Planting a Ton of Dahlias & Inspecting Our Birch Tree for Possible Issues!
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Date: 2022-07-16
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Lisa
got my order from swan island dahlias. they give great instructions. they require a low nitrogen fertilizer, but like high potassium and phosphorus. so like a 5-10-10. wondering if your stuff has that. I know your dahlia's look great, so whatever your land and sea has, it must be working. They also recommend using bone meal and slug and snail baiting at planting. lots of water during the summer, not by hand, but sprinkler. and then spraying for spiker mites and mildew, and pinching! sounds like a lot of work, but worth it! looking forward to my Year of the Dahlia as I'm calling it. Can't wait to see yours and all the transformations coming.
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got my order from swan island dahlias. they give great instructions. they require a low nitrogen fertilizer, but like high potassium and phosphorus. so like a 5-10-10. wondering if your stuff has that. I know your dahlia's look great, so whatever your land and sea has, it must be working. They also recommend using bone meal and slug and snail baiting at planting. lots of water during the summer, not by hand, but sprinkler. and then spraying for spiker mites and mildew, and pinching! sounds like a lot of work, but worth it! looking forward to my Year of the Dahlia as I'm calling it. Can't wait to see yours and all the transformations coming.
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Vlrissolo
would be interesting and informative to watch you bring more struggling plants back as opposed to giving them away to others to heal. I think we'd all learn from your experiences and it's very rewarding. Sometimes I feel I'm losing touch with GA due to the amount of money I want to invest in my garden. I started a little mulch pile to save on fertilizer and I understand there's nothing better. or so says the garden guy! He also said wood chips steal nitrogen from the soil and keep it away from plantings. all you folks have helped and encouraged me to grow a prolific garden just experimenting!
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would be interesting and informative to watch you bring more struggling plants back as opposed to giving them away to others to heal. I think we'd all learn from your experiences and it's very rewarding. Sometimes I feel I'm losing touch with GA due to the amount of money I want to invest in my garden. I started a little mulch pile to save on fertilizer and I understand there's nothing better. or so says the garden guy! He also said wood chips steal nitrogen from the soil and keep it away from plantings. all you folks have helped and encouraged me to grow a prolific garden just experimenting!
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Vlrissolo
I planted dahlias from seed last year. I left the ones in the ground covered with excess soil and some shipping material. I'm in zone 7B. I stored the tubers, that grew in planters and wrapped them in damp vermiculite and newspaper. THE ONES LEFT IN THE GROUND ARE HUGE AND STUNNING ALREADY! the others are ok but not worth the work. We had the coldest winter in years! I know what I'm doing this year! Already saving packing material! Successful experiment and much less costly than buying tubers. Maybe Laura should try a small section, hell they almost survived her pots. As I recall, some did!
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I planted dahlias from seed last year. I left the ones in the ground covered with excess soil and some shipping material. I'm in zone 7B. I stored the tubers, that grew in planters and wrapped them in damp vermiculite and newspaper. THE ONES LEFT IN THE GROUND ARE HUGE AND STUNNING ALREADY! the others are ok but not worth the work. We had the coldest winter in years! I know what I'm doing this year! Already saving packing material! Successful experiment and much less costly than buying tubers. Maybe Laura should try a small section, hell they almost survived her pots. As I recall, some did!
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I wonder if the activity and heavy machinery around your tree has impacted the root system and you're seeing that stress in the branches. Tree roots are actually 90% within the top 2 feet of soil, and reach out way past the drip zone (though this is the most critical area to protect for tree health. Looks like things have been driven over quite close to that tree, so that's my guess! The roots will grow back, but compressed soil is really difficult for them. You could consider decompacting it, I heard they use a machine with compressed air!
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I wonder if the activity and heavy machinery around your tree has impacted the root system and you're seeing that stress in the branches. Tree roots are actually 90% within the top 2 feet of soil, and reach out way past the drip zone (though this is the most critical area to protect for tree health. Looks like things have been driven over quite close to that tree, so that's my guess! The roots will grow back, but compressed soil is really difficult for them. You could consider decompacting it, I heard they use a machine with compressed air!
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Marta
I live in southern Ontario and several years ago something similar happened to the birches in my neighbourhood. My birch clump was fairly young, and all mine died. They looked fine in the fall and then failed to leaf out in the spring and never did. People with more mature trees had the tops die off just like yours, except even more severe. Everyone with a young tree lost theirs and everyone with a more mature tree, like 15 ft and up, ended up with an 8 ft tree.
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I live in southern Ontario and several years ago something similar happened to the birches in my neighbourhood. My birch clump was fairly young, and all mine died. They looked fine in the fall and then failed to leaf out in the spring and never did. People with more mature trees had the tops die off just like yours, except even more severe. Everyone with a young tree lost theirs and everyone with a more mature tree, like 15 ft and up, ended up with an 8 ft tree.
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Karen
I am on year two with my cut flower garden. I have eleven 100 rows to plant. I want to mulch my walkways to minimize weed growth, and am curious how Paul mulched yours. Could he get a small loader down between rows or was it a good ole fashioned wheelbarrow? I am thinking Im going to be huffing load after load of mulch/ wood chips. unless Paul has some tricks to share? I might need to get some young helpers. Thanks for inspiring us daily!
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I am on year two with my cut flower garden. I have eleven 100 rows to plant. I want to mulch my walkways to minimize weed growth, and am curious how Paul mulched yours. Could he get a small loader down between rows or was it a good ole fashioned wheelbarrow? I am thinking Im going to be huffing load after load of mulch/ wood chips. unless Paul has some tricks to share? I might need to get some young helpers. Thanks for inspiring us daily!
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handmade
My guess is maybe since the stems are young they were more sensitive to cold, dry wind compared to the branches below it. Hopefully it naturally sheds the dried up stems if the buds were damaged and wont pop. Fun fact: did u know that catkins are used as vegetables in a lot of asian countries? Since the birch grow so tall, big and fast, the cut down huge branches to be able to harvest. - Zee, N. Cali zone10a
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My guess is maybe since the stems are young they were more sensitive to cold, dry wind compared to the branches below it. Hopefully it naturally sheds the dried up stems if the buds were damaged and wont pop. Fun fact: did u know that catkins are used as vegetables in a lot of asian countries? Since the birch grow so tall, big and fast, the cut down huge branches to be able to harvest. - Zee, N. Cali zone10a
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poojalokesh1
Hi, can you please address what kind of preventative measures you take for trees, annuals and other plants in your garden? I am new to gardening and I am not sure if I can do preventative sprays on my plants. I feel like I come to know of the problem when it's already too bad and the plant is on the verge of dying. I would really like to do some preventative care if I know what I can do.
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Hi, can you please address what kind of preventative measures you take for trees, annuals and other plants in your garden? I am new to gardening and I am not sure if I can do preventative sprays on my plants. I feel like I come to know of the problem when it's already too bad and the plant is on the verge of dying. I would really like to do some preventative care if I know what I can do.
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Nina
Just a thought here. I had a Japanese Maple that had the same kind of dying out appearance in the center of it from the top down. and it took 3-4 years to finally see what had happened. by then an entire center section of the tree had 'died'. there was a crack in the tree all the way around at a crook where other main branches came out. the tree ended up having to be removed.
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Just a thought here. I had a Japanese Maple that had the same kind of dying out appearance in the center of it from the top down. and it took 3-4 years to finally see what had happened. by then an entire center section of the tree had 'died'. there was a crack in the tree all the way around at a crook where other main branches came out. the tree ended up having to be removed.
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