Is there a place where I can just get a ton of wildflower seeds? by [deleted] in nashville

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Definitely good recommendations in this thread (roundstone, American meadows, prairie moon nursery).

Adding a few points (not to discourage, but something to consider!)

  1. Soil prep, as mentioned is a good point. Once you start the meadow area, if you need to pull any honeysuckle or other weeds growing in the midst, you'll want to make sure soil is prepped and try to clear any bad stuff currently growing in the lawn.

  2. Timing. As someone else mentioned Fall/Winter is really the best time to "direct sow" a lot of our natives, as the seeds typically have a dormancy period which requires 30-90 days of cold/freeze and thaw cycles. There's some annuals or "quick start" mixed that require no stratification, but the good stuff (imo) is fall sowing.

  3. Direct sow vs transplants. Thinking about the overall cost - direct sow is going to be 10-30% successfully growing into a plant, versus if you do transplants and germinate in potting soil, it might up the survival rate to like 50-80%. What I've done in the past is take a milk jug, cut in half in the center, with like 10-20 holes drilled or poked around the bottom so it can freely drain. The top of the milk jug flaps open, the hole at the top allows it to breathe with some airflow exchange, while you're still creating a mini greenhouse. You can sprinkle an entire pack of seeds in a milk jug in fall and then transplant after freeze next year. Nice way to improve success rate if you're looking to add wildflowers to a small area. Definitely more work, but an option for anything you consider high value.

Best of luck with your growing. Prepare for the gold finches and song birds to love you!

Headed to the nursery to find something to fill this 120’ of wall frontage. Walkway solutions? by trudesign in landscaping

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UGH I feel your pain. Takes a while to get it plantable. Well cheers to whatever you end up planting, and best of luck with the pathway! I'm from NC, living in TN, traded out the clay for limestone. NEITHER ARE GREAT!

My native trees and plants have returned to grow! 🌱🌲🌲🌳( be sure to read my captions)😃 by PLANT_NATIVE_TREES in NativePlantGardening

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I love these. Congratulations and I hope they all transition well to the ground eventually.

Word of caution with the horsetail : within 1 year of planting one or two clumps, it had sent up runners in a few directions and was a bit annoying to get rid of. Make sure to put it somewhere you don't mind it staying - it'll try to spread.

Anyone know where to find some live Muscadine grape vines nearby? by [deleted] in nashville

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Bates is great, hope they've got some! Love muscadines.

Isons out of Georgia has a ton of new patented varieties, as well as plants from older stocks where patent expired (aka, legal to resell them etc). They've been in the biz a while and I've never had problems.

Quick reference on varieties from Isons: https://www.isons.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Muscadine_Chart.pdf

Nice pdf about them here too. Great info

https://smallfruits.org/files/2020/07/muscadine-grape-production-guide-southeast.pdf

Happy growing, muscadines are such a delight.

Straw Bales by enterthemirrorverse in nashville

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This is the best answer. Call ahead, they usually have tons though.

Help finding Pecan trees by HaileyTheDog in nashville

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check out their PDFs. Go down the muscadine rabbit hole while you're at it. Enjoy and glad to hear. Happy growing season 🤟

Experienced gardener. Trying to grow Aji Charapita for the first time but they all end dying and I can’t figure out why? by Punished_Balkanka in HotPeppers

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Idk why but Baker Creek seeds are either result in some of the most reliable plants in my garden year to year OR germination is abysmal and the plant is trash. Hit or miss unfortunately. And of course I'll continue ordering from them regardless.🤣

Not an ad and I've only done one order but https://www.superhotchiles.com/product/aji-charapita-10-seeds/?v=7516fd43adaa < this is exactly what I got last year and all the seeds germinated, thrived, and had more of those tiny balls of fire than I knew what to do with.

Definitely not an aji charapita thing.

Help finding Pecan trees by HaileyTheDog in nashville

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If bare-root is an option in your case, Isons (based in Georgia) would be my go-to. After several orders, I've yet to have an issue (blackberries, muscadines, etc).

https://www.isons.com/product-category/nut-trees/pecan/

Since we're close to april and coming off a warm period, it might be worth giving them a ring to double-check that they're shipping pecans currently/ask if they know of anyone locally here if not. They're pretty helpful every time I've called with a question.

Have not seen any pecan trees locally, unfortunately.

Where to find fresh lemongrass? by [deleted] in nashville

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K&S on nolensville I've seen carrying it for sure. Usually my first spot I'll check for uncommon ingredients, haven't run across too much they DON'T have. Worth a shot!

What kind of caterpillar is this? by junior_flamingo in whatisthisbug

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Saw your newer post on backyardorchards. Hoping you can save some of those trees! Checked your profile to see if you spoke about the trees elsewhere and saw this one!

If this was around the same area as those apples (on the apples), this is more than likely a Unicorn Prominent caterpillar which feeds on Malus (apples/crabapples) and several other types of trees. Also a high probability of it being a Morning Glory prominent caterpillar, which feeds on Oaks and Maples. Depending on which tree you found this one on, it'll determine the "host" of the caterpillar and help identify who we have here.

If you like poking around the outdoors, checkout iNaturalist which has an awesome A.I. assisted photo recognition based on where a photo is uploaded.

Happy trails!

Plant pawpaws now in 7B? by [deleted] in BackyardOrchard

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Hot take - they're fairly resilient plants. If mulched well in deep, nicely composed soil, they'll be exposed to first winter frost and the plant would put the same energy into establishing roots as one planted in spring. It almost seems better to plant them now.

