Here are most of the most common questions we are asked at Richbar Golf and Gardens each spring:
How do I prune my raspberries? Raspberries, just like the range Tulameen, handiest produce fruit on 2-12 months-vintage canes. Once the canes produce fruit they die, so it’s very critical to prune out those old canes inside the fall. In the spring, thin the remaining one-12 months antique growth – leaving 6-8 of the sturdiest canes to bear this season’s crop.
The pruning strategies of everbearing or fall-bearing raspberries, like Joan J, are a touch extra perplexing. This is a primocane kind because of this it’ll produce fruit inside the fall on the tops of the primary-year canes, and once more in summer at the decrease part of the second-year canes. So, in case you simply wanted a fall crop you will prune all of the canes to the floor in early spring. But in case you need both summer time and fall you will prune out three-12 months-vintage canes. Sounds complicated, however, clearly, it’s now not. It’s in reality very scrumptious.
How do I plant potatoes? Use certified seed and reduce any large tubers into portions. However, ensure there is a minimum of three eyes in line with piece. Plant potatoes shallow, with eyes up, in deeply cultivated soil. Place in rows which are 3’ apart with potatoes 16” aside. Fertilize with the high content material of potash. When foliage is 10” high hill up. This is essential because you do now not want the tubers uncovered to sunlight. Light makes the skins turn inexperienced that is toxic. Do not use lime or manure. Manure will motive your potatoes to scab.
How do I plant asparagus roots? Use healthy 2 or three-yr-old roots. Dig holes 40cm (16”) deep, 60cm (24 in.) apart, and vicinity rows 120cm (forty eight”) aside. Place 30cm (12”) of soil and properly rotted manure into planting holes. Place roots into this mix in order that the crown is 15-20cm (6-eight”) under soil floor. Do no longer reduce any asparagus the primary year.
The ‘Garden Capital of the World’ is often how Cornwall is the notion of for the duration of the world. Cornwall enjoys the electricity of the Gulf Stream with its temperate weather of heat summers, moderate and moist winters which in flip lets in unusual and rare flora to thrive.
Where else are you able to find so many gardens with records dating returned to the Iron Age? As long ago as the early nineteenth-century Cornish gardeners have been a part of the Victorian plant hunters who amassed extraordinary flora and seeds from everywhere in the international.
That gives us what we have today: over 60 splendid gardens to explore with lush flora and sub-tropical theatres of color brimming with thrilling, rare and delightful plants. Cornwall’s gardens are determined in our marvelous Castles, Manor Houses, grand Farm Estates, Mill Houses, sheltered valleys, excessive up on blustery moorland and nestled in the wooded area and beach gardens which meet the turquoise colors of the water’s aspect.
Cornwall’s gardens are so numerous as they range in length from small and intimate to acres of rolling countryside. Some with captivating lakes and a Victorian boathouse to water gardens with tree ferns, rhododendrons, camellias, and magnolias. Others have walled gardens and manicured lawns to the most up-to-date of all impressive Biomes packed with magic from round the sector.
All round Britain you will be hard-pressed not to find a ‘Veitch’ plant or one derived from their nurseries. The Veitch circle of relatives sent many collectors all over the globe to bring back seeds and flora. These included two Cornish brothers, William and Thomas Lobb. William Lobb died in San Francisco in 1864 but his brother Thomas lived in Devoran till his death in 1894.