thumper60
Well-Known Member
potato blight to late to spray u will still get taters make sure not to compost that shit burn it
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
- Thread starter Larry {the} Gardener
- Start date
![photo[425].JPG](https://www.rollitup.org/data/attachments/3235/3235115-a826f1cdfcaaf3557b9ddf28ae95524b.jpg?hash=qCbxzfyq81 "photo[425].JPG")
Sour Wreck
Well-Known Member
Sour Wreck
Well-Known Member
too larry
Well-Known Member
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
too larry
Well-Known Member
Your soil might have got too hot and dry. Try more mulch.
socaljoe
Well-Known Member
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.
socaljoe
Well-Known Member
This is definitely not normal for my area, usually we're around the mid/high 80's working towards the hotter days. But I'm not going to complain, we'll have plenty of 100+ days to make up for it.
too larry
Well-Known Member
Spring has been cool and dry here. Hope that changes with the rain forecast for next week.
socaljoe
Well-Known Member
A bit of rain would be nice. We've got some in the forecast midweek, but I'm not holding my breath.
too larry
Well-Known Member
We have 8 days of possible rain in the 10 day forecast. But I will believe it when I see it.
UncleBuck
Well-Known Member
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
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
Well-Known Member
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
Well-Known Member
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?
UncleBuck
Well-Known Member
i think we do
i used to drive by a few sugar beet farms on the way to the grow shop when i was living closer to boulder. pretty cool stuff
Roger A. Shrubber
Well-Known Member
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
Well-Known Member
You need a nice set of tits these days to be a good weather "man".
