The Endzone Garden Thread

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Beautiful! I’m out on the deck with my coffee, staring at 8 thornless black raspberry plants, pondering what to do with them.

How did you build your raspberry trellis? Or did you just run them up and existing fence?
 
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VolNExile said:
Beautiful! I’m out on the deck with my coffee, staring at 8 thornless black raspberry plants, pondering what to do with them.

How did you build your raspberry trellis? Or did you just run them up and existing fence?
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I ran wire down an existing wood fence and I’m training them on that wire
 
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Here’s the new fire pit area where the raised beds once were.
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VolNExile said:
How long ago did you set out the blackberries? Curious how long you had to wait.
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2 years ago I transplanted JayBird’s blackberries. They’re 50 years of breeding. Fortunately they all survived.
You should get blackberries by year 2. And every year after that.
if you want a breakdown of what to do then let me know
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
2 years ago I transplanted JayBird’s blackberries. They’re 50 years of breeding. Fortunately they all survived.
You should get blackberries by year 2. And every year after that.
if you want a breakdown of what to do then let me know
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I would like a breakdown again also! And a cutting or 2 when you can spare them.

Anyone growing bamboo?
 
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Saw the first big dragonfly of the season when I was mowing the lawn yesterday. It came right up to my face. My ~900 sq ft patch of fescue is sprouting. I watered it today despite the calls of tree frogs. Their prediction of rain hasn’t materialized in any appreciable quantity these past couple of days. Plantings in the vegetable garden are happy excepting the sunflowers. Two of the early plants were taken out by le misterioso. I’m starting replacements in cups on my screened porch where they’ll get morning sun.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
I would like a breakdown again also! And a cutting or 2 when you can spare them.

Anyone growing bamboo?
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No problem Broham

-at the end of picking Season (7/15 ish) cut errthing down to about 6 inches tall.
-in the fall when leaves fall off cut 4inches off all new growth.
Blackberries produce on year two. So this is next year’s fruit bearing stims.
-in the spring keep stims At this length. This will cause the plant to put its energy into the berries.
-pick big ass berries in July then cut it all down.
-repeat.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
No problem Broham

-at the end of picking Season (7/15 ish) cut errthing down to about 6 inches tall.
-in the fall when leaves fall off cut 4inches off all new growth.
Blackberries produce on year two. So this is next year’s fruit bearing stims.
-in the spring keep stims At this length. This will cause the plant to put its energy into the berries.
-pick big ass berries in July then cut it all down.
-repeat.
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Do you know which variety you have? Just curious. I have Triple Crown, and I don't have a history on them. Apparently Soil and Water passed extras from a giveaway on to Extension Gardening, where mine were grown on. I guess they were using them for slope stabilization or something. So I don't have that "they always turn ripe right before MeeMaw's birthday, and we made blackberry preserves together" etc.
 
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VolNExile said:
Do you know which variety you have? Just curious. I have Triple Crown, and I don't have a history on them. Apparently Soil and Water passed extras from a giveaway on to Extension Gardening, where mine were grown on. I guess they were using them for slope stabilization or something. So I don't have that "they always turn ripe right before MeeMaw's birthday, and we made blackberry preserves together" etc.
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Mine are a cross of 3 varieties that my grandfather took great care to breed. The names of those varieties have been lost to history. When my dad was about 50 years old he transferred some to his house my grandfather was getting sick and my father didn’t want them lost to history. I did the same when my father was getting sick. I really wish I’d listened to my grandfather as a kid because now I’d really like to know their history. I will tell you that when the red women cans jam from these or we just eat them, they taste very different than the store bought. I don’t really know how to explain it but there’s a definite sharpness to these than makes them different than anything else I’ve had.
Needless to say I’m super excited for these. This will be the first real crop of them in about 8-10 years as JayBird just got to where he could not keep things up the last years.
I wish I’d had done a better job helping out.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Mine are a cross of 3 varieties that my grandfather took great care to breed. The names of those varieties have been lost to history. When my dad was about 50 years old he transferred some to his house my grandfather was getting sick and my father didn’t want them lost to history. I did the same when my father was getting sick. I really wish I’d listened to my grandfather as a kid because now I’d really like to know their history. I will tell you that when the red women cans jam from these or we just eat them, they taste very different than the store bought. I don’t really know how to explain it but there’s a definite sharpness to these than makes them different than anything else I’ve had.
Needless to say I’m super excited for these. This will be the first real crop of them in about 8-10 years as JayBird just got to where he could not keep things up the last years.
I wish I’d had done a better job helping out.
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I failed to move a flowering almond from my grandmother’s yard in Memphis when I changed houses in Knoxville. I still feel a little sick about that.
 
