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Weekly Gardening Thread

Weekly Gardening Thread

[Red_Devil 232]

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[PA BOOKEND]

For the first time ever, I planted lima beans this year. Some of them have developed splotchy yellow on the leaves. (I cut those leaves off & threw them in the garbage.) Anyone know what? Why? Will it ultimately kill my plants?
I just did the pruning this week, so I don’t know if the infection (if that’s what it is) will spread.

[30Moves]

I have 16 quarts of Dill pickles put up. Lots of yellow squash - I froze those.

I am not sure about my potatoes - never tried them before - the plants are starting to wilt so I thought I’d try digging with a pitch fork. Any tips on potatoes?

What can I plant now for a late summer crop? East TN zone 6.

I am a newbie at this - but when I get frustrated with politics I go out an garden. At least I can produce food for myself and family. Goats and chickens next!

[PUGACHEV]

Why are some of the leaves on my otherwise healthy tomato plants turning yellow and brown? The are in good soil, they get plenty of water, and the diseased leaves are all in one area and on only two of my five plants. Could it be that it is too hot for the plants? It has been 90+ here for the last week or so.

[Petruchio]

Finally!

Got the main gardens in. Last year I was focused on fighting cancer, so all I grew here was weeds. I cleaned out all the raised beds with roundup. Then added a bag of manure and a bag of topsoil to each 4’ x 4’ bed.

I planted:
Red, Yellow, and Green Sweet Peppers
Yellow Beets
Red Beets
summer Squash
and Cucumbers

Everything is sprouting like mad. Yippie!

Also replanted the flower beds in the front of the house with dahlias and celosia.

My one remaining big task is to screen out the rocks from a flower bed alongside the driveway and replant it with dahlias.

[tubebender]

It’s been a very frustrating week for me as I have never seen so much sunshine but it is accompanied with 25 to 35 MPH winds plus I have had something to do every morning that takes me downtown or to a doctor. We did get 2 or 3 hours in the main garden and we are starting to slowly push back against the weeds.

Wife has picked 2 1/2 gallons of Raspberries in the last 5 days and I had to dig my Inchellium Garlic yesterday due the late rains causing the wrappers to rot. I’ll have to check my notes but I believe it is a couple of weeks early and the bulb are smaller but still acceptable. I fear they will not last as long in storage although a grower told me to peel and freeze them in Zipper bags. That should stink up the freezer real good.

I fertilized the strawberries and scratched that in and watered them. I held these plants over from last year and they are stunted and producing small fruit and it’s too late to replant. I also fertilized and hilled the corn which is about 8” tall and very healthy with plenty of moisture in the compost rich soil.

Of course as any gardener knows there are hundreds of little projects that get done as you walk through your garden and at the end of the day you can’t remember a single one and wonder why you got so little accomplished...

[tubebender]

We live and garden surrounded by Redwood trees in Eureka Ca and I can attest to this article that we are having less and less summer fog since I came here in 1954 from FResno County. Where's the Fog

Our 10 day forecast Note the temps which are typical and normal since we sit on the shores of Humboldt Bay

[neefer]

This gardening thread always makes me hungry. Our first crop of figs (breba) is almost ripe.



Here are both trees in early spring with few leaves. Panda was on squirrel patrol.

[Tatze]

More cucumbers this week, another 8 or so, but most were given away to coworkers. I haven’t sampled the pickles from last weekend yet, so don’t want to pickle any more just yet.

Still have loads of green tomatoes, none red yet.

Potato and sweet potato vines are looking great!

Not much yet either from the jalapeno or cayenne peppers. I’m thinking they may be over “shadowed” by the tomato plants. But I do have several green serrano peppers. I think they are supposed to turn red, but haven’t yet.

[dainbramaged]

Everything is behind this year due to the cool, wet spring in the Puget Sound region - our asparagus has produced nicely and strawberries are ripening. Bush and pole beans are coming along, as are the sweet peas and eight tomato varieties. Lettuce has done well with the weather along with a couple varieties of carrots, and we are trying brussels sprouts for the first time.
Getting ready to install a small electric surprise around the base of our six foot high chicken wire fence for the raccoons who climb over and devour our grapes. It runs on two D cell batteries and hopefully will deter the bandits.

[tob2]

Picking lettuce as fast as I can because 90 degree weather is too hot! Going to have lots of cherry tomatoes and lettuce for the weekend. The Jericho lettuce, however, was developed for hot conditions and is doing just fine.

[Free Vulcan]

2 ft of rain in the last month in a half. Two weeks late but I think I’ll get everything planted by this weekend.

[TSgt]

FReeper Help needed for black thumb of death!

I moved my garden this year due to poor drainage, i.e. standing water in the previous area, and used good mulch (twice shredded hardwood) to keep down the weeds. The plants and seeds were all planted in good clean Miracle-Gro soil. We have had excessive rain here in Southwest Ohio but the new location has stayed reasonably dry and the mulch has kept the weeds down. After all this effort my plant's leaves are yellowing, falling off and their growth is brutally slow. What am I doing wrong?

[MotorCityBuck]

Hello All! This site has a gardening thread! To Cool. I have not posted in a while as I have been busy working O.T., and building, and planting a new garden. The size is 55’ x 75’ x7’ .
My question is.What is safe to use to spray the entire garden with to kill the weeds, and not the produce? Ortho, Miracle Grow etc.
What I have growing: Sweet Corn, Potato's, Tomato's, Peppers,Beets,Beans,Cabbage,Lettuce,Radish,Carrots,Onions,Pumpkins,Gourds,Watermelons, and peas.
The weather here in Detroit has been Hot, humid, and plenty of rain late spring, and early summer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

MCB

[jetson]

Just a reminder of how you can use sunny spots not necessarily in the garden area for growing.

http://www.josho.com/gardening.htm

[winodog]

My zucchini plants look real healthy but the zukes get about three inches long and stop growing. Later on they fall off.

Thats one of the few things I have always grown with no problem