I bought some calla lily plants and their leaves are drooping and turning yellow. I put them in potting soil in containers. What am I doing wrong?
I’m losing my squashes to some sort of rot. I put Sevin dust on them 3 weeks ago to take care of the squash bugs. Then they started rotting at the stems and the fruits so sprayed them with a 3-fer fungicide/insecticide/something. I’ve read to add calcium but don’t know anything about that. They get watered every other day because of the heat. No, I don’t use mulch as that tends to add to the problems here. Any suggestions on how to save them?
I have a horrible garden story to share. My 4 year old pulled “weeds” in my garden while outside playing yesterday. When I went to water, all but two of my tomatoes were gone. I felt sick! After struggling to get them to grow from seeds, they were gone in a matter of minutes.
We put seeds directly into the ground yesterday afternoon. With any luck, I may have a few tomatoes before the first frost date. *sigh*
Weather in South East/Central Missouri has been unusually dry for May. Hope it doesn’t continue into June. We could probably get another batch of strawberries, but we don’t want to water them this early in the season, so unless it rains, the berries are done.
Male kiwi expired again, so females will have no fruit again this year. Orchard is coming along nicely. We are cutting oak trees to make way for additional fruit trees.
Wild blackberries are smaller this year probably due to sparse rain. Hubby has his gardens completed. I am still sowing my raised beds, planting in 2 week intervals, so the crop will be somewhat staggered.
Have a great weekend everyone. God Bless.
I found out this week that those seeds that I assumed just weren’t growing, probably were growing, but something furry came and ate them. This time it took out all but one of my watermelon seedlings, and left a hole almost deep enough to qualify as a tunnel. I’m grating some soap out there to try and keep it away, and replanting one LAST last time. The soap is a handmade one that we got as a gift, but has so much essential oil in it that nobody can stand the smell! We had it sitting in the garage to keep the mice away. As for the seeds I’m replanting, I’m using every trick I know of to make them sprout fast. Hopefully they can catch up. It’s all summer veggies, no long-season stuff, so I should be able to get at least a little out of it.
The strawberries are starting to slow down, but I think it’s because they need rain, not because they’re done. The last few pickings were very tart. Great for cooking with, but not so much for fresh eating unless you enjoy reflux. Last night mom watered them for a while, she’d had a bad day at work and felt the need to shoot something, and decided that shooting water at the ground was probably her safest bet! I love my mom.
I got permission to add some “potato towers” to the backyard garden, and got the first one up ad planted. Like with everything, the work goes kind of slow due to my messed-up shoulders, but it gets done eventually.
Need some advice on something: one of the neighbors apparently hired a lawn service, and among other things they sprayed something on the fence line, probably Roundup but we’re not sure. All we do know for sure is that there is suddenly a 3-foot wide strip of dead grass on BOTH sides of the fence. Dad says that because the runoff from that area with go near my raspberry patch, the entire patch should be either moved or destroyed because it’s now pure poison.
This is the same dad who picks and eats soybeans out of a freshly sprayed field, and makes fun of me for expressing concern. He has also been trying to convince mom and I that the raspberry patch needs to be moved or destroyed, starting exactly 2 weeks after he decided to put it where it currently is. Maybe I’m biased or maybe I’m too close to the problem, but his logic doesn’t seem to track. Is anyone familiar enough with herbicides to tell me if my raspberries are about to turn poisonous because the neighbors sprayed something uphill from them?
(The patch itself is big enough that I seriously doubt that it would kill many of the plants themselves.)
Corn on the cob via microwave video
(corn on the cob via microwave video)
I have lost count of the times we have had this for supper, so easy and so good...a little melted butter and salt. I've no idea where our fresh corn is coming from here in Tucson, but our greengrocer man loves this way of fixing ContheC, and finds us the freshest he has...good marketing! Enjoy!
On and off (mostly on) light rain this week around Tampa. It’s gotten very green, very fast.
If anyone has a recipe for salsa that cans well and wants to share, I would appreciate it. It’s time to put up some tomatoes, probably the last until fall, and I’ve got cilantro that’s about to be coriander.
Made a lasagne this week with zucchini slices instead of pasta noodles. It was really good. Going to try to see if I can freeze some “noodles”. First try failed miserably, as the slices were too thin and they just fell apart after blanching. Plenty more where that came from.