Lane County Extension Service Master Gardener John Fischer here with KLCC’s Good Gardening. Nothing teaches me more about my garden than learning something I know for sure isn’t true. Having proof that you need to reconsider things is a fantastic method to get a brand-new understanding of how your garden grows.A couple of examples will assist, and one will provide folks with dubious conditions new hope. I talked already about how my volunteer, and shop bought potatoes gave bigger crops than my planted seed potatoes. It occurred once again this year.But the harvest that broke whatever I have actually known -and taught – for years came from a shade grown peach tree. 8 to ten hours of sun is the suggestion for fruit trees, however a peach tree growing at Sponsors, where I help with a garden, has actually been significantly shaded by an ornamental next-door neighbor. It got 4 hours of sun this year – in the early morning just – and produced a big crop of healthy peaches. And they ripened 2 weeks behind the bright area peaches, so we had a prolonged harvest.Of course this is
one tree, but it made me question the advice I have actually offered to individuals who want fruit trees, however do not get “sufficient”sun. And it should make you think about the advice you get, not treat it as gospel, and constantly, always experiment to see what works best for you.I had wondered for several years why 2 or 3 beets would sprout best next to each other, and after that there would be a space of a foot before the next plant. I lastly found out that a beet seed is a seed ball – with 3 to five seeds in it, so multiple strategies are the standard, not the result of bad planting by me. Gathering one early often lets the other seedling take off, thinning is another choice, or you can buy single grow table beet seeds in a number of varieties. A lot of sugar beets have been bred -not genetically customized – to produce just one plant.Live and discover how little you know.
Source: https://www.klcc.org/show/good-gardening/2022-10-03/good-gardening-wrong-again