Posted on 06/18/2010 4:59:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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You’re not over-watering, right? Tomatoes dont like it too wet.
Congradulations.
Geeze wish I knew some of the stuff I am learning here back in the day when I had the physical agiliy and time to Garden.
But it sure is good knowledge when talking to folks around here off screen about their adventures in gardening.
Getting a bumper crop of sweet cherry tomatoes and at the point where I’m giving away most of them because there are too many for just myself. They taste great with my lettuces and herbs. The cucumbers confound me because their growth remains stunted. There are few leaves and no flowers. They get as much sun and fertirlizer as the rest of the garden. Onions doing great and so is garlic. Our weather here in VA has been on the hot and humid side. Have to water later today.
Try some boric acid powder for those bugs. I use that every year with great success. That also works for ants and other insects.
I’m also in zone 6-over here in Nashville. Bush green beans have always been a success for me-I’ve planted them early and late-even as late as August and they did well. Just have to be faithful about giving them a little water in the morning and evening after you plant the seeds-keep the soil a little moist until they germinate. Good luck!
Finally!
Got the main gardens in. Last year I was focused on fighting cancer, so all I grew here was weeds. I cleaned out all the raised beds with roundup. Then added a bag of manure and a bag of topsoil to each 4’ x 4’ bed.
I planted:
Red, Yellow, and Green Sweet Peppers
Yellow Beets
Red Beets
summer Squash
and Cucumbers
Everything is sprouting like mad. Yippie!
Also replanted the flower beds in the front of the house with dahlias and celosia.
My one remaining big task is to screen out the rocks from a flower bed alongside the driveway and replant it with dahlias.
never used boric acid powder-do you sprinkle it on the plant itself or just on the dirt around it or what? I have some of those pesky bugs too. Yick!
Glad to hear you are better and back to gardening!
I had those same bugs attacking my tomatoes and was wondering what they were. How do I eliminate them?
Actually I had the bugs AND blossom end rot simultaneously. applied the epsom salt to remediate the blossom end rot issue, but now it is too hot for tomatoes to set and I will need to wait til fall, I guess...:(
Where do you buy your Boric Acid?
I use an old (non trigger) spray bottle and drill the top out to the size of the suction tube and putting the tube into the hole. Fill the bottle about half full, give it a squeeze and it will dust the plants.
You and everyone else, I think.
It’s been a very frustrating week for me as I have never seen so much sunshine but it is accompanied with 25 to 35 MPH winds plus I have had something to do every morning that takes me downtown or to a doctor. We did get 2 or 3 hours in the main garden and we are starting to slowly push back against the weeds.
Wife has picked 2 1/2 gallons of Raspberries in the last 5 days and I had to dig my Inchellium Garlic yesterday due the late rains causing the wrappers to rot. I’ll have to check my notes but I believe it is a couple of weeks early and the bulb are smaller but still acceptable. I fear they will not last as long in storage although a grower told me to peel and freeze them in Zipper bags. That should stink up the freezer real good.
I fertilized the strawberries and scratched that in and watered them. I held these plants over from last year and they are stunted and producing small fruit and it’s too late to replant. I also fertilized and hilled the corn which is about 8” tall and very healthy with plenty of moisture in the compost rich soil.
Of course as any gardener knows there are hundreds of little projects that get done as you walk through your garden and at the end of the day you can’t remember a single one and wonder why you got so little accomplished...
I think Home Depot or Lowes is where I got the boric acid. If you can find beau’ darc (sp) apples (horse apples), they work best for ants and roaches.
Congratulations. You’ve been very quiet, and I’ve wondered where you’ve been. I’ll post pictures of my raised garden beds a little later this AM. I’m nearly ready to tear out all the lettuce.
The best way to eliminate them is if you can catch them & kill them by hand. I get a few that way, but not enough.
I bought some “End ALL” insect killer - which is organic. The reason being that these tomatoes are ready to pick & eat today. But, that didnt seem to do much to affect them.
Here is a link to check out:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/Galveston/weekly_Q&A/p&dc_12.htm
What do you mean by that? I thought that "hilling the corn" meant to plant the seeds in a mound of earth. Do you mean that you are bringing earth up higher around corn that has already sprouted? 'Splain, please.
I arranged my corn in rows in the raised bed, but I furrowed the dirt like corduroy and planted the seeds in the ridges. Will that work? Or, am I supposed to do something else?
The corn is sprouting, except for one place where the sprinkler washed it out, and I have one piece that is sprouting where I don't want it. Must have dropped a seed when planting. Can I dig that up and move it?
Our 10 day forecast Note the temps which are typical and normal since we sit on the shores of Humboldt Bay
I am in a fog every morning until the third cup of coffee.
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