Posted on 07/13/2019 6:57:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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When is the best time to apply fertilizer? During planting, during flowering, or during growth of fruit and vegetables?
Yay, gardening thread!
Starting my fall veggies this next week.
I got a bunch of lilies from jungs. Can I water them with fertilizer?
I always thought before or while flowering. Before fruiting.
How far along are they? Already growing, or just going into a planting hole now?
Paprikas and the Rezha peppers are kicking out.
The little dehumidifier is doing double duty !
We stopped by the local farmers market out of habit. Sweet onions were $1/pound. Mennonites were doing suspender-snapping business.
“Mennonites were doing suspender-snapping business.”
LOL!
Thank you. Trying to get a winter garden prepped for the first time in years. I seem to have acquired some unwanted bunnies.
I would say all along, but specifically befroe and while fruit appears, but it depends upon what kind of fertilizer you are using, for if slow acting then it should be worked into the soil early. This year I put some 40 lb. All-Purpose Fertilizer 10-10-10 in the hole before planting the plants that had been started indoors, then covered it with some dirt, and planted.
Weeks later I sprinkled some near the plants before rain, and a couple weeks later when I actually watered them (heavy rains about once a week meant I did not need to) I mixed some Miracle-Gro in the water.
Just some quick overhead shots of toms and butternut squash, thanks and glory be to God. The only real problems yet in this overcrowded city plot have been early blight on Goliath toms.
Even after the vicious hailstorm last week, my 2 little yellow crookneck squash plants are still with me, even the one that got broken off at the ground! Spotted tiny flower buds on the other plant, so... Tomatoes fared well, even in the hail, and are on the east side of the house, loaded with fruit and flowers. Chose Big Boy and Better Boy this year, just as an experiment.
I was pretty much doing that.
I gave them a little fertilizer to start. I didn't want them to get stunted roots because they had all the nutrients they needed without having to develop more roots.
Now that they're flowering and producing fruits so I'm 'increasing the dosage'.
Does anyone else use a greenhouse in conjunction with their garden?
Do you use a heater in it and go year round?
Ugh! I have lived in my current home since 1994 and have NEVER seen a bunny rabbit....until this year. They are everywhere in the Seattle area and are dodging my live traps.
The coyote population is going to explode next year.
Are they the little brush rabbits? (I’m in coastal Oregon.) Coyotes seem sparse this year. Maybe if I push back the blackberries further....Saw a baby today. I may break out the bow and take a couple of sporting shots at the big one... there’s never just one...but I sighted in the pellet rifle, just in case.
If you have a dehydrator, dehydrate the cucumbers and make ‘cucumber powder’. That’s good to add to homemade ranch dressing.
Already growing. Some of the asiatic lilies that were a really great end of season deal. They’re about 1ft tall now and just putting up the buds that will be blooms. We got a mixture so no clue about colors so we planted them in 3gal nursery pots to see what’s what before we plant them in the ground next year.
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