Posted on 06/28/2013 1:01:56 PM PDT by greeneyes
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What a great idea. That idea will be put in our community garden for cukes and melons. I think most of our plants will be vertical growing the next time around. For fall and winter, I think will be tubers and the cabbage family.
The couple who’ve made our keyhole gardens use curbed rebar attached to the inside of the garden wall to hold the nets in place. Yes, with a deer challenge you will need dome.
Thanks for the great cattle panel idea.
When did you start them? I put mine out in late Oct or early Nov. They are like any other bulb plant and grow well in cold weather.
I have a couple of syrup pots with cukes and peppers in my garage, door open during the day with a fan on low, trying to keep them kinda cool. Tomorrow is 1 July, if it’s hot now, what are the dog days of August going to be like.
OH! I put mine in in March. I’ll plant them in Oct or Nov
Thanks Arrowhead.
A friend of mine picked up 2 tomatoe plants that had a sign on them that read “Save Me”, so she bought them and brought them to me. Now I’ll put them in a syrup pot with the 3/% rock phosphate. I’ll strip off all the stems and plant it deep. I’ll keep them in the open garage with the fan on. I have very little shade in my yard, except the front, facing the golf course.
Besides being better for the plants, it uses a heck of a lot less water. I use heavy mulch and drip irrigation only.
/johnny
“if it’s hot now, what are the dog days of August going to be like.”
Wellll, in Aug./Sept., that’s my best time for a hurricane and that cools the air for a day or two - wait, a hurricane is not good.
Note to self: That doesn't mean heavy labor won't cause heat stroke. Cooler is a relative term.
/johnny
“Cooler is a relative term.”
That is so true. Stay inside and be as cool as you can. Heard on the news this morning, an elderly man died in his house because he couldn’t afford to run his air conditioner.
Wet a cloth of some kind and run it over your face, rest of head, neck, arms and have the fan turned toward you and that will lower the temp of the ambient air around you - it will be “relatively” cooler.
Neem oil worked very nicely on my peach tree last year. Didn’t need to use it this year.
I seem to have a new pet. It's a wood lizard that hangs out near the back door. He/she(?) follows me to the herb/salad garden and has done this for several days in a row. Maybe I'm stirring up bugs for it to eat.
I shall call him/her/it Fang.
I hope I don't step on it.
/johnny
I’m glad to know that. Do you know if it is a repellant, or does it actually kill the bugs? What was the concentration you used? How often did you apply it? Thanks!
It's funny though, everyone told me that tomatoes love the heat. I've seen them grown in Iraq under plastic sheeting, (and it gets 120+ in the summer there) yet I've the biggest success I've had is when I use the 30% shadecloth.
That depends. Everyone is telling me that it'll take a couple big hurricaine-like storms to get the Edwards Aquifer back up to where it needs to be.
A tropical storm will help the Edwards Aquifer but a hurricane can blow me away and put me without power for a week or more, so I “x” the hurricane.
Or take a hot water bottle and fill it with ice, put on your head and hold it in place with a hat or cap. It works. I bought one of the strips of cloth with expanding jells inside. I wet it, tie it around my neck, it works for awhile.
I’m in central Texas, close to Waco. I’ll put one tomato plant in my key hole garden, it’s roots can go down 4 feet it it wants to. The other I’ll put in a 3 foot high pot. Thank you for your help. I’m a DUH gardener.
It’s listed as a pesticide.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/PNAI/pnaishow.php?id=53
It’s also toxic to honey bees, and should only be applied in the evening when bees won’t bee doing their beedniss.
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