Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: greeneyes
It's not too hot here in Central TX, but it is humid. A pop up shower would be nice. I have tomatoes that I don't have enough neighbors and friends to foist them all on. I picked a 27" cucuzza today. Gave it away.

Thonked a SVB moth on the head, but it was tougher than my thonking it. Went to get some bug spray, but by then it had left....not before it laid about fifteen eggs at various places on my Tromboncino Squash Vines, and probably some places I had missed. The eggs don't wash off. They have to be picked off. I wonder if there is some "natural enemy" to SVB moths..I know there is BT for the maggoty borer babies.

If I make it through summer without falling off my ladder which I use in my Cucuzza/Tromboncino obsession it will mean my guardian angel is putting in overtime.

Also today, I bought a pump sprayer so I can do foliar feedings on my plants.

11 posted on 06/27/2014 1:24:28 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: sockmonkey

We have no outdoor tomatoes that are ripe yet, so I am jealous of your tomato production. Hubby’s garden is doing well so far. Yesterday he bought a drip hose and now has water running through it into his garden from the swimming pool water collected from the roof top.

We had up to 3000 gallons when he started. I still have to lug buckets, so we need to figure out a better way for me too.


25 posted on 06/27/2014 2:02:03 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: sockmonkey

OK for as long as I have been gardening (45 years??) I have never heard of a cucuzza so I had to google it. Must be no one grows them up here. (Michigan)


82 posted on 06/27/2014 5:24:02 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson