Unless they start yellowing or stunting it's probably just leaf roll, which is just a physiological response to environmental stressors. Could be too hot, too cold, or over/underwatering. If it's a temp thing, it should resolve on its own and shouldn't cause any permanent damage.
If it has been a little cool where you live (or the soil is too wet), it will resolve when the temperatures rise (or vice versa if it's been hot).
Edit: Based on your comment below, I'm guessing this is a result of the heat. Consider shading them.
I do the same thing. I get clean pesticide free straw bales very cheap, about the price of a 6 pack. Straw insulates and helps the beds retain moisture. I use it to hill up the potatoes. Then you can leave it over the winter and in the spring your beds will be so amazingly soft and full of worms. The straw blocks the soil from getting compacted by the rain, and worms will run around loosening the soil.
When you remove the straw it’s halfway rotted. Perfect stuff to make compost with, I like to add my Austrian winter peas to the straw, run them through my lawnmower to chop it all up.
Some people here have said wood chips but you should never put wood chips on vegetable beds. It can be okay around your flower beds but use it sparingly. When wood chips break down they use up the nitrogen in the soil. Straw doesn’t have that effect.
If your goal is more fruit, leave it alone. If you want bigger fruit, thin.
So if you are looking to make cider, you want quantity and would not thin. If you want big juicy apples to attack with your face like a fructose vampire, thin.
How much you thin comes down to how you want to balance quantity and quality.
Makes perfect sense, what about individual branch support? Just use some stakes if it starts getting too saggy? Is any of my apple ms better to do one way or the other?
I’ve got two, maybe I’ll do one each way and see how it goes!
You can do supports different ways, stakes are popular, but you can also use rope to bind back to the base of another branch or two. You can also let nature take it's course and let the strong limbs get stronger while the weak limbs break away and more energy gets allocated to the rest of the fruit.
You would have to look at the characteristics of the variety and decide which way is better for what you are going for.
I should not be able to corner a lone watermelon without witnesses, the animalistic need to feed upon her juicy flesh consumes me, as much I do her. Don't get me wrong, a sour granny with mottled skin is a delight, but the soft flesh of the big juicy melons satiates my being like no other.
Goats will eat everything and still look for more to eat.
Neighbors on both sides of us had goats when I was younger and their backyards were always dry, dirt deserts with only one particular flower they’d never touch because it was poison. Even trees weren’t spared as far as the goat could stand on its hind legs or could pull down.
Agree, looks like a sunflower to me. For OP: do you or one of your neighbors have a bird feeder? We have black oil sunflowers coming up in all kinds of random spots because of our feeders.
I would do this, specifically for pollinators (i.e. honeybees, hummingbirds, butterflies, bats). They co-habitate fairly well and vertebrate pollinators help keep insect pest populations under control.
A nice bonus would be to add a sizeable water feature to encourage dragonfly growth. Of course, this all depends on the geography.
Unfortunately things are not that easy. At least in western europe, if you let a patch of land sit there for decades, it will eventually turn into a forest. While forests are nice, they are not necessarily the most biodiverse places.
Some regular destruction of plants (mowing, animals grazing, etc) is beneficial for biodiversity.
They're great. You'll be surprised how often you'll run to check it after seeing the generic weather and compare them. Mine also isn't in the right place for the wind, but it gets enough I can pretty confidently multiply by a percentage to get the real number. I hope you find yours as interesting as I do.
We already do that, the city has lots of microclimates, can be snowing in one part of the city while others sunbathe, so you can’t trust the weather too much as it’s done at the airport on the other end of the city. We are also in a valley, you’re right though, it’s all hella interesting.
This is the Acu-rite 5-1 with screen. I can’t give any information on other brands, I did some light research to see pricing, then left my wife with get me a fancy one.
The one thing I need to see if this does as was on my potential to do list was see if this is home assistant capable, it does have an app and connects to pc I think, still learning and figuring it out to be honest.
If yes, the final boss should be an asshole horde of like 13 deer that jump over your fence and destroy your shit, despite using cayenne pepper, marigolds, and Irish Spring.
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