini and cucumber recipes, which you may find
useful.  Some of the zucchini recipes may be adapted for other kinds
of squash, but I'm not sure.  Eating them is my talent, not cooking them.

Zucchini Recipes
http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/zucchini?xsc=eml_edf_2009_07_21

Cucumber Recipes
http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/cucumber-recipes?xsc=eml_edf_2009_07_21

Jerry




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The problem with all the back and forth is that it could have easily been
taken care of . . . BY Obama.

Berg filed a lawsuit against Obama, the DNC and the FEC.  All the Obama
outfit had to do was produce a U.S. passport for the year 1981 showing
entrance and egress stamps covering Indonesia and Pakistan.

They never came up with anything.  PERIOD.  All they did was file requests
for dismissal and did several stalling actions.

IF he traveled on a U.S. passport, let him produce it.  That is his
responsibility!

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
>
> I'm pretty much non-political, and not particularly a supporter of Obama.
> But I see things like this reported over and over without a shred of
> proof.
> Where did the Indonesian passport rumor start? If there was even a hint of
> evidence of that, wouldn't it have come out by now?