Posted on 07/25/2020 5:39:18 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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If you want to try again next year, or if you still have 65 days left in your growing season try, ‘Fooled You’ Jalapeno Pepper. Has the flavor but not the heat. I’ve grown it before. Very prolific and tasty.
https://www.totallytomato.com/product/T03035/67
I’ve got some zucchini plants that cranked out a dozen-or-so squashes, but now they’re only producing male blossoms; no females.
Anyone have any idea what would make them do that?
Wow!
Thanks for all the info. Having never seen red jalapenos I didn’t know they turned colors. The pictures are great.
Mine are about 3 inches now so I’ll pick a few and leave a couple to fully ripen.
See....I don’t have to have a pretty lady inspire me for poetry.
Thanks. I’ve bookmarked the website. I’ll give them a try.
Has it been excessively warm by you? If so, that’s probably why.
Keep the plants watered, give them a top dressing of Bone Meal (prior to watering) and they’ll produce more for you before frost. The bone meal prevents Blossom End Rot, which tomatoes, peppers and zukes are prone to. It’s a calcium deficiency, not a disease.
Whatever works, LOL!
Your post reminded me to grow them again next season!
It was another hot week here in Central Missouri. We have plenty of moisture in the soil from last weeks’ rain, but it is very unpleasant outside.
We’re being over-run by cukes. Still no ripe slicer tomatoes. Starting to see a few beginning to make some color. Not sure what the problem is, but they are just not doing well this summer.
Between the kale and the collards we have more greens that we can eat.
Been making steady progress on Mr. Clarence. Still waiting on the alternator kit to arrive, but aside from that the electrics are almost finished.
Does anyone know if putting an old decrepit hose near the vegetables deters the rabbits, raccoons, and other critters from snacking where they’re not appreciated? I’m hoping mine looks like a snake and scares some of them off.
I don’t know about an old hose near the garden, but we found that a plastic snake on a porch roof kept the woodpeckers away! They were pecking on the house trim (before we had it covered with aluminum) & doing damage. No more woodpeckers after the snake went up - frankly, I was surprised it worked.
I think MWH was having success with a snake/hose in her garden?
Hasn’t been terribly warm.
Was having trouble with blossom-end rot earlier (even though I put several egg shells in the ground with each plant), so I gave them a lot of calcium nitrate, and it went away.
But, blossom-end rot only affects the squash fruit, which comes from female blossoms; I’m not getting female blossoms at all.
Wondering if this is going to be a bad year for squash.
the hose worked great on the rabbits but not on the groundhog that arrived later. Not going to be much lettuce this year.
That’s interesting about the plastic snake. By the way, the lady at my local bird food store told me that if you have a problem with woodpeckers on your house, it is usually an indicator of an insect problem around there.
Ok, thank you. We have both also, so I will have to keep my eye out for another tactic I guess.
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