Nichrome said:

Opinions are like buttholes.

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Churpee Choozle said:

Nichrome said:

Opinions are like buttholes.

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Eat too many and yours works overtime?

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Nichrome said:

Olympia WA I used to pick cyans in a park in Feb. One year they were under snow for almost a week and just kept going.

Here in zone 5 where I have hickory, maple, and birch in abundance, shale, and very little topsoil my cyans and azzies often don't even fruit because we can get hard freezing temps by halloween. The cyans are more reliable than the azzies and often the azzies are 2-4 weeks later than the cyans.

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

This year I think I might try something like this.



I'm thinking it will give more surface area than a pot, but still be portable. I was thinking of making an actual raised garden bed last year, but it might be a bit beyond my means. This is cheap and more portable than a tarp.

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GodAxe said:

Nichrome said:

Olympia WA I used to pick cyans in a park in Feb. One year they were under snow for almost a week and just kept going.

Here in zone 5 where I have hickory, maple, and birch in abundance, shale, and very little topsoil my cyans and azzies often don't even fruit because we can get hard freezing temps by halloween. The cyans are more reliable than the azzies and often the azzies are 2-4 weeks later than the cyans.

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realy intersting to know how deep your path have been made, and did you do something in fall to protect them from deep freezing during winter.

im also in zone 5  and i plan to make a azure path as from what i read it is mort frost resistant, but didnt think about the fact that it may not fruit due to early frost. can you tell me if you had occurence of cyan fruit but the azzies did nt or  both didnt fruit on coldest year?

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I don't protect anything.

Neither az or cy will fruit here in a early cold year. Ovoids every year as canopies.  Typically the cy are more tolerant and pop a bit earlier and the az are the finicky ones.

October 25 a few years ago.

Mr Piggy said:

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

This year I think I might try something like this.



I'm thinking it will give more surface area than a pot, but still be portable. I was thinking of making an actual raised garden bed last year, but it might be a bit beyond my means. This is cheap and more portable than a tarp.

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So uh, what's the plan here?  If you're trying to fruit in that tray, I absolutely would not.  It's too shallow and it would dry out real quick.  I'd suggest using a planter pot mostly full of potting soil with 1.5-3" of chips on the very top.  Other than that, you can absolutely make a bed by just dumping some chips on the ground in your yard and inoculating them.  It doesn't have to be a fancy raised bed.

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