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Comments (6)I do feel for you - how truly awful. You must be beside yourself. Some of my goldies are 14+ years old and the 2 times Ive lost one because of my stupidity (water quality issues) I've been as torn up about it as losing any other beloved pet . Honestly, if I understood then just how aware and friendly and interactive goldfish could be, how long they lived, and what a steep learning curve it was to learn how give them the proper care (and unlearn all the BAD MISINFORMATION people like to give out) I might have chosen to not get them. Have you considered any sort of small pond? I'm already thinking ahead to when I move (3-5 years) and my next fish pond - it will be only about 300 gallons and be stocked with only 3 of my oldest goldies and some small short-lived fish like minnows. Big ponds and koi get a lot of attention, and rightfully so, but I wish more attention and appreciation could be given to small ponds (stocked with appropriate fish species of course). They can be so delightful in their own way....See MoreKilling grass in beds; killing nutgrass anywhere
Comments (2)Nelson: Hope you didn't spend too much time fighting the bermuda this morning. Maybe you won't have to do that again. Enjoyed seeing you yesterday, too. I generally don't use sprays in my garden, but I make exceptions for bermuda-killer and nutgrass-exterminator!...See MoreHow to kill cherry tree suckers without killing tree?
Comments (2)Unless the parent tree was own root the sucker yours came from is the sweet cherry rootstock and not the named cultivar that was presumably grafted onto it. Either the rootstock seedling happens to be a yellow cherry as well or the whole parent tree, including the roots was the yellow cultivar. Sweet cherry is actually a weed species in this region and suckers to form groves on local wooded hillsides, where it even overtakes and overtops the native red alder trees often present in quantity on the same sites. It also crosses with the much less exuberant, native bitter cherry to produce a nearly fruitless, intermediate hybrid called Puget cherry. Some ~tall examples of the latter are conspicuous when in bloom, on undeveloped land between I-5 and Lakeside School (near Seattle). It is usual to have problems with suckering and bony surface roots with plantings of sweet cherries - perhaps all the more so when these are present as rootstocks for Japanese flowering cherries. All you can do is uncover the bases of the suckers and saw them away. If there are horizontal runners that lead back to the original planting follow these back to the parent tree and saw them off at their points of origin, pull the rest up. You don't, of course want to saw off normal roots of the parent tree - just the ones that are suckering runners like aspen trees and running species of bamboos produce. This post was edited by bboy on Sat, Mar 15, 14 at 17:05...See MoreTo kill or not to kill?
Comments (11)Your state? Has an outbreak occurred there? It does look as if your plants are infected with Late Blight, and that's really too bad. We haven't usually had it widespread in the deep South, though I think I read that a few outbreaks had been seen last year. Well, you need to utterly destroy the plants if that's what you have. How did the infection get into your greenhouse? Freezing kills the spores but I'm not sure about other treatments. If you just bag the plants and put them out in the trash, I'd think the spores would get loose in a landfill. I don't think you can cut them back and have new growth occur. Late Blight infects all of the plant. Better to start over with clean soil and clean plants. Call your county agricultural agent to report it and ask for the best way to disinfect the greenhouse. Maybe in some ways, your neighbors should thank you -- your greenhouse probably kept the spores from wafting for miles around your property. It's a terrible disease......See Morequirkyquercus
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