Crop 255 of Flowering Shrub Farm Subscriber Only Picture Newsletter;
November 29, 2015
I change the days date to the current one whenever I edit the page or add new pictures (bookmark this page so you can revisit each week to see what we have added). When ever I am in the Nursery or doing my daily chores I take pictures and add them here with comments. Click on the picture and it may open a larger version with more detail.
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I spend a bunch of time each day going over in my head how I can improve how I propagate and grow the roses we will sell next summer. Then, every morning I spend at least an hour editing this page and others usually changing what I said yesterday because once I read it back it doesn't say what I want it to say. I add lots of pictures saved as the month and day showing work that remains to be done this month to prepare for winter. We are still overhauling our mist propagation facility beyond the red door (check out the pictures below that I took in February at the State University of NY at Cobleskill of their misting bench). I am rewriting "What we do and when we do it!" (linked at bottom of page), my roseraie page and my rosebuy page using pictures from the newsletter.
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Angle Iron benches with expanded metal tops, waterproof styrafoam on top, heating cables above the foam but buried in sand (so we can maintain a steady bottom heat) covered in weed mat. An electronic leaf turns overhead mist off and on. Ours will be very much like it except that ours will be in an old wooden structure lined on the inside with thermaglass (shown below on November 24) half way up the windows (so we can still open and close them) and with clear shower curtains hanging from the ceiling (you can see shower curtains in the picture above left). Check for pictures of the propagation area here throughout winter as we work on it.
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Roses in large pots on drip line we have been taking cuttings from all summer will now be stored for the winter pot in pot (next spring sometime they will be returned to the drip line). As I take cuttings I make a note in my disease resistant rose catalog similar to "(14greenhouse, 7/15/15)" which means I took 14 cuttings to send to the greenhouse on July 15, 2015. I ordered 4 additional own root Autumn Damask Roses from a competitor for $125 so that I can take twice as many cuttings (two will be planted in 7 gallon pots and two more placed in the ground).
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I sent out around 1200 rose cuttings to be rooted this year at a contract greenhouse, I should get them back in spring of 2016 at which time I will pot them up in one gallon pots and mark the year potted and what variety I suspect them to be on the side of the pot with a paint pen (I took another thousand cuttings to stick in house). In the first year I will feed them and cut them back regularly so that their roots grow to fill the pot. In the second year I will feed them with bloom buster trying to get them to flower so I can stick a price sticker to the pot near the variety name and take a picture so it might be purchased. I rewrite my rosebuy page regularly taking hints I receive from customers via email, check it out and if your confused let me know.
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/rosebuy.htm
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Curt bringing roses in from the drip line to place pot in pot. The house at two Pleasant where we grow most of our plants in the field.
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Lilacs to be divided as of November 14 are set up along a path near the house at 2 Pleasant. Front porch as of the 16th you might compare foliage with earlier picture 10 pictures or so below here.
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3 sheets of thermaglass we will use on walls near mist bench. Looking through the expanded metal top at one gallon potted own root roses in in the cold box (when it gets colder we will insert poison baits and cover with white plastic.
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Often I take pictures that show work that has to be done, save it in advance of the date, then over-write the picture when the date arrives showing the work has been done or other work that remains.
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On the front porch you can see the sign and a weather proof box to hold letters describing what the flowering shrub farm does with phone numbers, email, etc. The access to the fields shows if we have access being blocked by snow much of the year.
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I have several 'Harisons Yellow' stool layered in 45 gallon pots. They may produce several rooted layers every couple years.
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Espalier trained fruit trees that have not sold in the last 5 years planted near the drip line trained onto bamboo attached between two stakes and used to grow fruit. The Pears alternate between Barlet and Bosc every 6 feet. The apples alternate between Stayman Winesap and Liberty every 6 feet.
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We are training the limbs onto bamboo tied to stakes.
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Old trees trained to espalier but not sold get planted along the edge of the drip lines. We alternate back and forth between cross pollinators, each trr aproximately six feet apart. Treated stakes will be driven into the ground on each side with bamboo sticks tied across as the wires onto which we will train the trees. If we dont sell the trees we can eat the apples and subscribers to this newsletter will see how the training goes.
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/espalier.htm
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Griffy is a rescue we took in. Removing maple trees from the 'Fantin Latour'. This 'Fantin Latour' is much bigger than most (look at it in bloom with 'New Dawn' to the left) as it is given support by espalier trained apple trees.
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Hibiscus planted in a raised bed. Jacking up an apple tree usiing a Lolly Column.
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So I planted a Cabbage rose I bought from a competitor that was in a 1 gallon pot. Next year I'll take another picture to compare its growth rate with.
About the ALL-PICTURE-NEWSLETTER by andyvancleve
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