Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Primacane is getring close to picking.

 

Yes we started last year netting. It was crazy the first year, birds go almost all of them.

 

Guess you’d need tougher stuff for Bears then.

 

12ga Brenneke slugs work great for bears.

 

Next to a nickel.

 

About how long did they take to get ripe? Im not sure how big mine are going to get

 

That’s freaking awesome! My blackberries are just flowering now…

 

Thats great!

 

About a month. But it has been hot and rained a lot, for GA, so it may have sped up the ripening.
On average, we are about 10 degrees warmer than SE KY (have family there), to give an idea.

 

Yep, lots of rain makes them big and plump. Sometimes not as sweet. My bushes are loaded but still a ways from ripe.

 

Ran the tiller shallow through everything now that it’s finally dried out some. Gonna run hiller bedder through corn and beans tomorrow eve with tractor to build furrows back up. Then preen on everything to knock out any weeds germinating. Saves a hoe. That and 5 acres grass cut since yesterday eve. Whooped.

 

I did bird netting over my blueberries and the strawberries.

 

Similar here. Primacane is about 5/8-3/4" diameter

 

I don't know if this is the right thread to be asking these, but I have two questions.

First, at the end of 2022 I hard pruned the snot out of an old rhododendron. Now...I am unsure if this thing will recover.





One branch with a fresh cut, in case that matters:


Any thoughts? I am leaning toward "I killed it", which is fine if that's the case, I'm happy to get another plant in there instead of doing CPR on a headless corpse sort of thing.

Secondly, WTF are these weeds, why do they suck, and is there any trick other than suffer through and get thicker gloves? The gloves I was using yesterday seemed to do a solid 98% of the task, but still got a few nabs through the gloves while pulling them.

 

I'd say.

In my hobbyist opinion it looks like you finished it off. I very much doubt any new growth will come from that.
With any luck some new ones are sprouting in between the stumps.

 

Yeah I think I'm just going to have to rip it out and start with a new one oops.

 

Yep, she is done, Jim, stick a fork into it.
If you trim below buds, there is nothing for the new growth to come from, except for roots. And not all plants come from the roots. If you want to, give it 2 gal (1 capful) of Quickstart and see if anything comes from the roots, if not, it is dead.

 

These work great for wild blackberries, I am sure they will work for those weeds.

Rose Pruning Gloves for Men and Women - Thorn Proof Goatskin Leather Gardening Gloves with Gauntlet (Extra Large, Brown)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K119Q5W

 

I'm a fan of Shrubs and Hosta fillers.
2nd from bottom is a dappled willow shrub I planted 3 yrs ago.
Letting it run wild yet. They can get up to 12', I believe.

Edit: I shouldn't say, "wild". I have a couple branches tied and staked to train.

 

Some kind of thistle. Goats love them

Need this
https://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-Delu...cint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584413750138466