So, I ran some dripline around to the front yard, to the new pawpaws. Last night I installed the emiters. My youngest son was helping me by yelling over the fence, to tell me if the pressure was too high, and if I blew the line.
Right now I’m on an airplane to Colorado to see my best friend and my mom. This was why the dripline emiters had to go in last night.
I still have the vented row cover over the top of the pawpaws.
Safe from our scorching sun. When we get feel like temps over about 103 (this is the low end for the feel like that bothers my plants) I have a bunch of sun sensitive plants that complain by burning.
They dry out and need water every other day. They are also still very vulnerable because they are young with small root systems.
You can see, even though these are on the North East side of my yard, the young pawpaws still needed protection. Any exposure to our super hot days in direct sun will make tender new plants burn back. Even with just a few hours in it.
Plus, pawpaws are a weird plant. They want shade in their first few years and full sun later. Because papaw leaves are large, like cherry leaves or many understory tropical plants, they don’t do as well in our heat and direct sun.
Having these guys in my front yard, at full size, with just a few hours of sun (maybe five hours or so) is a good spot for them. I will not have to build a shade cloth sanctuary like I had to do with the new cherries.
The next issue I will have is: will these flower? I have had a couple of pawpaw trees before, in pots (which I don’t recommend) and because I let them dry out a couple of times they croaked. However, this was about two to three years into growing them. Those pawpaws did flower for me. So I know it’s possible. I just don’t know if these two new varieties will.
I buy so many plant’s from online nurseries, and this was so many years ago, that it would take forever to find the receipt for the original pawpaws to check which varieties I bought. I doubt I bought the same varieties. So, we’ll see. Like most of my garden, this is an experiment.
Hopefully my emiters don’t pop off while I’m gone. I could lose a lot of my yard if that happens.
Since I am a pretty skilled gardener, if I can’t get these plants to produce I’ll let you know. But I have high hopes for them!
Meet you out in the garden to talk about defiance gardens! I will not yeild, mother nature!
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Re: paw paw follow-up: Nature’s goal in life is to live and multiply, I believe in giving help whenever necessary, (location change, potting up, compost additions etc) You are extremely observant and creative with your garden, your paw paws are in good hands! I had propagated 6 paw paw plants from seed, they survived one season outside and then slowly one by one tanked 😦 would like to try again knowing now, what I didn’t know then! Happy gardening!
Me too! I have occasional failures and then those plants stay in the back of my mind as a challenge. Kind of makes gardening an adventure!
Envisioning everything coming together!
Mine are not even in the ground yet. The garden that will accommodate them is not yet developed as it should have been. They were not far behind yours originally, but will be now, so it will be interesting to see the progress of yours. I grew mine from seed, so I do not know which will produce until they actually do so.