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Post by daw on Jul 16, 2022 17:14:18 GMT
Although my garden is the envy here it in no way compares with Laura's.
The desert produces huge crops of beets, onions,. anchovies, chil peppers ,jalapeno, watermelons, and lots of other vegetables, my garden don't look like that either. Until I bought birdseed no way could I have a garden.so my garden is late. But things do grow fast here.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jul 16, 2022 17:58:42 GMT
daw, What's the germination time on the birdseed?
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Post by fixitguy on Jul 16, 2022 18:46:43 GMT
We took three truck and trailer loads of brush to the dump, one more to go on wensday when they open again. I thought my kid was going to kill me. It was 80F, with 70% humidity this morning. I don't think I could have done the last load, even if we had time.
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Post by daw on Jul 16, 2022 19:39:20 GMT
It never gets the chance to come up. The birds do a fast job of eating every bit of it. Are you thinking I should plant some.. Mice and rats wood probably find and eat it.
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Post by fixitguy on Jul 17, 2022 0:14:32 GMT
We have a spot of yellow fungus? In our mulch. It looks like calf poop,but its not. Any ideas? I would post a pic, but I'm on mobile and can't
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Post by daw on Jul 17, 2022 0:52:20 GMT
An aspirin or two in a quart of water Is supposed to kill fungicide. I am trying it and it seems to work.
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Post by themotherhen on Jul 17, 2022 7:22:14 GMT
An aspirin or two in a quart of water Is supposed to kill fungicide. I am trying it and it seems to work. Aspirin is very good for fungus, good advice!
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Post by mzgarden on Jul 17, 2022 13:17:35 GMT
So far, this is the year of the winter squash. I'm having to retrain the 'arms' out of walkways everywhere. It even escaped out of the garden and was headed for the barn at breakneck speed. So today (as everyday) I'm flipping squash leaves and removing squash bug eggs, trimming leaves and retraining the crazy arms to stay in the garden. Usually the squash bugs get away from me but so far this year (ssssh, don't say it too loud) I might be ahead of them. Planted shorty carrots, some french radishes and a 2nd planting of pickling cukes (first ones shriveled up). Got our first wax beans picked and a couple zucchino rampicante - picked small like zucchini. Weeded and hoed what I could, wove the struggling tomato plants through the cattle panel and prepped a bed to plant some beets later. A few more long beans got planted and the open area near the trellis is prepped for fall peas.
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Post by woolybear on Jul 17, 2022 15:25:43 GMT
We have a spot of yellow fungus? In our mulch. It looks like calf poop,but its not. Any ideas? I would post a pic, but I'm on mobile and can't Check out dog vomit slime mold en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica
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Post by fixitguy on Jul 17, 2022 16:55:46 GMT
We have a spot of yellow fungus? In our mulch. It looks like calf poop,but its not. Any ideas? I would post a pic, but I'm on mobile and can't Check out dog vomit slime mold en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septicaI believe that is it! Thanks
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Post by fixitguy on Jan 23, 2023 6:17:42 GMT
I was thumbing thru the RH Shumway seed catalog tonight. They sell a grafted tomato and potato plant that grows in a container. It's called a ketchup and fries plant. $16.95 each or 3 plants for $14.95 each. A tad spendy, but a cool conversation piece with the neighbors
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Post by themotherhen on Jul 23, 2023 12:21:58 GMT
So far this year I have harvested lettuces, basil, thyme, and (new for me to grow!!!) Garlic! I really enjoyed growing the garlic, it kept me going through the darkest days of winter 🙂 Also yesterday I harvested the first cucumber! It is much later than usual but the stupid hail just kept coming and coming all through May/June. I didn't get the plants in until late, now I'm just praying for a long growing season. I'm keeping a close eye on my tomatoes and squash for hornworms and squash bugs, I haven't seen any hornworms (knock on wood) but have picked off quite a few squash bugs and eggs, and dusted the plants with DE.
Oh, I tried a new method for growing cucumbers! I started with sunflowers about a foot high, staked them, then planted cucumbers in front for them to climb. It is working really well so far. I also grew all the squash in Earth boxes and staked then up on Texas tomato cages. I must say that it is much easier to control pests when the plants are tied up a bit.
The tomatoes have been slow to take off but I have some fruit growing now, and the peppers are very happy growing in Earth boxes also. Here's to a great harvest for everyone!
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Post by mzgarden on Jul 23, 2023 12:46:00 GMT
This morning I weeded a few of the raised beds, picked a few tomatoes and replanted (again!) 3 cucumber plants. Daggone bugs, heat and torrential downpours have played havoc with several things. 1st planting of beans were wonderful - picked - and then the blinding heat came and they all got the vapors and fell down. I've got a 2nd planting of seeds in hopes they will jump up and start producing. Tomatoes are doing very well - picking squash bugs & leaves with squash bug eggs on them every day. I also spray with dish soap/veg oil/peppermint/water concoction when I can't catch them. I know it's wrong to be happy about death, but watching them fall off the squash leaves after getting sprayed is, I hope, forgivable. Winter squash is going great guns so far.
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Post by woolybear on Jul 23, 2023 22:22:59 GMT
Thank heavens I only planted a 1/2 row of jade green beans. I've picked the last 2 mornings and will have another picking tomorrow. That 1/2 row is just about all my back can take bending over. With tomorrows picking I hope to have enough to run the pressure canner. Tomatoes are very slow ripening, just a tomato here and a tomato there. Last year my SiL brother was sending a nice looking set of twin bed frames to the dump so I grabbed them. Set them up this year for the cucumbers to grow up and the frame is working out great. Never thought to plant the cukes with the corn, cause the bloody butcher corn stalks are close to 7 feet tall. Planted 1 zucchini plant and have harvested 3 zucchini so far with another ready for the morning. Watermelon and butternut are growing great but I don't know if I'll get anything off of them this year, I feel like they are running out of time to make fruit. Next year I have to remember to start them in pots in the greenhouse and get them into the garden sooner. Peppers are doing very poorly.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jul 23, 2023 22:42:54 GMT
Summer squash is about the only thing we've harvested as yet. Our green beans looked ever so promising, flowers everywhere, but almost no beans. I've noticed an abundance of grasshoppers of late, which might be the problem. Our bell pepper seeds must have been old, as none came up. Replanted with new seeds, but the plants are only about 10" tall now. The cucumbers are a bust too. Lots of vines and flowers, then no flowers and no cukes. Hopefully our tomatoes will start putting on, the plants are looking fine, and we've had flowers, but again, nothing seems to be producing.
In other words, a real bummer of a garden year.
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