Second question, do any of you all have experience with the Park Seed bio-dome system?
Got hit with black spot....Pulled some tomato plants after stripping off the tomatoes. Sprayed rest of the tomatoes with baking soda, veg oil and Dawn. It’s suppose to protect the leaves. Seems to be working.
The future of food: Why farming is moving indoors
“Ten shipping containers dominate a corner of the Brooklyn parking area, each full of climate control tech, growing herbs that are distributed to local stores on bicycles. This is urban farming at its most literal.
The containers are owned by Square Roots, part of America’s fast-expanding vertical farming industry, a sector run by many tech entrepreneurs who believe food production is ripe for disruption.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3774051/posts
I personally like the idea, and hydroponics is great for SOME things like salad greens and herbs, but I’ve yet to see anyone grow nutrient-rich veggies on a large enough scale in this way, such as tomatoes or peppers (Lycopene, Vitamins C,K and E, Calcium, etc.)
Please correct me if I’m wrong!
EEE and West Nile Virus have recently been discovered in this area. The plan is to spray on Monday evening. Until then, time spent in the garden will be severely restricted. Some horses had to be euthanized, sadly.
The meat chickens are getting big enough that I’m thinking of harvesting a few earlier than anticipated. So now dad has decided he wants me to find homes for them instead.
*facepalm*
Well, my 7-foot (whatever it is) snapped off about 7-10 days ago so it’s about 4-feet tall. It’s not a vegetable plant anyways.
The other big one is putting out yellow flowers - it’s tall - big leaves - I’ve seen this grow before. It also must infect that store-bought soil. Little round blooms, about the size of 4-5 stacked nickels and then a flower pops out.
New tomatoes started - I’m wondering if somehow those are Sweet Million though I can’t imagine how the seeds would have gotten there. More likely small tomatoes like Roma but they never achieve that shape. Just small and round but some get bigger than cherry tomatoes.
The other tomato plants and pepper plants, the few that have survived, are looking good. Except I put them in too late. We’ll see if there’s time for them to be harvested of anything. Sept / Oct should be good weather, usually. If the weather doesn’t go bad, I may need those first two weeks of November. We’ll see.
Does dish soap kill soil fungus around plants? I have a Satsuma mandarin in a large pot that has toadstools popping up. Removing the soil and replacing, washing off roots and stems can be done, but will be a mighty chore. :o( (how about oxyclean?)
I have these gorgeous cucumbers that are producing well but they are slicing variety not pickling variety.
They are degrading rapidly after being picked so I don’t believe I’m going to use them again but just plant the pickling kind.
I picked all my grapes yesterday because some varmints ate about half of them. I saw an inch thick pile of spent grapeskins behind the chicken wire on the fence.
I wound up with 21 pounds of grapes but 4 1/2 of them are still green. All of them are in the freezer, in 3 1/2 lb baggies along with some meat I need to can. No time for canning right now.
Finally got a couple pounds of ripe tomatoes! Whooppee! I gave my mom some tomatoes and cucumbers and made a big bowl of salsa yesterday after doing yardwork all day.
We made superburritos for dinner.I used canned pork and canned pinto beans that I doctored up quickly and threw some rice in the cooker with tomato, chicken and GOYA seasoning.
Cheese already grated, chop avocados and there you have it.
We only used a half pint of meat!
Before I started canning I would cook a mess of meat in the crockpot, beans in the pressure cooker, make salsa, make salad make rice without cheating I’d be cooking for hours.
I love canning. I can have a delicious healthy meal with a minimum of effort and no weeks worth of leftovers to deal with. Best fast food ever.