Posted on 06/24/2011 5:15:19 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Just Damm fanfan! I only had that happen one time and it also shredded the covering on the greenhouse.
What kind of tool? Do you have a picture? I’m still using my Hula Hoe (the “Hoe with the Wiggle” - invented in Fresno and purchased about the time they started marketing it.) I notice that they are still selling them. I hope the original guy made a lot of money off of that tool. I even have one that the handle broke and my husband cut it short so you can use it when on your knees.
You must have done something very good in your life to be blessed with such an awesome partner. Was the pie good?
I should add that that hoe is 50+ years old. I think I have my father’s too.
My first thought was tomato Horn Worms but it looks like something else is going on. Do you have more plants of the same variety?
That's Borage which is planted amongst the tomatoes and the squash because it is supposed to be good for them (companion planting). It looks like it is going to flower. Should I let it flower, or should I pinch that flower off?
Also, the garden books say that it is good in salads. Has anyone tried it? It doesn't look like something I want to eat.
Yes, I do, and they are all fine. There are 16 tomato plants in that bed. 15 are fine. There are 4 Early Girls and 3 are fine.
It’s just that one. It was fine on Tues. On Wed. it developed those strange leaves.
I’ve never grown or tasted it, but it is an attractive plant. We have eaten nasturtium and chive flowers, which are not only tasty, but beautiful.
Let it flower! They are very pretty, and Do add the younger leaves to salads. They taste like cucumber!
When I first glimpsed at it I thought it was Stinging Nettle...
It is handsome, isn’t it. I’ve never found it in the garden centers before, but it’s on my list to plant to protect tomatoes and squash. So, I bought 2 plants when I ran across it 3 weeks ago.
Stinging nettle! You are being nasty today! Perish the thought!
The electric company notified my husband that we have poison ivy growing up our pole. Just fine! Something else to worry about.
and you were 6 years old when Mr Hula sold it to you for the going price of $1.29?
Your punishment is NO PIE for that Stinging Nettle suggestion! Tell Mrs. Bender that you have to go to bed without pie for making evil suggestions about my garden.
(I hate stinging nettles.)
"Vegetable use of borage is common in Germany, in the Spanish regions of Aragón and Navarra, in the Greek island of Crete and in the Italian northern region Liguria. Although often used in soups, one of the better known German borage recipes is the Green Sauce (Grüne Soße) made in Frankfurt. In Italian Liguria, borage is commonly used as filling of the traditional pasta ravioli and pansoti. The leaves and flowers were originally used in Pimms before it was replaced by mint or cucumber peel. It is used to flavour pickled gherkins in Poland.[citation needed]
Naturopathic practitioners use borage for regulation of metabolism and the hormonal system, and consider it to be a good remedy for PMS and menopause symptoms, such as the hot flash.[citation needed] Borage is sometimes indicated to alleviate and heal colds, bronchitis, and respiratory infections, and in general for its anti-inflammatory and balsamic properties.[citation needed] The flowers can be prepared in infusion to take advantage of its medicinal properties. The oleic and palmitic acid of borage may also confer a hypocholesterolemic effect.[citation needed] Borage is also traditionally used as a garnish in the Pimms Cup cocktail,[3] but is sometimes replaced by a long sliver of cucumber peel if not available. Borage leaves have a cucumber like flavor.[3]"
I have no idea what it cost in 1960. $1.99 sounds about right. My father bought it for me and I inherited his. So, I have 2 50 year old ones and I purchased another about 10 years ago when my were temporarily lost. We have 3 barns on this property, plus a garage, and tools get misplaced.
How intersting. Thanks for the info. I’ll slip into salads. Everything else sounds too complicated, although the stuffed ravioli sounds good.
I’d love to hear what you think once you have had a chance to sample it.
I worked for weeks to get the new beds ready, and the tomatoes were really “taking”.
There is always a silver lining however. Maybe the tomatoes are young enough to recover, and if not, I started the seeds late enough in the year that I still have 2 or 3 root bound seedlings that I haven't given away yet, so I may plant those as well, and let the best plant win.
I guess I would have been even more upset if I had managed to have them planted 3 weeks earlier and there had been actual tomatoes on them.
This photo of a bed of Inca marigolds. Looks like a Christamas tree farm doesn't it.
The Marigolds in the foreground are Durangos ...
We have our failures also but for some reason those photos are too blurry to post... or something
I was suspecting a fungus or wilt, but Early Girl is resistant to those (not wilt-proof, but proven resistant), and there doesn't seem to be any discoloration.
It could be that you got a plant or seed that was of another variety. Last year I bought several Bonnie six-packs of tomato plants that were Arkansas Traveler. As the plants reached about a foot tall, one of them was obviously something else ... leaf shape that I had never seen. When the plant started to fruit, the tomatoes were shaped like huge strawberries. Turned out that I got a wayward German variety that turned out to be absolutely fabulous. I tried to get seeds for them this year, but they were sold out.
When all else fails, but I suspect something is wrong, I hit the plant with a spray dose of Triple Action Plus, which is an organic fungicide, insecticide and miticide (or any brand that is Neem Oil). It never hurts anything and has cured many a thing that I never figured out what it was.
Wish I could help more, but if there are no obvious insects or viruses, and the plant is still green and flowering, I'd leave it alone.
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