How Does Your Garden Grow??????

Sour Wreck

Sour Wreck

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too larry said:
Most years I hit the wall in August, and just walk away from the garden.

I'm hoping to get the new stuff set up where it's easier to deal with. The plan is to put the cukes out in the broad bean patch using netting tied to the fence. I already have two sprinklers setup and mulch around the beans. I just need to amend the soil along each side and bring in a little more mulch.

The reason I am having to plant more squash is mine isn't doing shit. What has came up isn't really growing like it should. {the seeds are new, and not coming up very good. In the cups I will be able to tell if it's the seeds or poor soil or too hot temps}

I am making a few cukes, but not like I should be. The Picklebush was a flash in the pan. Two to three weeks of good fruit, then they all died. The last round {Tendergreen} are just now maturing. We had one at lunch today.
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it was 108 here today. i already hit the wall. but my peanuts still live on...
 
GreenHighlander

GreenHighlander

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A few shots of my little garden.
A bed with parsley, onions, cabbage, strawberries, and one broccoli plant. Lettuces, kale, cilantro, and sunflowers in the containers. A tomato plant is strung to an apple tree to left.
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Found a junco nest in my lettuce. It had 4 eggs last I looked.
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Some tomatoes , basil, and two pepper plants.
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First year of producing plums for this tree
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Cheers :)
 
thumper60

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too larry

too larry

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thumper60 said:
u should have known better! gotta stake them matters just like the other plants I get more damage trying to stand them back up
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I had one stake in each of the kiddie pools, with all the cages tied together. The dirt gave way and the stakes slipped. I used the opportunity to cut out a lot of the Yellow Pear. It had grown over the top of all the other tomatoes.

But yea, I have to put in some T-posts and run the trellis netting around everything.
 
thumper60

thumper60

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too larry said:
Do you do anything special when planting sunflowers? I planted a few, and they didn't come up. If I had thought of it, I would have put a few seeds in cups when I did the other stuff.
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I started those in march indoor, late April put right in the ground inside green house the packet said giant so they ya go.larry we got some of the best soil in the world here,but man some shitty growing weather
 
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Beachwalker

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Just bought this, how do I use it to stop blossom-end rot on tomatoes?

Was planning on spraying it on initially? Also adding it to nutrient solution.. I have never used this before, will this work ?

What's the proper ratio for both spraying and watering in? -thanks in advance for any info!

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First tomato yesterday, planted them 14th of May (as sweet as it looks! :mrgreen: BLT's today!)

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Beachwalker

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
just water with it once a week, at about 200 ppm, it's got a lot of N so replace a feeding with it.

https://www.fertilome.com/product.aspx?pid=7dc115e5-1fcb-434f-9da7-3ed4c3c0d64f
i use this once a week, get around the N that way
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Thanks for the information! I looked at that type product too (I think it was from bodine) but I wasn't sure which way to go, and they just shipped this stuff and they won't take it back

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Was hoping to also use this 'indoors' by replacing the GH Flora Grow part with this, will that work ?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Beachwalker said:
Thanks for the information! I looked at that type product too (I think it was from bodine) but I wasn't sure which way to go, and they just shipped this stuff and they won't take it back

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Was hoping to also use this 'indoors' by replacing the GH Flora Grow part with this, will that work ?
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probably. i use it with jack's, in veg. if you're mixing it with anything, add the cal-nit first, and make sure it's dissolved good before you add anything else
 
socaljoe

socaljoe

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too larry said:
Sounds good. Our salad was cherry and brandywine tomatoes, bell and jalapeno peppers, Armenian and picklebush cukes. Also had the Indian broad beans cooked with potatoes, okra and a pot of peas. {all of that but the potato was out of the garden} The wife has been cooking the okra in the nuker. Just put a littler olive oil in a glass bowl. Add salt, pepper, garlic, parm or whatever, cover with stretch wrap leaving a gap at the ends. Then cook on high for 3-5 minutes, according to how much you have. Pretty damn good.

I have been eating salad, stir-fry, broad beans and okra everyday for lunch for a couple of weeks now.
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I thought of this post a few days ago when picking some tomatoes and cukes. I ended up making a nice little tomato and cucumber salad using black krim tomatoes, Armenian cucumbers, red onion, salt, pepper, olive oil, red wine vinegar and some crumbled feta. Mix it all up and let it set in the fridge to marinate, damn tasty.
 
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