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Posted on 07/10/2009 3:59:55 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. Toward the end of last weeks Gardening Thread there was a short discussion about saving Heirloom Tomato seeds. Many of you might have missed the information so I thought I would start this weeks thread on that topic.
I have started reading through the gardening threads for help and advice. I am an amateur gardener with just tomatoes and chili peppers. Some of my tomatoes plants have had, what I’ve found on the internet, blossom end rot. I read that it could be caused from water issues or not having enough calcium in the soil. I water them regularly and the other day I took Calcium pills and dissolved them in water. I poured a little of the mixture onto each plant.
Am I doing the right thing here? Any advice? Thanks.
And PS....I’m having some issues with my pepper plants as well...any tips?
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Oh my just wonderful! I will be right over!
Do you have a cherry pitter?
I don’t but I use a big bobby pin.
Can’t beat that child labor!
Sonny is an awesome hole digger; he and the dogs used to dig HUGE foxholes when he was small, so his talent is not wasted!
The Japanese Beetles are just starting to show up around here; customers have been bringing them in to show me. Blech!
I haven’t had ANY out here; most likely because we have all sorts of spraying going on around us in the fields and not much grass turf area out here for them to lay eggs.
I have very few problems with bugs. It helps to have taken the time to build a good eco-system here where the GOOD bugs can thrive. I saw lace wings and REAL Lady Bugs yesterday. Lots of brown bats and birds of course, too.
It’s truly a life and death struggle every minute out there in the yard, LOL!
We’re getting glorious rain today; we SO needed it; it’s all been going south lately. The sweet corn crop is saved! :)
I just used a paring knife. Only found a FEW worms inside, LOL! I fed those cherries to the chickens, pits and all.
It was so good.
I have done that too but a bobby pin works a thousand times better.
Trust me.
Glorious is NOT the word we are using in regard to rain around here. The fact we have actually gone 3 nights in a row without any seems to be a miracle.
We're usually starting to worry about drought by this point, but not this year.
But...then my hair will fall down, LOL!
Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ll try it next time. Promise!
Gabz' farm, circa 1935...WTF are those people doing OUTSIDE? Eeek!
My idea of pitting cherries is to put it in my mouth and spit out the pit once the cherry has been disposed of :)
Pitting them just sound likes waaaaaaaaaay too much work.Sort of like picking crabs, by the time you’re done you’re not interestedin eating the meat!!! (no way)
I am growing pole beans for the first time (Romano beans). It has been a late season here, and my tomatoes and peppers are starting to show some blossoms, but these beans just seem to keep growing and growing with no blossom in sight. Is this normal for pole beans?
Maybe I just need to be patient, but geez this summer is going to be a seriously late harvest for all my veggies. Should have planted some lettuce, I’d probably be swimming in it right now.
Yikes!!!!!!!!
Mmmmmmmmm! Wish I had the access to sea food that you do!
Several of you have emailed or posted questions to me the past two weeks. I have not purposely ignored you, just have been out of town for a little R/R and a little business as well. Yikes .... 10 days of neglect of a garden can make it look like a jungle.
I’ll get back to you all later. I may be swallowed up by the jungle. No rain yet weeeds thrive and multiply. There is something so very wrong with that .... but it happens all the time.
Green beans out the kazoo ... and my first Rutgers tomatoe of the year fresh off the vine. I tell you, it is almost better than ......hmmm .... hmmmm...... fruit salad???
Oh no. Eating a piece of pie with the pits still in? That would be yucky.
I have to admit, I am spoiled when it comes to access to fresh seafood!!! So between fresh seafood and fresh veggies, I’m in hog heaven around here!!!
I’m so jealous of Jax and her marine science “school.” Yesterday they had a field trip to an aquaculture farm. Today they are at a UVA research center in a little town named Oyster!!! They are out in the marsh learning how to do water sampling and testing.
I still can’t get over how proud I am of her getting into Gov’s School, especially now that I know so much more about just how competitive it is. Granted the application process is only openned to the kids in the Talented and gifted program, but still -— she was competing against 5th, 6th, and 7th graders from 2 school districts for one of the only 30 spots available.
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