Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tomatoes, anyone?
My sister in Puyallup has the greenest thumb of anyone I know. Right now she has so many tomato starts that she as a table on the street in front of her house selling them for .50 each. She has red and yellow (very sweet) grape tomatoes, heirloom, stupice,. Granny Smith (never turns red, but tastes great), roma, one or two bred for pots, and I forget what else. There are about a dozen varietiesLet me know if you want any, I'm running down there May 25 or 26 to pick up mine.
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Does anyone know how to prune rhodies? I have a lovely little slow-grower that someone drove over and split in half. It hasn't been the same since, and my pruning efforts are only making it worse.
ReplyDeleteWe've only had experience with pruning the bottom branches off so that this huge rhodie would not go down to the ground any longer - Roger just trimmed up to the main stem for that, so extremely easy. Bummer that yours is split in half. Could you tie it back up together with something?
ReplyDeleteWe had some old rhodies that were very spindly. We cut all the way down to the woody branches and new leaves popped out everywhere. One of them is nice and round after 2 years. The other not as attractive but better than it was. If it is not too lopsided, maybe you can just trim off the other sides a bit to even it out. New growth should appear soon. The best time to prune is just after it is done blooming.
ReplyDeletethat sounds right Joy. Alexa, remember the rhodies at church by the front office windows? They were big, and someone pruned them almost to the ground about a year and a half ago, they are very nice looking now. No blooms yet, but there is hope. At our house, Roger and our nephew Brent trimmed (shall I say massacred -sp?-) a beautiful red rhodie last year that my grandma gave me in the '70's and it has one big round bloom on it this year. That reminds me, gotta go take a picture of it tomorrow. I mean it was about 12 feet across and tall, pruned down to a couple feet tall.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments. I can't tie it back as the whole back side was completely sheared off. My efforts so far have resulted in some erratic growth. I had an old one out back (about 5' tall) that had strawberry root weevil so bad that I pruned it back to about 8" high and one puny branch with a single set of leaves, and moved it out front. It's a little lopsided from being in the trees, but it came back good and strong. The little split one was so perfect, I really wish I could get it back into shape. I'll keep at it.
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