@VolNExile has taken breaks before. This has been a long one. She’s not only busy with finishing her degree, she’s singing in multiple choruses, volunteering and growing plants for the local extension office, working on landscaping repair work for her church post-hurricane, and raising chickens for the first time. I hope that she comes back to VN one day soon.
My neice and her husband moved to Ashville with the baby. They both work for Waffle House corporate and they asked him to go there and take over a region to square it up. It was a temp ask, but it'd be slim to see them go back to ATL. They love it there and are having a grand time being newbies and getting around. Hope they see a need to dive in and become a part of the community and chip in some where they can help. She's equally adept at decorating and DIY and interior design as she is her job.
Never saw downtown Ashville maybe once. Spent one week a year for 35+ years at church camp in Black Mtn. Did Biltmore a couple times & rafted the river a few times. At the end of the week the teens would go in to the bowling center to kick off the last night of camp and not going to bed when we/they got back to the camp. One year in my 20's, I fell for a girl that was working the camp that summer, and after road tripping to Ocala afterwards with a friend from camp that lived there, I drove back up to Black Mtn to have a date with her hiking over at Chimney Rock where Last of the Mohicans was filmed. Went into downtown on that run. Only time I recall. Been over a good many parts of Western, NC but never really explored Ashville. Even passed thru Hanging Dog on numerous occasions. That was my cut over outside Murphy into the Tellico River. Even did one of those crossovers in a '93 accord one time. lol. Other trips were a LC or Toyo 4x4. Luckily the river was low when I did the accord.
Unless you have graded in some tiered areas, my guess is the slope makes it hard to retain any soil moisture in the hotter and dryer months. Especially slopes that were at one time "modified" so to speak in development or something. The original top soil would be depleted. Not having seen your property that assumption is all relative to what kind of slope we're talking. A gentle or moderate slope could possibly make daming in a small pond feasible. Cutting from the high side and pushing that to the low side to build up a dam with some decent stone mixed in for stability, instead of digging a big hole.
This is not recommended but I know you can trick them if you have an open area. When I used to do nursery propagation we would see hundreds of dragonflies routinely hanging around the black weed barrier cloth. The dragonflies mistake the surface for water & congregate just like they would by a pond. They are known to do this near wet asphalt as well.
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Peaches are an extremely challenge. Every pathogen and insect wants to eat the fruit, leaves, and wood. They can also be finicky with respect to planting zone and such. They're a burden lol.Whelp, this year was sort of a bust. Got a good, but not historical average amount of raspberries this year. Blueberries lost all of their blossoms and got no berries. No idea why. The cherry bushes were too young to keep fruit so hopefully next year. They grey a good amount I’d say with filling out and growing wider/taller about a ft each way. The peaches were the same way. Had quite a bit of flowers and peaches started to grow but fell off very early in the process. Again, I think they are still too young to produce so hopefully next year. However they grew a TON. Filled out really nicely and at least 2 foot taller for one with the other at least 3 feet taller.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how to feed the peach trees and berry/cherry bushes over the winter?
@SoilVol sorry to name drop you here. I read a few weeks ago in the Recruiting Forum Football Chat that you have some peach trees. Care to share any info on care and feeding? I have 1 Contender and 1 Belle of Georgia. I live in East Tennessee in the Alcoa/Maryville area. Thanks in advance
Kind of same. All my fruit/berry trees/bushes are young too. did get some bluberries and soem balckberry and raspberry but not full potential yet. Figs are a year older, but no harvests yet. THink I actually was managing mine wrong in my upper middle TN zone. I've been trying to get them where they don't freeze off. Read they will freeze down for a couple years then toughen up. But also saw one clip for upper reaches of fig production where you do cut htem back every year down to first 2 or 3 nodes then mulch the crap out them for winter and just let them regrow every year. May try that this year.Whelp, this year was sort of a bust. Got a good, but not historical average amount of raspberries this year. Blueberries lost all of their blossoms and got no berries. No idea why. The cherry bushes were too young to keep fruit so hopefully next year. They grey a good amount I’d say with filling out and growing wider/taller about a ft each way. The peaches were the same way. Had quite a bit of flowers and peaches started to grow but fell off very early in the process. Again, I think they are still too young to produce so hopefully next year. However they grew a TON. Filled out really nicely and at least 2 foot taller for one with the other at least 3 feet taller.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how to feed the peach trees and berry/cherry bushes over the winter?
@SoilVol sorry to name drop you here. I read a few weeks ago in the Recruiting Forum Football Chat that you have some peach trees. Care to share any info on care and feeding? I have 1 Contender and 1 Belle of Georgia. I live in East Tennessee in the Alcoa/Maryville area. Thanks in advance
