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PaulN/KS:
We had that white stuff in the forecast but now it looks like it'll be just wet stuff.
Those temps in the 20's the last couple nights sure didn't do the apple trees that had blossomed any good tho... :(
Went out and put in a couple rows of lettuce this morning. Need to get to the hippie greenhouse store in North Larryville and get some spinach seed next.
BowEd:
I ordered some purple leaf plum bare root trees to plant yesterday.Should be here by the end of the month.Going to plant them according to directions but would like to see them make it.Any extra advice welcome.
Going to get another pear tree locally around here too.
Some more snow last night.This is 5".Supposed to get another 5" over night.
Grand total of maybe 14" I guess.
WhistlingBadger:
Where are you, Ed? You've told me but I can't remember. We've had decent luck with wild plums and get some fruit about every year. More correctly, the deer get some fruit every year. They seem pretty tough as long as you plant them correctly so they have a fair shot, and give them lots and lots of water.
DC:
Are they grafted Ed? If they are sometimes you can get faster growth by planting them deep so that they can put out roots from above the graft line. Depends why they were grafted, ie dwarfing rootstock.
BowEd:
Whistlingbadger....I'm in southern Iowa.On my profile.We have lots of native brush like plum here.Make lots of jam out of it.I make shoot shafts out of it.Very dense arrow shafts.Top notch shafts.Not hardly ever big enough to get bow staves from it though.
What type of plum have you got there?Your in Colorado right?
This purple leaf plum is called a thundercloud type.Gets 25 to 30 feet tall with pipe like trunks a lot bigger.Up to 4" in diameter and plenty long.The first year I expect to keep it watered every week.A hole twice the size of it's root ball for it to go into over a mound of dirt in hole to spread roots out nicely with compost in there too.
DC....I'm pretty sure they are grafted type but it reccommends to leave grafting point above ground when planting it.It apparently can be restarted with cuttings.These are'nt dwarf type purple leaf plum trees.
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