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By paleohunter on Jan 31, 2024 10:21 AM, concerning plant: Carrot (Daucus carota var. sativus 'Mokum')

YOU WANT HOME GROWN CARROTS...

At 48 days to maturity, Mokum is a tasty, early season treat for the home grower. You probably won't see it at your grocer as it is best eaten fresh and fragile tops mean it must be hand harvested, unlike machine harvested commercial production carrots which are bred for longer storage.

According to the UGA Crop Profile for Carrots in Georgia, "nearly all commercial growers apply dichloropropene before planting, an herbicide at planting, and herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides during the season... Most growers have tractors with an enclosed cab," to protect themselves from chemical exposure during commercial carrot growing.

"A typical carrot operation would apply pesticide to their carrot fields up to 15 times per season. Nearly all growers use insecticides at planting to manage soil pests. Growers regularly apply foliar insecticide
to control pests.

Insecticides. Nearly all commercial carrots are treated with insecticides.
● Diazinon. Nearly all growers apply diazinon (3-4 lb a.i./acre) at planting.
● Foliar insecticides. About 20% of the carrot acreage is treated with one application of a pyrethroid (e.g. cyfluthrin (0.025 0.044 lb a.i./acre) or endosulfan (0.5-1.0 lb a.i./acre). The exact pesticide will depend on the foliar pests involved and the relative prices of the products.

Carrot growers typically apply herbicides at planting and during the season to control weeds.
Herbicides.
● Trifluralin. Growers typically apply trifluralin (0.5-0.75 lb a.i./acre) at planting.
● Linuron. Growers typically apply three applications of linuron (0.5-1.5 lb a.i./acre), one at
planting and 1-2 more during the season.

Growers commonly use fungicide at planting and may apply a nematicide.

Fungicides. Fungicides are critical for carrot production in Georgia. Growers typically apply fungicides
on a 7-14 day schedule, depending on disease pressure and weather conditions favoring disease
outbreaks. A typical spray schedule would include 9-13 applications.
● Chlorothalonil: very important for management of diseases and for preventing/delaying disease
resistance to other products. Nearly all growers use chlorothalonil in their fungicide rotation.
Chlorothalonil (1.0-1.5 lb a.i./acre) is typically applied 6-9 times per season.
● Azoxystrobin: commonly used in rotation with chlorothalonil. Azoxystrobin (0.15-0.3 lb a.i./
acre) is typically applied 2-3 times per season.
● Iprodione: commonly used in rotation with chlorothalonil. Iprodione (0.5-1.0 lb a.i./acre) is
typically applied 2-3 times per season.
● Dichloropropene: nearly all commercial acreage is treated with dichloropropene (2.6-21.2 oz
formulated material/100 ft row)."

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By paleohunter on Jan 29, 2024 5:57 PM, concerning plant: Turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa 'Gold Ball')

A RUTABAGA BY ANY OTHER NAME...

If you like rutabagas, you'll love this turnip.

Gold Ball Turnip (aka Robertson's Golden Stone, Orange Globe).

In the spring of 1849, The Stirling Observer, Stirling, Scotland, called Robertson's New Golden Stone "the best Garden Yellow Turnip." By that fall, the Gold Ball turnips were being shown at horticultural exhibitions across the UK. In 1851, a tenant farmer for the Marquess of Beadalbane grew a competition Gold Ball turnip weighing 17 1/2 pounds. By 1854 the cultivar was widely available from seedsmen.

"Robertson's Golden Stone. - This new and excellent variety has only recently come into general field culture. It has a fine globular shape, and is of a deep orange yellow throughout, and has little or no green tinge on the top. It is not a good keeping turnip, but, at the present, it is the best known variety for late sowing."

The Bristol Mirror said yellow turnips were a taste with more general appeal in Scotland and France than in England.

In France, the horticulturalists Vilmorin & Andrieux in their great work Description Des Plantes Potagère (1856) called it Boule D'Or - Gold Ball - and that is the name that has come down to us today.
By 1856, Gold Ball turnips were being exhibited at horticultural expositions in the U.S.

