How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[757growin]

peas r getting close here, I freeze 15-20 lbs for me an wife last all yrView attachment 4153701

Very nice garden.

 

[xtsho]

look pretty good. this is the time for a little calcium supplement, to stop bud end rot, although they look pretty good already

Save your eggshells for amending the garden. Lots of calcium.

peas r getting close here, I freeze 15-20 lbs for me an wife last all yrView attachment 4153701

Oh man. That's a lot of peas. Sure wish I had more room.

 

[too larry]

Not exactly sure what bud end rot is but I'm going to look it up thanks for the input

I use Miracle Grow (tomato) at recommended dose per gallon every Sunday and Wednesday

They grow in reclaimed Fox Farm ocean Forest it's very lite and they seem to really like it, this is third year doing it this way

Has anyone ever tried tomato spikes ? I'm almost out of my first box of MG, & was thinking of buying them but I've never used them and don't know much about them
I think the name of the company is like Jobe?

Also known as blossom end rot. Squash and the like are real bad to get it, but tomatoes and peppers do too. Epson Salts does the trick.

 

[too larry]

I watered everything before I went hiking on Tuesday. But when I got back yesterday, it was all wilted. So I went ahead and laid down a soaker for my pepper pits and trenches. Looked much better this morning. I still have to rake leaves and pinestraw to go on these two.


This is how much water I had turned on. We had a good shower this morning. So it's off now.

 

[too larry]

Yesterday when I got home, I picked the pole beans. Got about a handful.



Then I picked the peas. They are grassy and buggy, and won't be around much longer.



Just to be on the safe side, I walked though the pole beans again, just to make sure I hadn't missed any. . . . . Finding beans in the corn is hard.

 

[socaljoe]

Do any of you guys have experience using blossom set spray?

I grabbed a bottle to hopefully give me a better chance at getting tomatoes all summer long, as the heat has proven to be problematic when it comes to setting fruit.

Just curious if you've used it and if it worked.

 

[too larry]

Never used it. If it works for you, I might might give it a try. My Armenian cucumbers have lots of blooms, but no fruit so far. I think the heat is the culprit.

Do any of you guys have experience using blossom set spray?

I grabbed a bottle to hopefully give me a better chance at getting tomatoes all summer long, as the heat has proven to be problematic when it comes to setting fruit.

Just curious if you've used it and if it worked.

 

[socaljoe]

Never used it. If it works for you, I might might give it a try. My Armenian cucumbers have lots of blooms, but no fruit so far. I think the heat is the culprit.

I will report back if it makes a noticeable difference.

I've seen conflicting reports online. Some say it causes the plant to fruit without needing pollination, resulting in a low seed, faster maturing fruit. Others claim it causes no noticable difference in warm weather, but does cause misshapen fruit.

So we'll see what we see.

 

[Beachwalker]

Do you guys top your indeterminate tomatoes?

 

[socaljoe]

Do you guys top your indeterminate tomatoes?

I don't. Why would you? If you want secondary growth, let the suckers grow.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

i would if they ever seemed to need to be bushier, i usually have the opposite problem, they try to overgrow each other, have to keep training them to grow in different directions

 

[socaljoe]

i would if they ever seemed to need to be bushier, i usually have the opposite problem, they try to overgrow each other, have to keep training them to grow in different directions

Huh...well I guess there is a reason other than "it's too damn tall!".

 

[Beachwalker]

Nope, that's the reason, cuz my cages are 4 ft tall but last year my plants were six or seven feet tall and they fell over on themselves and it caused issues..


.. maybe I'll top one and leave one see what kind of difference it makes ? (Or I suppose I can buy some stakes)

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

give it a try, but you may end up having to thin out the lower growth, it'll get crazy thick

 

[socaljoe]

I've had that problem too. Damn plants get too tall!

You could put another cage on top of the existing ones, upside down, and tie them together. Just a thought.

 

[Beachwalker]

That's a great idea! I already have at least a half a dozen extra cages laying around ..that's a great idea! ..thanks

 

[socaljoe]

No problemo. Hate to see them lovely plants get decapitated.

Let us know how it works out for you. You may still need to tie the cage off to the fence behind it, but I think this will work just fine.

 

[BarnBuster]

I grow in containers now and use Espoma Tomato-tone (3-4-6, 8% Ca) and never had a problem with end rot. When I used to grow in the ground and 7-8' plants, I had some of the smaller gauge wire cages collapse under the weight so like socal says you may want to tieoff/support the stacked cages to the fence. I used to use those green T posts for support

BTW, here's an interesting site by Linda Chalker-Scott Re: Plants and such
https://puyallup.wsu.edu/lcs/

 

[too larry]

I ordered some trellis netting yesterday to use with the tomatoes. The kiddie pools with 5 plants per pool are already way above the cages. Not sure exactly how I'm going to use it, but I'll figure it out. I've got two rolls of it on the way.

https://www.amazon.com/Luster-Leaf-869-Trellis-30-Feet/dp/B008JBV4CA/ref=sr_1_8?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1529765566&sr=1-8&keywords=trellis+netting

 

[too larry]

This was a week ago.