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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Delighted that you enjoy the thread. It is a nice break from all the politics and everyday drama.
Amen! and thank you!
Hope I didn’t plant the wrong one, LOL! It gets a bit bigger than ‘Tumbler’ versus ‘Tumbling Tom’ which might be the one you’re growing?
Took the precaution of bringing plants inside due to chance of frost and snow with a cold front coming through. I had the plants in containers on the railing of the deck to get acclimated to sun and wind. Well, I had the sliding glass door open and a hummingbird flew right inside and was bumping into the windows trying to get out. I chased that little guy all around the house before I finally caught it. I let it go on the deck and he flew away quickly.
My garden size has not changed. I just rotated my tomatoes to the rear of the garden and shifted my pepper plants around and added a few okra plants plus I just planted some Butternut and Buttercup squash. Since I eliminated Habanero, Tabasco and Cayenne peppers this year I still have a row to plant something in. Don't know what yet.
I am growing red and yellow ‘Tumbling Toms’...I wasn’t aware of the ‘Tumbler Tom’...just thought it was a variation on the name. Two different varieties...got it.
My first encounter with a bunch of hummingbirds was many years ago while attending a Geology field camp at Northern Arizona Univ. in Flagstaff. I was resting, sitting on a rock, over looking a meadow of flowers and the hummers would just come right up to my face about two feet away check me out and flit away. It was hard for me to get up and leave that spot.
Thanks for the up date on your drip system. Your eggplant may need a little extra side dressing of fert. or Miricale-Grow especially since it is flowering - they need a little extra when flowering and setting fruit.
Excellent choices!
That's mostly where I need help, but then again, I guess I'm not doing too badly this year. Last year on the other hand...
If you have everything for a meal coming from the garden, you must live in God’s Country. Here, we don’t have tomatoes and lettuce at the same time. That seems to be an error in God’s plan. Perhaps He wants me to move back to TX, although my gardening efforts there were not too successful (Houston). LOL
I'm still harvesting from chives I planted more than 20 years ago in SE WI (Zone 4).
[Your eggplant may need a little extra side dressing of fert. or Miricale-Grow especially since it is flowering - they need a little extra when flowering and setting fruit.]
Ah. Thanks for the tip. This is only the second year I’ve tried to grow eggplant... last years attempt got eaten by rabbits.
Mircacle grow I gots, and will apply as directed.
>>I bet she enjoy every min.!
She is a joy.
Yep! I sprayed all my plants with Insecticidal Soap a few days ago. Now I need to go buy another bottle. That stuff sure is expensive for a 20 oz. bottle but it did last me one and a half years. It was $11.00 when I bought the last one so I guess it will cost more today.
How does your auto-fill via the toilet valve work? In my mind it would need to be in the tank.
If this hasn’t been answered already, basil needs a lot of warm weather to grow, and then it grows like crazy. The basil I bought in the garden center is doing great. It is big and lush and already trying to go to seed. However, the one surviving basil plant that I started from seed in my basement is still tiny, but doing better out in the garden. It is still only about 2 in. high.
In the past, basil seeds profusely and starts many volunteer plants, but they all die when I try to bring them in in the Fall.
I use MG Bloom Booster (15-30-15) on my eggplants and other plants when they start blooming. I just hand feed each plant from a 5 gal. bucket of the mix using a plastic cup. The plants all seem to enjoy this drink now and then.
My basil is wanting to flower. I have to check almost every day and pinch off the green flower tips. I love the wonderful smell when doing that. It is my understanding that once they flower they stop growing - but hey I am just a novice. Someone here will let us know.
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