Posted on 07/17/2021 5:45:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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In contrast to last year, Moderate to severe drought in Southern New England affects farmers by R.J. HEIM, NBC 10 NEWS Friday, August 21st 2020
Then there is Man mocks alligators, jumps in water and is eaten by alligators
Don’t throw out the pickle juice! Slice zucchini, plop in jar, next day...wonderful, flavorful zuc pickles!
Also, love the zook pasta. Copper River restaurants has them on the menu for low carb folks. I had never had them before...very tasty and made them with my first zuc 2 weeks ago.
I love Zoodles! I have a hand-held spiralizer from OXO that works great - though you need a reasonably-sized zucchini to use it properly.
So good with some Cream Cheese, fresh Herbs, Parmesan and S&P. Low carb & easy-peasy!
I don’t believe the chinese, or any other government, is capable of causing noticeable climate change, short of engaging in a total annihilation global thermonuclear war.
It’s just Mother Nature throwing a fit.
In recent memory, ‘93 and ‘95 were both a lot worse than this.
I worked in downtown KC during those floods. The Kaw emptied into the Missori River just north of the downtown. The entire office could look out the window and see river was within a foot of over topping the levee that surrounded the downtown KC Airport, but it held.
Its not really a Gardening thread subject, but there are some thoughts on the Chinese and weather modification here.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3911940/posts?page=1
The good thing now is that it looks like we will get some dryer July type weather. Looks like 80s and 90s all week!
“We certainly see a huge difference in yield as we have used the Chicken Soup for the Soil and also the same guy sells a natural tomato food which we used.”
I’m really happy that’s working for you! I was skeptical based upon the 2-3 page ads he had in some gardening magazines!
I REFUSED to pay $14 a bottle plus shipping for my beloved Algo-Flash this season. I switched to a lesser-known brand by me, Peter’s, and so far, so good. I gave them bone meal and egg shells to start, of course.
My tomato plants are HUGE this season, setting fruit and flowering, and not a SPEC of disease, except for my Roma-types, but they seem to always have SOME problem, no matter what variety I grow. *SHRUG* Having a dry year has helped, disease-wise. Other years? Not so much. :(
Most of my tomatoes are in the 65+ day range, so I won’t have ripe tomatoes for quite a while yet, other than cherry-types. I can wait - I KNOW what’s waiting for me on the other side! Eeek!
My Sweet Corn is tasseling! Excited about that. If I can find my potato fork - Beau? You used it last! - I want to dig some new potatoes this week. Yum! :)
Mom was here today and she went home with a HUGE bouquet of flowers, (Zinnia, Sunflowers, Black Eyed Susan, Cosmos, herbs for filler) cucumbers and zucchini.
We lost some lower leaves from blackspot on our tomatoes but we got the copper spray and used it. Also got a soaker hose which covers all the tomatoes. So no more yellow or black spot.
Holy Moly Batman... LOOK AT THOSE TOMATOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone have any idea on what is causing these symptoms in 1 of my Boston pickling cure plants?
Symptom droopy sad looking/limp leaves, not turning yellow, plant is still.lobingnand producing flowers....far ends of new growth look great and are not droopy/limp.
Planting bed is a 14ftx4 foot North to South long ways positioned. All pickling cake plants are doing great except for 2 slow flowers facing west, and the extreme southern most plant which is the droopy/limp culprit.
The problematic plant get more sun but not a ton more sun.
I tried watering it 50%less than the others....both less often and less water per watering.
No change.
I put up a shade cloth facing South to keep the first few hrs of sun from bearing down on the plant...nada.
All other conditiions/feeding/fertilizing are the same.
Kinda out of ideas here.
Check to see if you have Bacterial Wilt in that plant.
Bacterial Wilt
When your plant appears wilting all the time, it can be a symptom of bacterial wilt. To test if your plant has bacterial wilt, cut a drooping vine close to the crown. Now squeeze both edges of the vine together for a while and then gently pull the stems apart. If a sticky filament of ooze comes out, it means you plant has bacterial wilt. This is an incurable condition, and you must immediately remove and bury the infected plants to prevent the disease from spreading to other plants.
And if you DO have Bacterial Wilt, nuke it from space, just to be sure! ;)
Thanks! It decided to rain today for the 1st time in weeks.....trying to get motivated to go out in the rainy garden.
It’s easy to go out in the sunshine with a beer. I gotna lot of cleaning and reorganizing done out there last night while babysitting a 6 pack.
It was good timing to corral all the empty pits into a wooden crate that needed moved. Glad I didn’t put it off until today.
I just went outside and performed the check you recommended I did not see the signs that you described yeast, and as well the plant It is no longer 90% trooping it is now only 20% drooping the the cooler weather and the rain seems to have had a positive effect on it
Glad to hear that your cucumber is not lost! You’ll have to find something else to nuke from space, then. ;)
Does your ‘greenhouse cleaning method’ work with a bottle of Merlot or Pinot Noir? If so, I’m all in! :)
Mine needs some cleaning and organizing, but it’s just too hot this week, and I TRY not to drink Merlot in the cool morning hours. *SMIRK*
Mom & I organized ALL of the pots and containers, but they act just like Tupperware and are now all disorganized again! Grrrr! Time to thin the herd, I think, but it’s HARD to let go of perfectly good re-usable containers. And I complain about Beau and his pack-rat ways! ;)
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