Charlwood & Cummins, the most extensive seed dealers in London sent seed to the U.S. Patent Office for the turnip in 1855, under the name Golden Ball. The U.S. Commissioner of Patents distributed seeds to farmers in every State of the Union to experiment with and report back to the Patent Office of their success. The seeds were to be sown broadcast at the appropriate time for the locale. The land should be a light sandy or gravelly loam, freshly manured, if necessary, with well rotted farmyard dung, or "yarded," by cattle or sheep, or by the addition of guano, bone-dust, or superphosphate of lime. Land newly cleared or burnt over, or old pasture ground ploughed two or three times in the course of the summer, and the latter fertilized by wood ashes, will often produce and excellent yield. A farmer in Assonet, MA who received seed from the Patent Office ranked Gold Ball 13th out of 26 turnip varieties he trialed that year, producing 440 bushels of roots and 6400 pounds of tops per acre.

The seed was soon available from American seedsmen. An ad in The Alexandria Gazette, 03 April 1856 edition read "New and rare seeds, imported direct from Europe by the subscribers, consisting of Robertson's Golden Ball Turnip...received and for sale by Henry Cook & Co."

"Decidedly the finest - formed and richest coloured yellow that appears in the Collection is, however, Robertson's golden stone, a variety introduced in the field practice of the last two or three years, by Mr. Robertson, near Paisley, and extensively made known, in the spring of 1850, by Mr. Fyfe, Editor of the Scottish Agricultural Journal. In garden culture, the golden stone had been distinguished by the remarkable smallness of its tap-root, and the firmness of its neck - the tap-root being, in fact, no thicker than the tail of a mouse. It was, also, remarkably symmetrical, but by no means a large bulb, with an eminently smooth bright orange skin; but in field growth it has been found to expand immensely in size, without parting with its finer characteristics. It seems peculiarly adapted for an autumn or stubble turnip."

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By farmerdill on Jan 27, 2024 8:53 PM, concerning plant: Eggplant (Solanum melongena 'Ghost Story')

White elongated oval fruit is smooth, firm, and heavy. It has a refined small cap that is usually spineless. Flesh is dense, bright white, and slow to develop seeds. Excellent early and continuous yields. 63 days to maturity.

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By farmerdill on Jan 27, 2024 8:40 PM, concerning plant: Eggplant (Solanum melongena 'Little Prince')

A small oval medium purple Indian type fruit on a stocky 3 foot plant. Fruit set in clusters of 2-3.

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By nmumpton on Jan 27, 2024 9:34 AM, concerning plant: Desert Globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)

Other than the standard orange the flowers come in pink, red, white, and apricot.

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By adknative on Jan 27, 2024 6:32 AM, concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Little Mucha Minto')

One of only (2) daylilies I have lost over many years (here in zone 3) that I believe failed to survive due to lack of cold hardiness. Treated it precisely the same as all others coming from a southern garden: planted in spring (about an inch deeper than northern garden suppliers), and mulched it well. It struggled to adapt even over our short, cool summer and did not survive its first winter here. Would not recommend for cold climate gardens.

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By SunriseSide on Jan 26, 2024 3:49 PM, concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Benchmark')

for parentage of Benchmark, see
'Daylily Journal' Vol 50 No.1 p 37
"TABLE I
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF
THE MUNSON TETRAPLOID PROGRAM"

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By scweethart on Jan 25, 2024 7:41 PM, concerning plant: Ghost Pepper (Capsicum chinense)

I have Habanero seed from Southern Exposure See Exchange and they are marked Capsicum Chinense which is ghost pepper in this database. Are these technically the same pepper or is my packet have a mistake?

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By CiCi on Jan 25, 2024 2:40 PM, concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Walter Jablonski')

While Walter Jablonski may not be the most beautiful daylily in a garden, it is a wonderful daylily. I wanted something different and have not had a year yet to disappoint. Walter Jablonski is a very prolific bloomer and I always look forward to an abundance of flowers. I truly enjoy the rich color and deep veining.