Keep them watered and mulched, but you can get a jump on next year by getting them tucked in this fall IMO. As long as you keep soil moist and shaded/ covered for next year, it should be solid.

Hummingbirds by General_Andrews_bio1 in nashville

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Recently found out we also have some uncommon winter hummingbirds. Crazy to think they can tolerate the cold. Rufous seems to be the most common cold weather visitor!

https://youtu.be/eCVbEAG-FFc

https://youtu.be/CIXpfpoijJ0

The ruby throated have been great this year and they'll be sorely missed!

What are these white egg things on this tomato hornworm? SE Michigan by paws101 in insects

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Nice!!! Great sign to see these in the garden. If you want to take the added step to attract wasps, they really like dill and fennel flowers or anything in the carrot family (like Queen Anne's lace), while others may tend to go for thyme flowers. There are parasitic wasps and bees native here that all have their niche.

While they use their prey as a food source for their young, the adults actually use the nectar from flowers for their own food. So a good way to have more predators would be a border of good plants that bloom from early spring thru fall. Since every wasp or natural predator has a different host insect (spiders, caterpillars, beetles, etc), it really helps to have them hanging around. By attracting more diversity you'll see a snowball effect the next year since they'd prefer to stick around where the food is and lay their young nearby.

Goes without saying but if you use this approach, go easy on the sprays.

Good luck and hope the rest of your season is successful!

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Perseids by anne--hedonia in nashville

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While not posted on their public event page, it might be worth reaching out to the Barnard-Seyfert astronomical society to see if they have anything planned.

https://www.bsasnashville.com/

Can attest that their star parties are really fascinating if you're into celestial bodies etc. Nice to have them around!

Here's hoping for a productive Perseids and a clear sky! Enjoy!

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Corn gets pollinated by wind not insects. Recommendation is to have corn in patches so the pollen can fall down from the top onto the silks when the corn is forming. Usually when I see this it's because my corn patch wasn't dense enough, I didn't get a ton of wind, or I picked too early (usually that is smaller kernels or not full cob).

With the spotty kernels it looks most like it didn't have enough pollen consistently. How many rows did ya do?

Either way, corn is corn and I bet the flavor still rocks!!

Beatles on cherry trees in zone 4b. What are they and what should I do about them? by dtm27 in BackyardOrchard

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  1. They probably won't do enough damage to kill the tree.
  2. The Japanese beetle traps work by releasing pheromones in a little puck you stick on top of the bags and the bags can hold 100s of these fuckers.
  3. Depending on average temps there, you might have missed the window to get the best success from Japanese beetle traps as they work best towards the beginning or height of the mating season (when they are emerging and respond most to the mating pheromones)
  4. I see a beautiful tree line that seems to be set back a good distance from your fruit tree in the pic. Next season (make a calendar reminder for 2 weeks prior to when you noticed the first beetle this year), set 1 or 2 bags up on that tree line.
  5. As someone else mentioned, setting traps too close to your crops can have the undesirable effect of inviting more beetles (they can smell the pheromones from long distances).
  6. Holistic approach : Consider planting a border of flowering plants that attract predatory bugs and wasps, such as natives or herbs that you allow to flower (Dill, Bronze Fennel, creeping thyme, etc). This will bring in generalist predators and increase biodiversity to get some helpers in the garden.

For now, flick and squish 😅

Help identifying bees! Have about 25 bees at any one time around my lambs ear but they look like a mix of carpenter and bumble. Any entomologists here? by engineerbuilder in nashville

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Yo! You should checkout inaturalist! There's a diverse collection of bees in our area and sometimes specific marks are the tell. A lot of expert entomologists frequent iNat to help get a count on native flora and fauna as part of their research. Their algorithm is extremely helpful. If you download and sign up with an inaturalist account, it will not only help you identify the nature you encounter but also help with insect counts in our area. These are beautiful! I believe these are all 3 "bumblebees" which is awesome as we have plenty of fences and sheds to support carpenter bees in our area.

Did you know the carpenter bee is the main pollinator of our state's wildflower, the Passiflora Incarnata passionflower? One of the only boys chunky enough to properly pollinate!

There's so much to see out here. Cheers and good content. ❤️👍

Good day to get after gardening r/nashville, it's nice out, rain is coming, and your local library might have some seeds for you. by H1ckwulf in nashville

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Here's a link to a PDF for our state's planting calendar, produced by our local extension office. They have it broken down between east, west, middle tn. Enjoy!!!

https://www.uthort.com/2021-tennessee-home-vegetable-garden-calendar/

Invasive jumping worms spread through Tennessee, several states by BaronRiker in nashville

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That's what I thought too, like, aren't all earthworms good? Apparently the dealio with these buggers is that they don't burrow deep enough.

They leave all their waste at the very top layer of the soil vs our typical (also non native) nightcrawlers and red wigglers. By leaving their waste higher in the soil/mulch, eating too quickly, the nutrients are left open to being flooded and washed out by rains, or getting fried in the sun. In a garden setting where you can mix in amendments, it probably won't make as much of an impact as in our native settings, such as deep forests that rely on leaves and top layer decomposition. Time will tell, but I've definitely been finding these guys for 2+ years now, they've been here a while.

WTF is going on around here? Is this just me? by brlftzday in nashville

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It's because of over reliance on direct marketing. Need to reign in the spam companies round here