Kerry’s Garden

The Internet is a very dangerous place. It is just wayyyy to easy to browse the catalogs, click a couple of times and spend more than I probably should on plants. I was baaaaad again today. I ordered 2 White Imperial currants, 3 Northblue blueberries and a book on Plant Propagation. I decided against the [...]

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Last year I purchased two currents of the Red Lake variety. They spent their time in 3 gallon pots last year and I am contemplating where to put them this year. I was browsing the Internet last night and read that they are quite easy to root from 1 year old cuttings so… I’m at [...]

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The blueberry cuttings in the plastic bag are the farthest along. I am guessing that the bag not only keeps the humidity up but the temperature as well. The air temp in the basement is in the 55-60F range normally this time of year though I’ve not taken it lately. The cuttings in the float [...]

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Last year I took some blueberry cuttings in December or January, placed them in some sand in the shade and watched them start to break dormancy a couple of months later. Not long after that I watched them shrivel and die. This year I wanted to try it again, especially since the time to renovate [...]

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I found some sassafras fruit on one of our trees. I had wondered if the late spring frosts had trashed the blossoms but it appears that at least a few survived. I checked out the US Forest Service’s Silvics Manual and this is what it had to say about the fruit. Flowering and Fruiting- Sassafras [...]

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I took some cuttings of viburnum from the library parking lot, 6 in all. 3 apart had no treatment, 3 together had dip n grow treatment. All 6 were stuck in oasis, watered with olivia’s and put under a plastic cover outside. Cuttings of blueberry, rose, and flowering quince were taken, treated with dip n [...]

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Float bed – May 4, 2004 The beginnings of the 2004 garden. The lettuce in the foreground was started in mid Februrary in the basement under lights. It didn’t do much growing till it was moved to the float tray. The rest of the veggies and flowers were started in late Feb. The bed is [...]

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