Heirloom's A Little Bit Of Everything - 2016 Journal

OlderGrower said:
Sounds like you are keeping yourself pretty busy Heirloom, thats great news. When you mentioned about your blueberry bushes I must confess I was envious, for the life of me, I just can not get mine to grow worth beans, everything else does fine, just not the blueberries.
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Interestingly, sometimes they do really bad when you give them exactly what conventional wisdom dictates.

My bushes came with the property, but I have increase yield already this year (my second crop with them). They are growing in red clay and chert/fractured limestone. PH is neutral, maybe even alkaline a bit. It's a funny thing. Same for the blackberries. So I've just weeded and layered a little bit of garden soil, garden tone, Cascade minerals, Azomite and mulched with hardwood chips. Trying to give the feeder roots something happy to live in.

I had planted raspberries last year. Dug out a hole. Made a nice soil mix. Lightly fertilized and let it sit before planting. Stuck the Rasps in and they just didn't take off. I thought they had died. This spring Raspberry shoots popped up all around the holes where I planted them. They literally crawled out of the nice dirt and into the native, very compact and very rocky clay.

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I confess I'm a bit puzzled and have not figured out the answers as to why they prefer the native. Or why they're all doing so well in 7.0+ PH, though I believe it has something to do with an abundance of a couple nutrients that would otherwise not be as available in neutral or alkaline soil.
 
OlderGrower said:
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You could invite Rifleman to stay with you for say 2 weeks then you would only have 5 half gallon jars by the time he left. Rumor has it that the only time he isn't smoking weed is when he is doing his Accordion Solo's.
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I can't do roscoe. I have two farting dogs already!
 
Heirloom said:
Interestingly, sometimes they do really bad when you give them exactly what conventional wisdom dictates.

My bushes came with the property, but I have increase yield already this year (my second crop with them). They are growing in red clay and chert/fractured limestone. PH is neutral, maybe even alkaline a bit. It's a funny thing. Same for the blackberries. So I've just weeded and layered a little bit of garden soil, garden tone, Cascade minerals, Azomite and mulched with hardwood chips. Trying to give the feeder roots something happy to live in.

I had planted raspberries last year. Dug out a hole. Made a nice soil mix. Lightly fertilized and let it sit before planting. Stuck the Rasps in and they just didn't take off. I thought they had died. This spring Raspberry shoots popped up all around the holes where I planted them. They literally crawled out of the nice dirt and into the native, very compact and very rocky clay.

:confused:

I confess I'm a bit puzzled and have not figured out the answers as to why they prefer the native. Or why they're all doing so well in 7.0+ PH, though I believe it has something to do with an abundance of a couple nutrients that would otherwise not be as available in neutral or alkaline soil.
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Reading this just made me giggle on Mother Nature's behalf. Silly humans, trying to control everything. :laughtwo:
 
Morning Heir, wow bud , things moving along at a pretty good speed around here...good to see. Glad your spirits are up Heir...that's even better to see. Think of you often and your resolve to get better. Cheers to ya sir! ....:high-five::bravo::circle-of-love:
 
Just leaving this for when you wake up bud :joint: we need a coffee smiley...
 
Morning Loom!:passitleft: Headed off to teach the kiddies. Have an awesome day today.
 
Heirloom said:
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Sweet, thanks man.


Hey, all you soil nerds reading this. There is a third installment to the "Teaming with" series by Jeff Lowenfels coming out Jan. 25th 2017...Teaming with Fungi. I noticed it can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com.

:yahoo:
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Oh! Oh! :yahoo: Thanks for the heads up Heirloom. It's one of my goals this year to begin to understand better what goes on below the surface, and his books were my main curriculum. Have you ever seen this one on roots?

Roots!

Good morning, by the way. :hugs: I loaded new info into the dosing thread last night. It was middle-of-the-night posting, so I'm a bit fuzzy yet, but I seem to recall thinking I wanted to alert you in particular to it, though I can't for the life of me remember why. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
I finally finished reading the thread last night and just needed it to digest. Heirloom I want to say thank u for letting me in...thank u for all ur help with my disabled green thumb...I think it's more of a very light green thumb...thank u for taking the time to help me.

I deal with clients on a daily basis that have verious forms of disabilities and the ones that live a better life are those that are independent. They have standby help but do mostly everything on their own. Those clients are happy...content...fulfilled and always live longer.

I am sure as my nursing career moves forward I will be able to help/see/witnesses patients at the start of their live changing event and can speak more on that. Now by the time I get the client they have already been living with their different life for sometime. And the bitter ones are just as bad as the entitled ones.

Keep pushing towards independence but allow ur support team to be ur support when u can't do it.

Let me know if u need some nursing advice and I will lean on u for ur vast knowledge of all things green.
 
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Hey Heir... Hope you're have a blessed day and my day is spectacular.... I'm soooo happy... Look what I got in the mail...:yahoo:....:circle-of-love:
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Walking past... Stops looks.. Wolf whistles :)
 
SweetSue said:
Oh! Oh! :yahoo: Thanks for the heads up Heirloom. It's one of my goals this year to begin to understand better what goes on below the surface, and his books were my main curriculum. Have you ever seen this one on roots?

Roots!

Good morning, by the way. :hugs: I loaded new info into the dosing thread last night. It was middle-of-the-night posting, so I'm a bit fuzzy yet, but I seem to recall thinking I wanted to alert you in particular to it, though I can't for the life of me remember why. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
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Cool! Thanks Sue! I've saved it to read ASAP

I am sooo far behind on reading up on dosing. :bigblush::sorry: I can't seem to get into it, and I know I should.
 
Lilred said:
I finally finished reading the thread last night and just needed it to digest. Heirloom I want to say thank u for letting me in...thank u for all ur help with my disabled green thumb...I think it's more of a very light green thumb...thank u for taking the time to help me.

I deal with clients on a daily basis that have verious forms of disabilities and the ones that live a better life are those that are independent. They have standby help but do mostly everything on their own. Those clients are happy...content...fulfilled and always live longer.

I am sure as my nursing career moves forward I will be able to help/see/witnesses patients at the start of their live changing event and can speak more on that. Now by the time I get the client they have already been living with their different life for sometime. And the bitter ones are just as bad as the entitled ones.

Keep pushing towards independence but allow ur support team to be ur support when u can't do it.

Let me know if u need some nursing advice and I will lean on u for ur vast knowledge of all things green.
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Hi Lilred! Thanks for reading :blushsmile:

You are welcome for any help I can give. As you can imagine, in my daily life I have to constantly ask for help, not a natural state for me. I feel like all I can do is take or be a burden. It's really bad because I know how much work is involved in running this place. It helps me a little, mentally, knowing that I can still do something. I can still give something. I can still be useful in some capacity during this. And it's not only here on 420, but I am able to teach family and even my therapists some gardening.

Had this happened 15 or 20 years ago, I would very likely be more bitter and angry. Don't get me wrong.... I've already wasted too many hours day dreaming of sneaking into the truck drivers house, ripping his leg off and beating him to death with it. I'm furious that I became a texting while driving statistic. However, dwelling on it accomplishes nothing but drag me down. So I try not to entertain it much.

Nice to have a nurse in the house. There are many others on here that might appreciate it too.

:circle-of-love:
 
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