100% this. Blackberries are rhisomatic which means they can grow back from a tiny bit of leftover root. You need to remove all the roots to get rid of them. Also blackberries take three years to mature so you may have to deal with this for a few years before they are truly gone.
Way off base. To control rhisomatic plants you want to refrain from tilling. They spread easier when you till since you break apart the rhisomes and each piece can create a new plant.. It's one of those things that can really frustrate new gardeners or home owners who don't know about this. This is why you plant rhizomatic plants in raised beds, it's way easier to control them that way.
Yes, but after you till them a second time, before they can pull energy back into the roots it will slowly kill them over time. I’ve just heard of it as a cheaper more efficient way when it’s a large patch since it’s so much soil to remove and replace.
You would think, but in practice, they're very good at regenerating. That's why these, and others like oriental bittersweet and Virgina creeper are so problematic. (I don't know if they're strictly in the same category, but they behave the same.)
Dang, maybe I’ll look up their growth process then, I wonder if they get enough energy from the soil, or if it starts storing energy by the time you see the shoots.
So I did a little reading. For rhizomatic plants, the horizontal vine is actually the stem. It's basically one big plant growing horizontally underground. That's why if you don't pull it all, you're just plucking shoots off the stem. And like most plants, if you cut up the stem and plant it, each section will grow a new plant.
Of course, if you completely shred it into very fine pieces, it won't be able to regrow. But it can come back from fairly small ones. You might think you've gotten it all, but it's just regrowing until it erupts again.
Not everything makes it all the way to the top, but it's pretty epic. I'll have to try to keep the vines on the inside, otherwise harvesting will be a massive pain.
But it’s basically the nutrient strength of your water, I’m adding nutrients to the water I’m giving to my garden and flower plants, so would like to make sure I’m not giving it too much.
I was going to try to make a game like this. Shortly after I started I found that ThinMatrix was working on a game called Home Grown that does most of what I wanted. It's not as in-depth as you're saying, but it might be something you enjoy.
I didn't look very close at the growing medium, so the "spill" looked like deer poops and I imagined a deer was tricked onto water and literally all the shit was scared out of 'em when they fell in
Happy to see your garden was salvaged and improved, but a little sad that my deer theory wasn't accurate
This! The breeder basically keeps two parental lines that they use to make the seeds. Usually they need to do the crossing pollination by hand somehow and make sure that no foreign pollen fertilize the females. There is a great and accessible book about breeding by Carol Deppe if you're interested in breeding plants in generally https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/breed-your-own-vegetable-varieties/
I've also always been wondering about this and other questions before reading that book.
So when the breeder has a hybrid they like, let’s call that AB (F1), they want to grow and sell more of that variety.
So the following year, they will use their reserve population of true AA and BB parents and hand pollinate them. But they still won’t know if the seeds produced will be anything like AB (F1), right? So are those hybrids only available for 1 year or as long as those original seeds remain viable?
Check the roots, you might have pests eating the roots. Could also be too much watering. Hard to say from photos but I definitely think something is wrong below the surface
When it shows signs of over watering, they only need about an inch a week after being established. When they are new or transplanted water daily for a week, than give it an inch of water a week. If it rains an inch, you’re done for week unless it’s stupid dry and starts showing signs of needing water (obviously).
I doubt it's over watering, due to the fact the others look healthy enough. Dig up the root ball of that one, look for pests in there would be my first step to diagnosing.
Every day is probably too much, unless you're in a dry area and they're very well drained. I'd describe watering as saturating, not flooding, and let it dry to the roots, not just the surface, before watering again. Dry, but not completely moistureless bone dry
Also, on hot sunny days, water in the evening or early morning, else you'll just lose a lot of water to sun evaporation.
What’s different? I know we use a lot more wood here in NA since it’s renewable and we have the space. Concretes/morters/grouts also hell on the environment in their own way, and pricey here $300 m3.
Ive never heard of rattlesnake beans, looks fun! I mostly have just been putting perennial fruits in the ground, I've got raspberries, blueberries, Saskatoons, and elderberries. I might start some annuals next year
Well it's hard to say, the early birds got the saskatoons and I only got 2 (two!). They're blueberry like, maybe a bit less tart and a bit creamier(?). Definitely looking forward to meet years crop!
they make 'dirt knives' that work way better than a spade for me most of the time. Especially if you got rocks. I have bent and broken a dozen spades but the dirt knife is like a spade+crowbar you can be rough as you like with it it cuts the dirt!
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