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Nov 9th, 2023 at 12:42 AM
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Mr. James The Gnome Wrangler
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Mr. James The Gnome Wrangler
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I'm trying to decide what I want to do on our property next year; it's steadily been getting warmer and I have the equipment for auto watering everything, but I need to actually sit down and give it some thought... I'm leaning to more food harvesting, the kids want tangerines but our last trees didn't pan out very well... I want to do some blueberry plants around the lower retaining wall but have a lot of afternoon shade (the neighbors have 4 giant spruce trees so the back only gets a couple of hours of direct afternoon sun, but several hours of direct sun in the later evening).
What're your plans looking like?
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Northern Star
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Northern Star
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James, do you plant veggies 'in ground' usually or in pots?
Low bush blueberries and gooseberries will grow in partial shade. There are plenty of others as well I assume but I am just used to what grows in our area.
My plan for next year is to move my strawberries into their own garden space...in between the blueberries shrubs that I moved this Fall. That way my garden area will be all for vegetables. I also want to double my pickling cucumber area as well.
The way the world is going, I think anything one plants is a great idea. It would be a dream to live in an area where I could plant citrus. Did the trees die?
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt. ![[Linked Image from agardenersforum.com]](//www.agardenersforum.com/images/psd/sunny.jpg)
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Patriot
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Patriot
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James, what is your deer population because I can't keep blueberry bushes, even covered, because of deer. I don't have new plans for next season except to plant potatoes in a gigantic compost area where I threw what I thought was a dead rosemary bush last summer and the thing overwintered and is now big and beautiful  No water, no turning of the compost area, nothing.
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Mr. James The Gnome Wrangler
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Mr. James The Gnome Wrangler
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Here in Oregon were basically in the forest everywhere, but in our area we don't get too many deer past the freeways other than a couple of miles away, so deer aren't really too much of a hindrance. We have a giant coyote population all over Oregon though, so much in fact that Portland State University has a Coyote Tracking program ( Portland Urban Coyote Project [ portlandcoyote.com])... Outdoor pets are really frowned upon as there's coyotes fear no people. Yes the cutie tree perished, got too dry from the crazy hot winters we've been getting. I can plant directly in the ground if I amend the clay soil or pots, the moles don't really like the clay.
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Patriot
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Patriot
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Too bad about your tree. We have coyotes too but so far they haven't bothered my dogs.
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