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The tomatoes are about done for the summer. It is way too hot here. We are under mandatory water rationing already. I think we have had almost 30 days of 100+ this year.
There have been something like 20 record highs here this year, and no rain for weeks. Today should be be the last consecutive day of 100 temps.
Rain IS in the forecast for the weekend, but not enough to stifle the extreme drought we are in, and anyone who is sick and tired or rain, send it to Texas.
add me please.....Just finishing up our Master Gardener booth for the fair....always looking for folks with new ideas.
Good morning from 100 gazillion degrees in Vegas. (spring has sprung, fall has fell, summer has come and it is hotter than ususal) Hoping I get back to a garden that has been gently rained on every day for the past 5 days. SW Ohio is dry as a bone. Busy month ahead ... our county is hosting the Ohio Maser Gardener Conference this fall. Lots to do in an aleady full schedule.
I live on the Alabama gulf coast and could use some help concerning my Gladioulas. On internet sites, I see that people dig their bulbs each year so not to freeze them. The ground never freezes here, barely getting any freezing temps all winter. I have left them in the ground, but I have noticed that I do not have as many plants this year as I had in the past. I originaly planted about 50 bulbs 2 years ago, now only have about 30 this year. Is digging the bulbs neccessary when the ground doe not freeze? Or am I experiancing another problem. I used quality bulbs from an online source, and they are the most beautiful colors that I have ever seen, and I really hate to lose them. I planted about 50 more this year. Can anyone with deep south gladioulas experiance advise me?
I really enjoy these threads and photos, and wish that I could post photos here to share also.
Happy gardening to all!
I'm in North Carolina right on the I-95 corridor. I have some big, fairly vigorous tomato plants in my garden in which the tops are starting to yellow. The veins in the leaves remain green at first while the rest of the leaf turns yellow; then finally the whole leaf goes. So far only about the top third of the plant is infected. The two worst plants for this are some cherry tomatoes, but some of my slicing tomato vines are starting to exhibit the same signs.
It has been a little dry over the past weeks, but we've had some rain over the past few days and I've been watering, so water stress should not be a problem. There are no insect pests that I've noticed, although it's likely that there's an aphid or two in the mix somewhere. Over the course of the summer I've fertilized my 25x25-foot plot with ten pounds of commercial 10-10-10, watered in.
What do you suppose is causing the problem?