Posted on 09/19/2020 6:51:29 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I agree with Diana. Videos are the best.
Also concur with dried milk suggestion and I will add Liquid Kelp fertilizer.
All of my plants of every type LOVE that stuff.
I mix up about 4 tablespoons with a gallon of water. Put a splash on the ground at each plant about 1x week at transplant time and beyond...along as I am trying to promote green growth.
My tomatoes and peppers, notorious for not growing well or fast here in the PNW, would grow 25-40% larger in the 36 hours after giving the plants this fertilizer.
When I had to go through these plants every other week when they were mature and hack out 60% of the vines and branches they were growing so much.
When you are trying to get fruit set I stopped giving the kelp to them.
As an example...my neighbor and I both have South facing gardens and planted tomato plants at the same time.
I had some Black Krim plants and Sweet 100 cherry tom plants that I transplanted into raised beds 18 inches deep and later I had to chop a foot off of the top of each plant when they were reaching 7 feet high. My bamboo poles I staked them to were not tall enough to let them get tha high
No posts yet from the heatwave/drought sufferers.
55 degrees here, drought continues, central Connecticut.
Zone 6. Late cukes still growing. Sunflowers peak.
I finished knotweed eradication 2 days ago. Back to regular yardwork. I don’t know how to do photos yet.
“Oh lord that is horrible” The smell was horrible too.
Oregon Coast. I was going to send them to my brother who brews.
I planted tomatoes in containers outdoors, and only got 3 or four tomatoes. So I cut off a healthy looking section of an indeterminate one that was still alive, about 3 weeks ago, stuck it in fresh potting soil and peat moss, in a new planter, and kept it watered. So far I have 2 tomatoes and more flowers forming. I’m going to move it indoors if heavy frost is indicated, but here in NE Oklahoma, we may get a frost, the get up to 70 or 80 the next day, so I’m hoping I can get a good producing plant before it gets cold.
If you can keep it where temps are 50 degrees and above and keep it in full sun, it just might work!
I’ll post pictures later of my unheated ‘greenhouse’ experiments that I’m starting up here on The Frozen Tundra.
We had temps in the 40’s last night...but it was worth the crystal-clear sky and the Milky Way visible right above me! :)
Thank you! I’ll have to see if I can find it. Zinnias are so easy to grow & last so long, they have become a favorite for color all summer & into the fall at our place.
I have an orange and lime green combo going on right now, LOL!
I believe I have figured out what these are! I think they are Brandywine.
If they take FOR-EVER to ripen, are big, fat and lumpy with a few splits in the shoulders then, probably. ;)
Yes...exactly. as soon as it started raining they split...but the ones that split only a little scabbed over on their own.
Oh dear that is so sad. Thank you for the info.
I’m going to send her some cash and a Care Package. Such a shame.
Sorry so late to the thread. I have a good bit of lemon verbena in a pot. It grew very big. It smells heavenly every time I walk past it. Does anyone have any special recipes or ways they use it? I haven’t tried yet, but I’m dying to do something with it.
When I have chicken or fish in a marinade, it’s nice to add a handful of (lightly crushed) Lemon Verbena leaves to the mix for the lemony flavor it imparts.
I’ve put sugar and fresh leaves in a blender, then put it in a covered jar for a lemon-infused sugar that’s great in tea.
You can infuse the leaves in vinegar for a lemon-flavored vinegar.
Lemon Verbena Pesto. Never made it, but it sounds good, again, with fish or chicken:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/charred-green-beans-with-lemon-verbena-pesto-395330
This should work. Just prior to the first frost, I have cut off branches that had tomatoes and/or flowers and stuck them in a couple of big pots.
Most survived-the tomatoes ripened, and many of the flowers formed new fruits. I pulled a couple of the best branches out and kept them going all winter in a sunny place. Slow but continued to produce flowers and fruit all winter.
Each joint is capable of forming roots.
Thank you! I have to try ALL of these!
I can’t get over how wonderful the plant smells when I walk past it. This is my first experience with it.
No one EVER gets tired of Lady Bender’s lovely strawberries!
I’m hoping a week of DRY dried out my Raspberry Patch well enough so it could start producing a bit again. We shall see!
I grow ‘Heritage’ which I cut down in the spring so I get one late-season crop versus drips and drabs all summer. Also, the Japanese Beatles and Picnic Bugs (also a beetle) are gone by then, so little damage to my crop from those jerks.
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