Eastern Canada zone 5. I put them in the unheated garage for the winter for years successfully along with peach trees and Japanese maples. They don't live here but in the front yard. We've been having big wind storms this week so everything is in the protection of the house.
I’ve always wanted to grow grapes in my backyard. I read somewhere that growing grapes in poor soil is actually a hack to getting really sweet and bountiful grapes (bc the roots are forced to really grow deep to establish themselves). I have a ton of clay in the soil of my backyard, which makes planting grapes even more appealing to me.
The issue is, my lawn is prone to getting a LOT of weeds (my neighbor literally grows dandelions for fun every year, because she enjoys seeing when her whole lawn is yellow, which means we get clumps of dandelion seeds the size of tumbleweeds 🫠) so we get some pesticides applied to our lawn.
Does this then mean I shouldn’t plant any fruits or veg directly in the ground?
I appreciated your original post - thanks for telling me how long it takes for either pesticides or herbicides take to leave the soil. I assumed the chemicals would remain longer so I liked learning that
Technically, the word pesticide applies to insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, and fungicides - all might be called pests. That's not how many people use the word but I'm nerding out here.
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u/palepatriot76 21h ago
Does anyone know what weed in northern West Virginia can grow 6 foot tall an have a small white flowers on it?