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By KellyGreen on Jan 24, 2024 8:52 AM, concerning plant: Althea (Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana')

We have two 'Dianas' in MD, zone 7a. They are beasts. Or neighbor was unhappy with how large they'd become, so we chopped one back to 2.5' in June - wrong timing, wrong technique. After a month's recovery, it started producing huge blossoms. It's a great plant: so robust with gorgeous flowers at a time when most of the garden has already peaked. They haven't produced any seedlings to date,

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By adknative on Jan 24, 2024 7:06 AM, concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Yankee Pinstripes')

'Yankee Pinstripes' is noted as blooming early midseason. 2023 was the first year for it in my zone 3 gardens and the FFE was on 24 Jul ... it was still flowering steadily on the 10th of September. That is a minimum of eight weeks of buds and blooms ... not listed as reblooming, but I think it must have sent up rebloom scapes. (?) I will be watching for that in the coming seasons.

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By adknative on Jan 23, 2024 12:47 PM, concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Eviction Notice')

I have noticed that 'Eviction Notice' has more of a raspberry pink tone earlier in the day than later on. The colour does not 'change' so much as it seems to deepen slightly towards the red end of the spectrum by afternoon, particularly on days with a lot of sun.

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By patrick1958 on Jan 22, 2024 11:05 PM, concerning plant: Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera truncata 'Peaches & Cream')

I have one in a pot and it is 47 years old.

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By adknative on Jan 22, 2024 6:01 AM, concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Singing in the Wind')

'Singing in the Wind' is registered as very late and I will attest to that, as it blooms well here in mid-September. Although there does not seem to be a category for daylilies whose buds survive frost well, 'Singing in the Wind' will continue to bloom after we begin hitting nights that drop below freezing. For northern gardeners who want to extend the season of blooms, I would recommend this daylily for its beauty and its hardy nature. And, yes - it's fragrant.

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By paleohunter on Jan 21, 2024 3:56 PM, concerning plant: Winter Squash (Cucurbita maxima 'Pink Banana')

Good keeper. Not as flavorful as some other winter squashes.

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By Hortaholic on Jan 17, 2024 11:21 PM, concerning plant: Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana)

Planting Callery pear trees is now banned in several states! The ban in Ohio went into effect in 2023.

The bans apply to all varieties of Callery pear including 'Bradford', 'Cleveland Select', 'Aristocrat' and any other kinds, named or unnamed.

Once considered highly desirable ornamentals, the article below explains how their seeds have been carried by birds into wild areas, where the seedlings have caused ecological havoc.

Please spread the word to anyone who has one of these trees that they would be doing the environment a huge favor by removing it.

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By Fantasma on Jan 13, 2024 11:20 PM, concerning plant: Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus 'Bottle Rocket')

Seeds are semi difficult to germinate and require little moisture and consistent heat to germinate indoors (do not germinate in field). Very productive plants. Good disease resistance. Very sweet fruit (brix reading of 12.1 average) with dark rind and red flesh. Skin is somewhat thin compared to heirloom varieties. Plants produce 4-5 fruits per plant with an average weight of around 15 - 20 pounds. Tolerates heat well with adequate watering once transplanted. Fruit stores well for upwards of 2 months once harvested with little deterioration in flavor and quality.

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By LoriMT on Jan 13, 2024 4:37 PM, concerning plant: Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Sungold')

I have grown Sungold tomatoes for several seasons in my zone 8a north Georgia garden. These are dependably some of the earliest cherry tomatoes I harvest. The flavor is delicious and the yield is good early in the season. As the heat and humidity and summer rains hit, this tomato succumbs to splitting and disease pressures.

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By LoriMT on Jan 13, 2024 4:30 PM, concerning plant: Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Dr. Carolyn')

I have grown Dr. Carolyn in my zone 8a north Georgia garden for 2 years. It is a tasty tomato, nicely round, larger size cherry tomato. It is more a pale ivory color, not really yellow, making it a nice addition to a carton of mixed color cherry tomatoes. It succumbs to some disease pressure and it does not last through brutal August heat and humidity.

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By lainskee27 on Jan 11, 2024 7:28 PM, concerning plant: Tropical Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'June's Joy')

My brother in law created this flower and named it after his wife. He also created others naming them after family members.

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