Plants Always Win
Ep. 33 Establishing Apples, Eradicating Horsetail & Fertilizing Flowers
Our gardens are winding down for the season, but our audience is putting on a growth spurt! This crop of new listeners has seeded our Q&A inbox with a flush of questions, which we love to see. And while we’d normally answer these at the end of our versus episodes, we currently have a backlog of recorded episodes and we don’t want folks to have to wait for answers. That means it’s time for another Q&A special!
We start with questions inspired by Sean’s recent video about an apple tree sold with its graft and root flare buried well below soil level. If you want to understand how fruit trees are grafted and sold, how to plant them successfully, and what to expect from them as they grow, keep your ears peeled for this conversation.
Next, we move on to plants that listeners are hoping to get rid of, touching briefly on bindweed (covered more thoroughly in episode 31) before digging into horsetail, that pervasive prehistoric plant. The question was “How do I get rid of it?” and we do address that—but you’ll find some options you might not have expected in our answers.
Finally, we chat about an anecdote that was shared with us: “This year I learned that cosmos don’t like fertilizer.” It’s true that feeding nitrogen to flowering plants will push them to produce more greenery than blooms. But we’re here to offer some education on what you can do to give them a boost.
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Learn MoreAbout Horsetail: https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/horsetail
Find bare-root fruit trees grown in Ontario from:Golden Bough Tree Farm (Marlbank, ON, in Tweed): https://goldenboughtreefarm.ca/
Northern Food Forest (Calvin, ON, near North Bay): https://northernfoodforest.ca/
Pineneedle Farms (Pontypool, ON, within Kawartha Lakes: https://www.pineneedlefarms.ca/
Silver Creek Nursery (Wellesley, Ontario, in the Waterloo region): https://silvercreeknursery.ca/
Whiffletree Farm & Nursery (Elora, ON): https://www.whiffletreefarmandnursery.ca/
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Timestamps00:12 Intro
00:55 What’s Growing On? Erin's Fall Fair Entries
04:46 What's Growing On? Sean's Fall Fruit Trees Planting
08:50 Water Break
10:42 Is a buried graft the reason my apple tree keeps dying?
11:43 What is a root flare?
14:54 Do nurseries make mistakes like this on purpose to sell more trees?
16:36 Will a tree always die if its graft is below ground level?
19:07 If you let suckers from a root stock grow up, will they produce fruit?
21:40 If the tree survives having its graft buried, is everything okay?
23:00 I planted apples 3-4 years ago. They are suckering like crazy and haven’t produced any fruit. What can I do?
25:45 What fruit tree is best to plant in Ontario - something hardy and not fussy?
30:15 What if I need to eradicate field bindweed from my lawn instead of my garden?
35:42 How can I get rid of horsetail? I tried replacing all my soil and it still came back.
45:01 Fertilizing stopped my flowers from blooming. What should I have done?
56:00 Outro and Contact Us
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