<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br>New to the list and avid gardener. I spray my peach trees with Volck oil, which is a less toxic method of eradicating small insects. </div><div><br></div><div>-Adrya</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com" target="_blank">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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When and what kind of spray? I was told that one the blooms fall off<br>
it's too late, also no one could tell me what kind of insecticide to<br>
use. Oh, Jim they do the same with peaches that have fermented on the<br>
ground. I didn't think of that analogy though, I will this year.<br>
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On 04/26/2013 04:06 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:<br>
> You need to give it a good spraying :) Allen B. -- Allen<br>
> Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama<br>
><br>
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> [<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:04 PM To:<br>
> <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a> Subject: Re: [ale] Way OT - Gardening<br>
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> The house we're now renting, has a hybrid fruit tree in back. Our<br>
> first summer here we didn't know that what it was. All of sudden it<br>
> seemed it was growing these green fuzz balls. A week or 2 later we<br>
> saw that they changed colors and found that they were peaches, but<br>
> there were also nectarines and plums. Most of them the bugs and<br>
> worms got which attracted the birds. We were soon invaded by birds<br>
> that would start fighting each other for the bug infested fruit<br>
> leaving the remains to rot on the patio.<br>
><br>
> Last summer we weren't able to get any of the fruit as everyone had<br>
> worm holes.<br>
><br>
> Scott C.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 04/26/2013 02:46 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>> Yay Food!<br>
><br>
>> I have a batch of the funny brown tomato seeds ready to start<br>
>> sprouting. The fruits look odd but are very, very tasty. Grape<br>
>> vines are in but not trellised yet (merlot in Georgia will be a<br>
>> challenge!) and the new fig tree is looking happy. I didn't get<br>
>> around to splitting out the root runner off the early blueberry<br>
>> bush (again) this winter and it looks better than the mother<br>
>> bush. The other 2 blueberries are fruiting out nicely.<br>
><br>
>> I'll probably plant some other stuff soon but I have such limited<br>
>> full sun it's hard to narrow down the choices. I've learned my<br>
>> lesson about sugar pie pumpkins - plant those AFTER July 1 so the<br>
>> squash vine wasp won't get them. We eat pumpkin pie for breakfast<br>
>> :-) YUM! way better than cheerios, poptarts or bagels.<br>
><br>
>> Oh. I also planted a cascade hops vine this year :-) I still need<br>
>> to set up the ling string to the gutter for it. It's got 3 good<br>
>> shoots now at nearly 3 feet up a pole.<br>
><br>
>> The plum tree from 7 years ago has never produced a single bloom<br>
>> as is likely to get the axe to make room for a dwarf apple or<br>
>> pear tree. Bummer. It was from a runner off a relatives plum<br>
>> tree that cranked out 15-25 lbs of red plums every year. the<br>
>> last apple tree I had got hit by a sudden April freeze that<br>
>> killed all the leave buds (3 days below 25F will do that). We had<br>
>> been getting really good cooking/canning apples from that one. I<br>
>> almost held a memorial service for it.<br>
><br>
>> We no longer get volunteer tomatoes from 8 years ago. We had a<br>
>> single plant called "garden candy" that put out a steady stream<br>
>> of thumb-sized sugar-sweet OMFG!!! tomatoes from June until<br>
>> frost. The birds hauled off a bunch and those seeds popped up<br>
>> plants for the next 4 years. The drought finally stopped all<br>
>> that fun. Very sad now but very happy then. Hard to collect seeds<br>
>> from it as we ate all before they made it inside. Not a single<br>
>> one EVER hit a salad :-)<br>
><br>
><br>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Beddingfield, Allen<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> So, this is about as far off topic as one can stray, but I<br>
>> thought I would throw it out here for an afternoon diversion on<br>
>> this pretty spring day (at least it is a pretty spring day over<br>
>> here in Alabama :) ) Are any of you into gardening? If so, what<br>
>> do you plant, and what have you already gotten in the ground for<br>
>> this season? I start most of my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants,<br>
>> etc... from seed, and I have them up and almost ready to set<br>
>> out. I've been tilling during the brief periods when it has not<br>
>> been raining/too wet from rain, and I haven't been at work. I'm<br>
>> hoping to get the first round of tomatoes in the ground in the<br>
>> upcoming week, along with squash, corn, green beans, cucumbers,<br>
>> and lima beans. I start from seed and set out fresh batches of<br>
>> tomatoes at about 2-3 week intervals through August, giving me<br>
>> fresh tomatoes through Fall, so I have lots of tomato plants in<br>
>> various stages of growth. Lots of work, but I love my fresh<br>
>> vegetables almost as much as I love growing them :) Allen B.<br>
><br>
>> -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama<br>
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