The Endzone Garden Thread

[82_VOL_83]

Mine are all less than a foot tall. Lol

They grow like weeds.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Mine was about 3 ft tall when I planted it.

My dad has one outside Huntsville that is a cutting off a S. GA tree. Its 30 this year.

I have heard that trees from a nursery are often not from here and not hardly enough to survive the weather

 

[Orangeslice13]

They grow like weeds.

The grandparents tree is easily 12 feet tall and 12 feet around.
These trees could be large eventually

 

[malinoisvol]

I have planted the fig trees.
I believe it will probably be 5 years before I get figs.

I love figs! Dad's started out as a small transplant from Arky and now takes up about a 20'x50' area and are about 15' tall. It started dieing a few years ago and then BAM! It's back. Gotta beat the birds and the bees to them.

 

[VolNExile]

I know three people (city dwellers) with fig trees. Every one of the trees is planted smack-dab next to the foundations of their houses - we’re talking one or two feet. And 100-year-old foundations don’t need any additional challenges!

 

[Tin Man]

I know three people (city dwellers) with fig trees. Every one of the trees is planted smack-dab next to the foundations of their houses - we’re talking one or two feet. And 100-year-old foundations don’t need any additional challenges!

This.

 

[Juanita]

 

[Juanita]

The trees are an itch. But my aunt made the best fig preserves. Ever. Still looking for something comparable.

 

[Orangeslice13]

The trees are an itch. But my aunt made the best fig preserves. Ever. Still looking for something comparable.

If you live anywhere near chattanooga there’s a place called Bryden’s market out past Chester frost park. They sell vegetables and whatnot. They also sell products made on the mountain by the Amish. Fig preserves being one of them.

 

[GVF]

I've read that growing figs around the area has a pretty good success rate if they have northern protection. I've been wanting to plant one. The one at hte house in GA was well above hte 2nd floor deck. I gues you can keep them pruned down, but if you let them go, it's like a magnolia one day.

 

[malinoisvol]

The trees are an itch. But my aunt made the best fig preserves. Ever. Still looking for something comparable.

My Grandmother used to can anything and everything. One year she mixed a batch of figs and cantaloupe. Deer Lawd! That was good!

 

[Behr]

My peppers are still producing and blooming.

I planted my new ones Saturday.
White devils tongue
Red Carolina Reaper
Peach Carolina Reaper
Trinidad Viper
Trinidad Scorpion
Scorpion Douglah

 

[Behr]

 

[Behr]

Top pic is Dragons Breath, second is Chocolate moruga Scorpion and the last is the Orange Copenhagen Ghost.

 

[VolNExile]

Top pic is Dragons Breath, second is Chocolate moruga Scorpion and the last is the Orange Copenhagen Ghost.

I’ll bet you don’t have to worry about any critters gnawing on your plants!

 

[Behr]

Nope. Lol.

 

[Behr]

It really is amazing the heat of these things. I mean the stages and levels of heat that you go through with just a tiny amount is an experience.

 

[GVF]

My peppers are still producing and blooming.

I planted my new ones Saturday.
White devils tongue
Red Carolina Reaper
Peach Carolina Reaper
Trinidad Viper
Trinidad Scorpion
Scorpion Douglah

Good Lord Man!!!!!

 

[GVF]

I tell you what is frustrating. I've got seed pots. I've got good starter soil. I've got seeds. I cannot find the plant labels/tags to keep my pottings straight. On a mission so I can get my seed started. Ugh!

 

[VolNExile]

I tell you what is frustrating. I've got seed pots. I've got good starter soil. I've got seeds. I cannot find the plant labels/tags to keep my pottings straight. On a mission so I can get my seed started. Ugh!

Are they already sold out at garden centers? Yikes! I hope I have enough (I’m starting seeds for a plant sale in early May.)

Maybe limp along with wooden popsicle sticks/ tongue depressors until you can find the real things?

 

[GVF]

Are they already sold out at garden centers? Yikes! I hope I have enough (I’m starting seeds for a plant sale in early May.)

Maybe limp along with wooden popsicle sticks/ tongue depressors until you can find the real things?

Been to Ace, Walmart, and Lowe's so far. Got a couple more local joints to hit up. Lowe's is helpless. The item shows in stock on Aisle 4....Aisle 4 is the paint aisle for crying out loud.

Maybe a florist would have them ??

 

[Behr]

 

[VolNExile]

Been to Ace, Walmart, and Lowe's so far. Got a couple more local joints to hit up. Lowe's is helpless. The item shows in stock on Aisle 4....Aisle 4 is the paint aisle for crying out loud.

Maybe a florist would have them ??

I use these and love them. The surface is a bit roughened, not slick, and the ink holds better. I think there’s a 4” as well.

I buy them at a local independent garden center, not Big Box stores (can never find them), and I’m pretty sure I bought them on Amazon in spring 2020, when they had vanished from stores.

 

[GVF]

I use these and love them. The surface is a bit roughened, not slick, and the ink holds better. I think there’s a 4” as well.

I buy them at a local independent garden center, not Big Box stores (can never find them), and I’m pretty sure I bought them on Amazon in spring 2020, when they had vanished from stores.

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Finally found these, confirmed in stock at my local TSC. Will be headed there at lunch.

 

[Juanita]

I always used a tongue depressor.