Got a peach tree that has been about 5 years since I planted it. It finally looks like a tree. I have shaped it up to provide shade and So I could mow under and walk around it. The crown is 6-8 feet in diameter at the widest spot, I know I have not pruned it for production yet, It has a few medium sized peaches that I can see, but the center is pretty over grown. Now that it has a fair root system and about a 4 inch trunk, I want to really prune so next year can be more productive. Any advice would be appreciated. specific fertilizer, how and when to prune, I have never really grown fruit trees before. I have seen some pictures on google that look way too invasive. I live in Belton if anyone is in the area Thanks

Prune in late January, keep 4 main branches going in 4 corners, keep the top middle empty so that the morning dew evaporates quickly, the dew will cause mold and diseases on the peaches, spray once a month during the growing season with neem. Spay in the fall with dormant oil, and then again after you prune. Do not let your tree produce 200 peaches, it will break, so you will need to thin out.

Thank you for the advice!!!

Picked some tomatoes and peppers today.

I figured out how to grow cucumbers and cantaloupes this year. Can't even give them away anymore lol

That looks bad azz man

i have some 1015 onion seeds a nabor gave me ... i get my slips from Dixondale ... if nebody wants'm, PM me with ur address...i'm guessin' u gotta plant'm on Oct 15th

nobody wants'm...???...ok Derek, guess i'll mail'm 2 u since u took my red okra...u throw'm away...i can't do that

I'll take them. My BIL likes to start onions by seed.

Last year I shoved a couple of old sweet potatos into my tomato pots, at the end of the year when the tomatos died I had a nice harvest of great sized and flavor sweet potatos. This year, I just cut up about 6 sweet potatos into 5-6 pieces each and shoved them all over my garden. Every single one grew!!! Now my entire garden is covered in sweet potato vines, 25x35 Ft of vine, vines are growing on every trellis, and up every fence. I was going to dig them all up in November same as last year, I was reading that I can eat the leaves and that they are really good for you. Does anyone know If I start eating leaves will it affect the quality of the sweet potatos?

I wouldn't think it would affect the potato at all. The vines grows so fast that it will quickly and easily replace whatever leaves you pick.

I have sweet potato vines in my flower bed for decoration. They come back every year. They even came back this year after the rough winter. They are the last plant to come out over winter every year but always comeback. I've dug up some huge sweet potatoes out of my flower bed. I'm bored with them now and will kill them off when they come back next year.

Well, I picked about 10 8' sections of vines, the ones that were obscuring my ability to walk through the garden. I stripped all the good leaves and left about 2 inches of stem on each leaf. Soaked and agitated in cold water, then stir fried in a wok with sesme oil garlic salt and pepper. An entire wok overstuffed with greens cooked down to about a quart of finished product. The taste was fantastic, absolutely No bitterness, even a slight sweetness to the leaf, almost like a sweeter spinich. The stems were a little tough, I may pre boil the stems and blanch the leaves next time. Overall I am kicking myself for throwing away (feeding to chickens) tons of these greens in the past! I will be eating them from now on. They say they are a super food, 5 times more nutritious that the sweet potato, with antioxidants and possible cancer reduction in lab studies.

https://www.scitechnol.com/proceedi...c-diseases-and-promotes-health-6867.html

Crapyetr. Got my Dixondale mailer in. Got me fired up. About time to plant onions. I plant on good Friday. Easy to grow. I'll blend in some 13-13-13 when I till up the beds. Just some Ammonia Sulfate after that. But you are the onion master.

huh...???...u mean the good Friday the day after Thanksgiving...???...r u goin' with TX Legends or mixing it up???

i plant whenever the Farmers Almanac says is a good day as soon as i can get my onions...prolly 'bout the same time as u do...i've still got onions n knee-hi panty hose hangin' n the garage...

why did the tff gardening thread email call me "craper"???...close enuf