Hello Comrade Gardeners, I wanted to make a thread where anyone could ask some quick questions regarding their gardening! Could be a simple troubleshoot question, or a quick query regarding composting, whatever it is as long as it's gardening!
I'm growing some lemon and pomegranate trees for fun. I'd like to guidance about pruning these young seedlings. Some of them are branching and I think I want to prune the branches. Reason being I want them to get taller before branching. I don't want lemon and pomegranate bushes lol.
Anyone got tips on young tree pruning? 🌳🌳🌳
I havnt ever done this with lemon or pomegranate but timing and technique are very important.
Cutting at an angle so that water doesnt pool on the cut end causing rot is important.
Timing as you dont want to cause undue stress during a crucial time. I pruned my plum & pears during winter dormancy.
Mine were full growth so I pruned branches that were out of reach when standing on the ground as well as any intersecting branches and any below the lowest/thickest branches.
Next year will be my first full season and the first time I approach planting productive plants with any sort of experience on my side. I feel like it is pretty clear that I will probably need a calendar/planning app specifically geared toward gardening to keep me harvesting and planting/re-planting on schedule:
What do you all use to help execute a highly structured and punctual garden?
Also other gardening application recommendations are welcome
I just moved out of a dense city the middle of nowhere and I have a large barren area in my back yard. It is all messed up with broken glass, stones and not much grows around here wild. I'm on the side of a mountain in a dry climate.
Considering it is march I think I should get started but I have never tried before. Not sure where to even start. Didn't the Andean people grow potatoes on the sides of dry mountains? My favorite food is potato, does anyone have guides to growing potatoes in containers?
Do you have any materials on/around the property that could be recycled as a container but not leech into the soil? I used recycled wood to build a smallish raised bed that I did fingerling potatoes in.
I've been really curious to try this method:
Cultivating container potatoes in compost bin soil is another commonly used garden technique. A small amount of compost is placed in the bottom of the container, then the seed potatoes are planted. As the potatoes grow, more compost is periodically layered with straw in the container. Slowly adding compost prevents those large bursts of nutrients which can cause green growth spikes and reduce tuber production.
I would probably but a bit of gardening soil with the seed potatoes then layer the compost, this article has a nice concise article on potatoes in containers.
Cool, this is pretty close to what I've been reading I'll give it a shot. There is not much on hand but I have access and means to get materials that make sense, but, do not really want to spend more than I would reap and I am not committed to this place for more than a year. I bet I can get those containers pretty easily though or burlap.
