[ale] Way OT - Gardening

Fri Apr 26 22:51:21 EDT 2013

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Hey Adrya,
	Welcome aboard. If you follow the list you'll find that it can be
pretty colorful in that some of us due tend to go off topic (OT) ie:
beer brewing, the best coffee beans or grinders or brewing machines
(although there are those that would argue that coffee talk is not OT
in that one needs to consume it in order to function in the Linux
world. After all coffee is referred to as Java and isn't JAVA a
language that can also be used on Linux?) as well as politics. Yeah
the OT can be sometimes way out in left field, in fact so far out it's
in the parking lot and not even in the park.

	We do have a wonderfully eclectic group of people that have various
areas and levels of expertise in the IT field to include other OSes.
Just make sure you duck if you bring up a certain proprietary OS :)

	Anyway back to the OT topic of ???? oh crap, I forgot what this
thread is about. Oh yeah just read the subject line. When is the best
time to spray? I've been told that once the white blossoms all fall
that it is too late.

Scott C.


On 04/26/2013 05:52 PM, Adrya Stembridge wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> -Adrya
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Scott Castaline
> <skotchman at gmail.com <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> When and what kind of spray? I was told that one the blooms fall
> off it's too late, also no one could tell me what kind of
> insecticide to use. Oh, Jim they do the same with peaches that have
> fermented on the ground. I didn't think of that analogy though, I
> will this year.
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/26/2013 04:06 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
>> You need to give it a good spraying :) Allen B. -- Allen 
>> Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama
> 
>> ________________________________________ From:
>> ale-bounces at ale.org
> <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>> [ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] on behalf of
> Scott Castaline
>> [skotchman at gmail.com <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>] Sent: Friday,
> April 26, 2013 3:04 PM To:
>> ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org> Subject: Re: [ale] Way OT -
>> Gardening
> 
>> The house we're now renting, has a hybrid fruit tree in back.
>> Our first summer here we didn't know that what it was. All of
>> sudden it seemed it was growing these green fuzz balls. A week or
>> 2 later we saw that they changed colors and found that they were
>> peaches, but there were also nectarines and plums. Most of them
>> the bugs and worms got which attracted the birds. We were soon
>> invaded by birds that would start fighting each other for the bug
>> infested fruit leaving the remains to rot on the patio.
> 
>> Last summer we weren't able to get any of the fruit as everyone
>> had worm holes.
> 
>> Scott C.
> 
> 
>> On 04/26/2013 02:46 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> Yay Food!
> 
>>> I have a batch of the funny brown tomato seeds ready to start 
>>> sprouting. The fruits look odd but are very, very tasty. Grape 
>>> vines are in but not trellised yet (merlot in Georgia will be
>>> a challenge!) and the new fig tree is looking happy. I didn't
>>> get around to splitting out the root runner off the early
>>> blueberry bush (again) this winter and it looks better than the
>>> mother bush. The other 2 blueberries are fruiting out nicely.
> 
>>> I'll probably plant some other stuff soon but I have such
>>> limited full sun it's hard to narrow down the choices. I've
>>> learned my lesson about sugar pie pumpkins - plant those AFTER
>>> July 1 so the squash vine wasp won't get them. We eat pumpkin
>>> pie for breakfast :-) YUM! way better than cheerios, poptarts
>>> or bagels.
> 
>>> Oh. I also planted a cascade hops vine this year :-) I still
>>> need to set up the ling string to the gutter for it. It's got 3
>>> good shoots now at nearly 3 feet up a pole.
> 
>>> The plum tree from 7 years ago has never produced a single
>>> bloom as is likely to get the axe to make room for a dwarf
>>> apple or pear tree. Bummer. It was from a runner off a
>>> relatives plum tree that cranked out 15-25 lbs of red plums
>>> every year. the last apple tree I had got hit by a sudden April
>>> freeze that killed all the leave buds (3 days below 25F will do
>>> that). We had been getting really good cooking/canning apples
>>> from that one. I almost held a memorial service for it.
> 
>>> We no longer get volunteer tomatoes from 8 years ago. We had a 
>>> single plant called "garden candy" that put out a steady
>>> stream of thumb-sized sugar-sweet OMFG!!! tomatoes from June
>>> until frost. The birds hauled off a bunch and those seeds
>>> popped up plants for the next 4 years. The drought finally
>>> stopped all that fun. Very sad now but very happy then. Hard to
>>> collect seeds from it as we ate all before they made it inside.
>>> Not a single one EVER hit a salad :-)
> 
> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Beddingfield, Allen 
>>> <allen at ua.edu <mailto:allen at ua.edu> <mailto:allen at ua.edu
> <mailto:allen at ua.edu>>> wrote:
> 
>>> So, this is about as far off topic as one can stray, but I 
>>> thought I would throw it out here for an afternoon diversion
>>> on this pretty spring day (at least it is a pretty spring day
>>> over here in Alabama :) ) Are any of you into gardening? If so,
>>> what do you plant, and what have you already gotten in the
>>> ground for this season? I start most of my tomatoes, peppers,
>>> eggplants, etc... from seed, and I have them up and almost
>>> ready to set out. I've been tilling during the brief periods
>>> when it has not been raining/too wet from rain, and I haven't
>>> been at work. I'm hoping to get the first round of tomatoes in
>>> the ground in the upcoming week, along with squash, corn, green
>>> beans, cucumbers, and lima beans. I start from seed and set out
>>> fresh batches of tomatoes at about 2-3 week intervals through
>>> August, giving me fresh tomatoes through Fall, so I have lots
>>> of tomato plants in various stages of growth. Lots of work, but
>>> I love my fresh vegetables almost as much as I love growing
>>> them :) Allen B.
> 
>>> -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of
>>> Alabama
> 
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