Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 06/11/2010 5:02:26 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It looks like from all the pictures and comments that most of your gardens are coming along great. My garden is about three weeks behind where it was last year at this time but all is well and it is coming along fine.
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Weekly Gardening Thread
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for your morning dining pleasure, folks:
http://vibrationnation.net/?p=72 (free greenhouse plans plus a video to watch)
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-mystery-crop-damage,0,187535.story?track=rss Mystery crop damage threatening hundreds of acres (for all you pathogen detectives our there!)
http://www.ampleharvest.org/ (for when there is just too much to eat, can, dehydrate, sell, freeze, bribe people into taking off your hands)
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Thanks for the links!
We’re getting plenty of rain here but not enough sun. My tomatoes are not flourishing.
I have a great garden growing. Except for the eggplant and brussel sprouts. My plants are almost idle, growing barely. Same as last year. Is there a specific nutrient or Ph I am missing? Garden is well composted with a blend of sheep manure and wood chips, shredded leaves applied last fall and worked in. Fresh compost was added to the planting when the eggplant was transplanted a couple weeks ago.
We have had a relatively wet spring, yet everything else is thriving.
Garden club meeting last night. Did a presentation on the fair booth. Going to feature Hybrid and heritage plants . The difference, the assets of each, and the outstanding of each....
Anyone with good information please ping me to it!
Also looking for Large posters of vegetables have found good flowers. We also have an excellent photographer in the club that will be contributing.
Also. Would like some concise information on the seed company problem....
My flower garden is doing beautifully :) Some day I will post pics. You tomato growers get busy, I love some fresh tomatoes!!
Leaves and certain types of wood chips are acidic. Some plants like acid soil, other don’t. You might need some lime. I put all the fall leaves from the yard on the garden, along with a healthy dose of chicken litter. Then, let it sit over the winter. In the spring it gets tilled in, along with some lime, a month or so before planting time.
We've had rain each of the past two Wednesdays, so that is really helping the garden.
Eggplants need warm weather and full sun. Too much water and they can get root rot.
We’re at the opposite end of the spectrum. We’re not getting any rain, lots of sun & high temps.
The squash is about done. Green beans are slowing way down.
I dug up about 2/3 of the taters & found about 2 potatoes per plant — I’m happy as a first time tater farmer.
And...we are starting to build up quite an inventory of tomatoes.
On the radar this morning, I noticed a nice small group of thunderstorms about 80 miles to the SW that, if they remain on their present course, we might be blessed with much-need rain.
I decided that when I run across interesting things, I’d save them for the momentous occasion that is the FReeper Weekly Gardening Thread, chief!
:)
Yeah, I noticed you guys along the I35 corridor & eastward, got lots of rain.
We just missed out being 55 miles west. We just keep getting flirted with raindrops & lots of thunder. All we can say right now is that it kept the temps a bit under the norm.
Glad to hear you are getting some rain this year. I am sooooo waiting on my first tomatoes this year!
Question from a PA resident: I covered my raised bed garden, which I created for the first time last summer, with a couple of inches of grass clippings last fall. To my surprise, the chives, oregano, thyme and parsley wintered over. All are doing well except for the parsley. It’s just not growing and some of the leaves are turning yellow around the edges. I think it’s missing a nutrient but don’t know what.
I have fed the garden with manure and peat moss. I put lime in the soil around the tomatoes.
Any suggestions for “perking up the parsley”.
Also, any suggestions to get basil growing quickly from seed. It’s taking FOREVER. I have two large pots of it and also two squares in the raised bed planted with basil as I like lots of it to make pesto to freeze. I planted it about 3 weeks ago and only have a couple of layers of leaves on most of the plants, if that. It must need something - or is it just a slow grower period?
Climate so far this spring has been good. April and May were warm with sufficient amounts of rain, but not too much rain like we had last year.
Squash and tomatoes seem to be coming along well.
Thanks for the help?
When was your last frost date? We were in the 30's at night just a couple of weeks ago. Crazy Spring, but that's typical New England weather. :)
I hope you get that rain.
Salad greens are near the end, peas are putting on. Strawberries have been wonderful this year. A little late but got almost everything planted.
This past winter we might have had a frost in mid to late February.
I planted most of my garden in mid-March and never looked back.
The rains were just about right and ongoing until the spigot got turned off sometime around the first of May.
We’ve had to start watering ever since.
I hate watering. Weeding is therapeutic, watering is torture.
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