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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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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!!
We've had rain each of the past two Wednesdays, so that is really helping the garden.
Can I be added to your list please? :)
Very amateur gardener here. We put in a raised bed since we live on a corner city lot and don’t have a huge yard. I’m glad we did, because we’re getting good well-draining soil.
We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, and onions. Our cherry tomato plant (planted 4, only one survived the dogs running through the garden, LOL) is almost taller than me—lots of little green tomatoes on it. The regular tomato plants are also tall and producing well. We have about 20 jalapenos in various stages of development over 4 plants. The cucumber plant is trying to take over everything, but I harvested the first two cucumbers yesterday morning and they are delicious. There are several more developing. The onions are almost ready (I think). The tops are starting to flop over, which I understand to mean that it’s almost time to dig them up.
We’re hoping to make some salsa, can some tomatoes and make sauce, and if we are blessed with more than we can handle, some is going to the local food pantry. We planted in mid-March, and despite a freak snowstorm a couple of weeks later, everything has done well. We’ve had some hot, humid weather, which is standard for the Arkansas river valley, but it’s been 10+ degrees above normal for this time of year.
Oh, and we planted 4 blue wave petunias out front of our oldest daughter’s window. They are enormous! The aphids tried their best to kill them off a couple of weeks ago, but I managed to do them in first, and the plants are looking as good as they did before.
We bought all our plants and seeds from a local nursery, since our daughter’s basketball coach owns 2 of them, plus a landscaping business. We haven’t been disappointed with the plants or the advice given on our first gardening venture.
Okay here is a question for all you freepers growing strawberries. I have a 4x8 strawberry bed, with around 12 plants, my strawberries were really putting out some nice berries the whole month of may ( enough to snack on, and get 1 pint of perserves, so sad.) Anyway they have completly quit producing, is this normal, or am I doing something wrong? They are june bearing plants, mulched well with straw, and this is their second year.
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.
I finished planting the semi-raised sq. foot beds and the very next day we got 2 inches of rain. We got all our “rain” barrels refilled (trash cans we bought and put under the eaves). We have about 6 or 7 cans of 30 plus gallons each.
My small bed now has dwarf corn, 2 different cantaloupes, 2 watermelons, 1 cuke, some beans, peas, lettuce, onions, carrots, and radishes. I planted the cool weather stuff where the adjacent flower bed shades them in the afternoon. They are supposed to be heat tolerant.
We are eating lots of salad from the garden. We have no decent tomatoes, but various lettuce, onions, and spinach for chef salads, citrus salads, and cyrano-type salad.
The strawberries did well, but are about finished for now. The grapes, tomatoes, cukes, peppers, blackberries, watermelons, and beans are doing well in hubby's gardens, but won't be ready till July and August for the most part.
Our butternut tree has prematurely dropped a bunch of nuts. We can't see anything on the tree. I guess it is possible that the wind did it, but I don't know. I did several searches, but so far have not found much. Anyone know of what could be causing this?
Happy weekend gardening to everyone.