I’m relearning to garden in a new zone and smaller space...
Quite a change.
I can’t believe the seed shortages and price increases this year. I grew up a farmer, and still own the farm. But retired life and the desire for a warmer winter has moved me south much of the year.
Next year seed order is going in November or December...
Good morning Gardeners!
Hope all your veggies are growing great and safely!
I have a question.
How do you deal with orange garden slugs and snails?
How do you get rid of them?
How do you prevent them?
I’ve never had such an invasion before. They’re everywhere!
Thanks for any advice!
I’ve got lots of flowers on my cucumber plants but only one cucumber is growing....??
(Scroll down! Resource start at post 114 of the Jan 9-15 Thread!)
Here in the Big Valley I am overwhelmed with tomatoes, peppers, pickling cucumbers and bush beans.
Overwhelmed.
Too hot to can (110 today) so will try sun drying some things.
Post-monsoon, we’ve had 10 or so days of 90°+ daytime temps and rain forest humidity here in Central Missouri. Another cool front rolled through last night and dumped a couple inches of rain that we didn’t need.
Three of my 24 tomato plants are going to live. There are three others that are trying to snap out of it. The rest are toast. No salsa for Augie this summer.
The garlic is ready to harvest, I just need to muster the gumption to do it. Probably be Monday before it’s dry enough in the garden to work on that. If we don’t get more rain.
The squash and pole beans are happy. Canteloupe is happy. Kale isn’t liking the heat and the cabbages that were getting close to harvest folded up completely due to the heat last week.
I had two loads of gravel delivered on Wednesday. Had one load spread and the other went on the pile. I’ve used half of that already. I was hoping 50 ton would be enough to get the lane back in shape, but it’s going to take 75 at least. Ugh...
Here’s a chart for Amount to Grow for family of five of various veggies. Basically for a tractor garden and row length needed ranges from 10 to 1,000 feet. Might be handy in these times we live in. Can be reduced down to one person or even less. Tells you how much of each veggie is produced per 100 foot row which is handy. Some of those units are in bushels. Row spacing is listed for a tractor. (pdf file)
https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/WAiqtnpPAKQo9yX
Prepper thread will be up soon. I’m waiting for files to upload to my cloud. I’ll come back with a link to the thread when it’s up. This thread’s about Food which goes with gardening. Some of the files are for preserving.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where that tropical storm just dumped some badly-needed water. The plants appreciated it and the damned rabbits and woodchucks appreciated it more.
The extension was worried about the cottontail rabbit population being endangered and so seeded the area with them. Well, they are endangered in my garden! I put a load of birdshot from my .22 pistol into a big fat groundhog’s ass, last evening. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
I am in the middle of building critter-proof, easy access for Household Six fencing for each of the raised beds. Also emplacing t-posts for the east side of the garden fencing.
Slowly, but surely, I am getting nowhere!
Getting rain & heat in good proportions finally.
Been eating carrot & beet thinnings/greens. Spinach is long finished, and just letting some go to seed.
Fist time in years, my corn really was knee high by the 4th of July.
I just came in from placing poles for my “bush beans” to climb! They’re starting to flower, and have put out (so far) 18-24” runners.
Potatoes are healthy, and almost bug-free so far. They’re 30+ inches tall, and very bushy. They were given low N, high P, moderate K fertilizer, about 2” below the seed pieces, and no side dressing when hilled. Onions leeks, beets, rutabagas, and carrots got the same tx at planting. The onions also got a side dressing of it about 2 weeks ago.
The leek transplants are ready for a side dressing & hilling; the leeks from seed are ready to thin & transplant.
I started okra in peat pots, and didn’t get it set out until late June. It now has the second set of true leaves, and is starting to take off.
I’m paying the price of only half hearted gardening while I was both working, and working on other projects: only about a 1/4 of the half-runner speckled butterbean saved seed from 2018 germinated. I’ll have to save most, if not all of the harvest to plant next year.
Only 3 of the 6 new rhubarb plants survived a couple of back-to-back 2-3” downpours soon after planting: drowned & buried. Completely lost the parsnip seeds planted at the same time. At least the survivors are strong & healthy.
Scarlet Runner & Blue Lake pole beans are just about to start climbing the fence.
Thanks to the 1970s Hippie commune, I still have a thriving “crop” of amaranth, AKA “redroot pigweed”. At least their burdock is pretty much eliminated.
They shouldn’t have believed everything they read in Mother Earth News & Rodale’s Organic Gardening & Farming about “new” wonder crops.
I have some teeny tiny white bugs on my Italian kale plants that are leaving behind sticky itsy bitsy stuff (looks line shredded paper pulp) but do not seem to be easy the plants. No signs of bites holes or shredding of leaves.
Any idea what these may be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u79tiVcj8bY
I want this garden. Even a mini version, enough for us, would be fine.
Companion Planting for Pest Control is a handy one. https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/H8iLwmfLHiGFyjG
Question on tomato blight.
I know humidity and dew/condensation causes blight to spread.
Could laying floating row covers over the tops of the tomato cages prevent the dew from condensing on the leaves?
I was thinking it wouldn’t be necessary to completely cover the plants like for insect and pest control, but just across the top with the sides open, to keep the dew off.