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Well, my second seed cup planting in the greenhouse has yet to yield any germination. So far, only have brussels and chinese brocoli growing in greenhouse. Garden should be tilled next day or so. today if I get lucky. Tending the bought tomatoes well so they eill be healthy for transplant. Broke down and bought a heat mat and a tray of those jiffy pot discs and got the supplemental tomatoes and sweet peppers and okra variety I really wanted to grow on the heat mat. My step-son says his seeds normally germinate within 7 days on his heat mat. I suppose I should have replaced the seeding soil for the 2nd attempt. Busy busy busy. Fianlly defeated my mower and got it running for the season. One load of mulch in the beds, and a flat of flowers planted. And trying to get kitchen remodel completed. About 1/3 of the way complete and not going fast. Plus two jobs.
 
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GVF said:
Well, my second seed cup planting in the greenhouse has yet to yield any germination. So far, only have brussels and chinese brocoli growing in greenhouse. Garden should be tilled next day or so. today if I get lucky. Tending the bought tomatoes well so they eill be healthy for transplant. Broke down and bought a heat mat and a tray of those jiffy pot discs and got the supplemental tomatoes and sweet peppers and okra variety I really wanted to grow on the heat mat. My step-son says his seeds normally germinate within 7 days on his heat mat. I suppose I should have replaced the seeding soil for the 2nd attempt. Busy busy busy. Fianlly defeated my mower and got it running for the season. One load of mulch in the beds, and a flat of flowers planted. And trying to get kitchen remodel completed. About 1/3 of the way complete and not going fast. Plus two jobs.
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Whew!

I wouldn’t wish your germination fails on anyone, but your earlier mention of your trip to the Amish market for replacements inspired me to do the same. (Local family-run retail called Jesse Israel.) Still stubbornly restarting the peppers from seed, as they aren’t common retail varieties, and peppers can go in latish.

I managed to get mostly heirloom tomatoes plus a few hybrids and a cherry, woohoo!
Red Brandywine
Cherokee Purple (never admit defeat!)
Black Krim
Hillbilly
Sunny Boy (hybrid)
Mountain Merit x4 (dz-resistant hybrid)
Sunsugar (cherry)

The Mountain Merits only came in a 4-pack, so I’m back to 10 plants, dammit. At least they’re determinates.
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VolNExile said:
Whew!

I wouldn’t wish your germination fails on anyone, but your earlier mention of your trip to the Amish market for replacements inspired me to do the same. (Local family-run retail called Jesse Israel.) Still stubbornly restarting the peppers from seed, as they aren’t common retail varieties, and peppers can go in latish.

I managed to get mostly heirloom tomatoes plus a few hybrids and a cherry, woohoo!
Red Brandywine
Cherokee Purple (never admit defeat!)
Black Krim
Hillbilly
Sunny Boy (hybrid)
Mountain Merit x4 (dz-resistant hybrid)
Sunsugar (cherry)

The Mountain Merits only came in a 4-pack, so I’m back to 10 plants, dammit. At least they’re determinates.
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Good varieties. Should get some good materflavers. If you've never grown the sunsugar you'll eat it like candy right off the plant. All the Mountain varieties come from my step sons former employer. They were flavor developed as an open pollinated hybrid for the home gardener with commercial plant advantages. I've never turned down a slice of Better Boy. It's the home garden hybrid standard with old fashioned flavor and determinate convenience. But, the Mountain varieties may have a bit more of the lower acid sweet infusion of heirlooms. Mountains will have a longer season harvest like an heirloom as well. Cherokee Purple are fabulous, but I've always found them not as easy to grow as they are billed.
 
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