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Prepping my soil for Sea Buckthorn
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Posted by dethride 7a / 6b GA (My Page) on Mon, Dec 18, 06 at 17:35
| From what I've read on this forum S.B. likes poor sandy soil with good drainage, not too fertile in the N, but enough minerals to promote decent growth. I have clayey soil, 6.2 pH, with lots of crumbly shale rock mixed in. It needs to be loosened up as it packs tight. Rainfall is about 30 in./year (used to be 40" up here in N. GA!) but I have a well and old spring pump with storage tanks for irrigation. I have two different females - Leikora and Golden Sweet and one male, all from Raintree. They are in 3 gal. pots now and i want to set them this spring on a south facing slope but am concerned about frosts as our date is May 10th. I thought these things were from like Siberia or something. I plan on digging large holes with my backhoe and mixing 500lbs of sand from our local dealer to loosen up the soil and letting them go. Should I include perhaps some shredded leaves or some bottomland soil from down in my pasture? I want my investment to live in it's Eastern US invironment. |
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RE: Prepping my soil for Sea Buckthorn
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| Sand is good; try for something coarser like pumice or fine lava rock. Greensand is good for minerals. Your frost date will not harm the plant but may freeze the delicate blossoms and so no fruit that year. Mine have bloomed in March. 30" rain a year is fine for seaberry. |
RE: Prepping my soil for Sea Buckthorn
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| March, huh? Sounds like trouble. I wonder if the blossoms get past the delicate stage, will a frost still kill my chances of fruit for the year? |
RE: Prepping my soil for Sea Buckthorn
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| I haven't had anything lower than 29° during or after the bloom, so I don't know. |
RE: Prepping my soil for Sea Buckthorn
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| I've not had problems with mine growing. In fact, they might be better if they didn't get the attention they get--they are growing aggressively and have roots that shoot out new growth a few feet away. I have to go out every spring (when they green up before the grass) and remove them from the yard where they've escaped the bedding areas nearby. Fruit/flower very hard to detect, although the robins did and I didn't get to sample a single fruit this year. Spines are for real--watch planting them where you'll back into them, or they could catch an arm or an eye. |
RE: Prepping my soil for Sea Buckthorn
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| Sea buckthorn is not effected by freezes, it grows in northern part of Russia very successfully. It it gets pretty cold out there! |
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