Dear All,
This year continues to advance in ways that resemble an Alice in
Wonderland nightmare. For starters Erigeron annuus 56"tall; breast high
mint, much taller evening primrose ....all on soil which has never
received any mineral fertilizer, manure or compost and in previous years
had stubby weeds calf high or less.
This must mean a very high Nitrogen content in ppt this year on my
Kentville lot. I am wondering if this high N, presumably in ppt, or as
an aerosol drift, is purely local or if it has been experienced
elsewhere in NS.
The entirely strange behavior of Black Currant this year is what
set me wondering; what next. I planted some rooted Black Currant shoots
in 1990 and they started bearing enough to bother recording in 1999.
There was a huge crop in 2020 and, consequently as expected, a
fairly small crop in 2021. As usual I thinned and headed them back on
July 30; just after the last fruit were picked.
But now many of the leaf buds, which should have remained dormant
until spring 2022, have opened to form a second flush of leaves in 2021.
The only N I have ever applied to the Black Currants is as a bark
mulch, usually crumbled decayed spruce bark which would deliver some N
in the lichens.
Dave Kentville.
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