Posted on 02/15/2013 10:46:41 AM PST by greeneyes
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Don’t mourn. Remember the happy times you had with your companion.
Every year I do my seed-starting thing in mid-January with specialty tomatoes and peppers.... and every year I lose many of the pepper plants and most of the tomato plants to damping off, no matter what gyrations I go through to ward it off. Sterilizing the mix, hydrogen peroxide in the water spray, etc. Nothing seems to be foolproof. Does anyone here have any sure-fire solution to eliminate the damping off problem?
Thanks.
It’s about time to go nuts...pepper seedlings, both sweet and ‘death hot’ (my Bhut Jolokia Peach is a beauty already), are doing well. Flats of Iditarod Red dwarf tomatoes all looking good, broccoli, cauliflower, herbs all chugging. Tomato flats are just about prepped...somewhere north of two hundred varieties to be tried out this year before we start cutting back...seeds everywhere. Roughly another 30 or 40 varieties due over the next few weeks.
Apple trees are blossoming, and the peach trees may follow suit in the next few days. I hope we aren’t hit with a freeze in March though.
Thank you. I’d better get stepping with the grass seed, then.
Thanks for posting this pic! Maybe I’ll be successful with tomatoes with this method...nothing else seems to work :(
/johnny
Sorry for your loss. I know only too well about mourning for a lost baby. Lost my feline companion of 15 years in December of 2009 due to VAS. Still haven’t gotten over it.
Chileheads unite! LOL
I’m actually planting habs this year. Not for myself, mind you (too hot for moi)...but for my neighbor who loves the hottest peppers on earth.
Now, two or so years ago, I read about growing a plant using the bag of potting soil for the container. Punch a few holes in the bottom of bag for drainage, then cut the top side away enough to get your plant into the soil and there is the pot (bag) with plant planted.
I expect to hear growls from you guys about growing a plant that way, but I’m doing it anyway to see if it works
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I read about this too. I think it’s an excellent suggestion. I am planning on using a couple of bags of mushroom compost to grow lettuce in this year.
Lettuce is usually planted as seeds.
Onions sets are often used for slicing onions.
I often plant the garlic I have left from the supermarket. Just seperate the cloves and plant in the fall for early summer harvest. When you order garlic from catalogs, they send you the garlic bulb which you seperate into cloves for planting.
That method just wouldn’t work in my garden. I have two cats that just LOVE to shred stuff....and since they get in trouble shredding indoors, they would go nuts on bags like that one....lol.
Thanks much! Will check it out.
Maggots? Yuck! Now there’s a bad wrinkle. Thanks for the pics and update.
That's what I love about this thread. Someone always seems to know or can find out. There's always something to learn.
/johnny
I’ll be pulling out the fall / winter plants soon and start to get ready for the spring garden this week. We still have cauliflower heads that need to be cut, along with broccoli sprouts.
Sounds like good progress is being made. Hubby gave me chocolates. They are so good, I can hardly keep my hands off them.
The best valentine’s day to me is one that includes potted plants, such as miniature roses, hyacinths, tulips, or daffodils.(well maybe a tiny box with just 4 chocolates could be added).
Is it possible to get pics of the green house?
We don’t usually have duck, but oldest daughter cooks for us on New Years Eve, and duck was one of the “new” entrees she prepared.
We also did a Chinese Hot Pot which was kinda like fondue.
We found out that picky eater grand daughter would eat veggies that way especially the baby corn.
That's what I'm growing. Good times.
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