How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry

too larry

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Sour Wreck said:
one of my potato plants yellowed up and died. found these underneath it.

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here is the plant next to where it was (healthy potato plant beside it). anyone know what is causing this?

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I hate to say anything good about Gainesville, but the UF Ag Dept is one of the best in the county. I use them all the time. Give this a look.

http://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/pests-and-diseases/diseases/fungi-and-plant-disease.html
 
socaljoe

socaljoe

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too larry said:
I saw a bloom on a squash this morning. Went to look, and saw a little squash. Also blooms on Acorn squash had opened up this morning.

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I had some saved acorn squash seeds, but somehow they up and walked away. Too bad, my dog loves acorn squash.

Putting some work into the garden today. Getting my heirloom pumpkins planted, they were outgrowing the starter pots. Need to do some tomato spots and leave a little area open for my neice and nephew to plant their sunflowers. I've got a soaker hose to route through the garden this year, ought to be more efficient than the old watering wand. Now I just have to keep the damn chickens out of the garden, those ladies can dig.

Perfect day for garden work, 61° and overcast.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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things are coming up nicely here in denver

on 3/15 i planted out:

-radishes
-onions
-potatoes
-strawberries
-lettuce
-spinach

and will be making a radish salad for mother's day tomorrow. potatoes are all up out of the ground, strawberries got dug up a lot by the chickens but what survived is greening out the crown now

on 4/15 i planted out:

-carrots
-beets
-swiss chard
-beans

and all tat is coming up nicely. always tough to get carrots to germinate well but got lucky this year

on 5/5 i planted into starter cups:

-bi color sweet corn
-pumpkins
-watermelon
-tomatoes
-bell peppers

and the corn is already popping up. they'll get transplanted to the fields once they get tilled and their borders sprayed for weeds

gave the fruit trees a great pruning during the first planting and they loved it. all the blooms avoided frosts and freezes except the early blooming apricots. no apricots this year but will have cherries, plums, apples, and peaches

only thing left to do at this point is plant sweet potatoes and transfer all the starter cups. then just sit back and water

i'll drop in and post some pics for you chumps once it all starts looking gardeny
 
too larry

too larry

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UncleBuck said:
things are coming up nicely here in denver

on 3/15 i planted out:

-radishes
-onions
-potatoes
-strawberries
-lettuce
-spinach

and will be making a radish salad for mother's day tomorrow. potatoes are all up out of the ground, strawberries got dug up a lot by the chickens but what survived is greening out the crown now

on 4/15 i planted out:

-carrots
-beets
-swiss chard
-beans

and all tat is coming up nicely. always tough to get carrots to germinate well but got lucky this year

on 5/5 i planted into starter cups:

-bi color sweet corn
-pumpkins
-watermelon
-tomatoes
-bell peppers

and the corn is already popping up. they'll get transplanted to the fields once they get tilled and their borders sprayed for weeds

gave the fruit trees a great pruning during the first planting and they loved it. all the blooms avoided frosts and freezes except the early blooming apricots. no apricots this year but will have cherries, plums, apples, and peaches

only thing left to do at this point is plant sweet potatoes and transfer all the starter cups. then just sit back and water

i'll drop in and post some pics for you chumps once it all starts looking gardeny
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I'd never seen large scale beet production before going to Colorado for the first time. Do you guys have "Big Sugar" like we do down here in Florida?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i just looked it up, nation wide, weather forecasters have a 90% accuracy rate...on next day predictions. the 5th day of a 5 day forecast drops down to 65% accuracy, and once you get past that, it drops down to 40% for the ten day forecast....i think i can do that good, or maybe better....what do they pay weather people?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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they got big sugar in minnesota. crystal sugar has a beet plant in moorhead, every spring for about a month the trucks tear up the county roads getting the beats to the plant, then the plant stinks like a sewer for a couple of months....then you forget about it for the next 9 months
 
too larry

too larry

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i just looked it up, nation wide, weather forecasters have a 90% accuracy rate...on next day predictions. the 5th day of a 5 day forecast drops down to 65% accuracy, and once you get past that, it drops down to 40% for the ten day forecast....i think i can do that good, or maybe better....what do they pay weather people?
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You need a nice set of tits these days to be a good weather "man".
 
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