How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[too larry]

I got started on my next subterranean green house this morning. Ran out of time, but it won;t take long to finish. No sprouts yet from my pepper and tomato seeds, but it was 29F with a thick white frost this morning. {although it warmed up fast when the shovel was applied}

 

[too larry]

This reminded me that my soaker hoses were still turned on, and those brass 4 way hose connectors cost about 18 bucks. {it is now safely stored for winter}

 

[too larry]

Damn it. I ran down to the river house on the way to work, and I forgot to take a picture of the broccoli.

I did finish the green house. I got a few of the trays moved before the rain started.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Damn it. I ran down to the river house on the way to work, and I forgot to take a picture of the broccoli.

I did finish the green house. I got a few of the trays moved before the rain started.

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i wish i could do that, but the ground here is about 60% fist size or larger rocks...makes digging a hole that big an all day job unless you have a backhoe

 

[steve870]

where are you from to be growing outside this time of the year?

 

[SPLFreak808]

anybody know if these are beneficial? They kind of look like the leaf miners I've been finding, a little darker and appear slightly bigger, been having a crazy leaf miner/whitefly problem so I need all the beneficials i can get.

 

[kmog33]

anybody know if these are beneficial? They kind of look like the leaf miners I've been finding, a little darker and appear slightly bigger, been having a crazy leaf miner/whitefly problem so I need all the beneficials i can get.

Those actually feed on human scrote......
















Jk , I don’t know wtf they are I hate bugs

 

[SPLFreak808]

Those actually feed on human scrote......
















Jk , I don’t know wtf they are I hate bugs

Nasty little fucks huh, shit got real for me this year.

 

[kmog33]

Nasty little fucks huh, shit got real for me this year.

I had my moms in soil until pretty recently and as soon as I got it out of the room, gnats were also out of the room. Bugs are the worst.

 

[FresnoFarmer]

anybody know if these are beneficial? They kind of look like the leaf miners I've been finding, a little darker and appear slightly bigger, been having a crazy leaf miner/whitefly problem so I need all the beneficials i can get.

Do they fly or just crawl on the soil mostly? Could be phorid flies.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Do they fly or just crawl on the soil mostly? Could be phorid flies.

they look more like phorid flies than fungus gnats, but w/e they are, there are too many. if that many are laying eggs in your medium, you might have a problem. i'd make sure i was letting my medium dry out between waterings, and put a small fan blowing lightly between the tops of your pots and the bottom branches of your plants, makes it a lot harder for them to navigate. and keep it up with the yellow traps

 

[SPLFreak808]

Do they fly or just crawl on the soil mostly? Could be phorid flies.

They have wings, almost like they swarmed my plants or pots and got stuck to the yellow sticky traps.

 

[SPLFreak808]

they look more like phorid flies than fungus gnats, but w/e they are, there are too many. if that many are laying eggs in your medium, you might have a problem. i'd make sure i was letting my medium dry out between waterings, and put a small fan blowing lightly between the tops of your pots and the bottom branches of your plants, makes it a lot harder for them to navigate. and keep it up with the yellow traps

I was thinking oriental fruit flies but i don't know, I haven't caught them on any plants yet.

its been raining like crazy lately so yeah my soil has been a little more wet than im used to, mushrooms everywhere but been leaving them out for whatever sun i can get.

 

[SPLFreak808]

Better pic, fwiw I seen some new leaf miner damage on a few plants this morning. I'm leaning on leaf miners or some type of fruit fly. They are slightly smaller than a house fly, bigger than a fungus gnat. Last time i had leaf miners, they were black and yellow.

 

[FresnoFarmer]

Better pic, fwiw I seen some new leaf miner damage on a few plants this morning. I'm leaning on leaf miners or some type of fruit fly. They are slightly smaller than a house fly, bigger than a fungus gnat. Last time i had leaf miners, they were black and yellow.
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I would hit the plants with captain jacks dead big brew every 5 days for a total of 3 treatments. Worked on my pepper plants. That, and removing the affected leaves. Also beneficial nematodes may help to.

 

[DustyDuke]

Better pic, fwiw I seen some new leaf miner damage on a few plants this morning. I'm leaning on leaf miners or some type of fruit fly. They are slightly smaller than a house fly, bigger than a fungus gnat. Last time i had leaf miners, they were black and yellow.
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Good pic

 

[DustyDuke]

Pumpkins are starting to show, egg plants are flowering I’ll grab pics. I might put them in the ground, there still in pots.
The heat knocked out half my seedlings but I saved half. The corn loved it the most. Never actually grown corn so should be fun
Pumpkin flowers

Marijuanas gonna give it a burn just finished drying the rest is curing

 

[SPLFreak808]

I would hit the plants with captain jacks dead big brew every 5 days for a total of 3 treatments. Worked on my pepper plants. That, and removing the affected leaves. Also beneficial nematodes may help to.

Rotating back and forth with green clean and cold pressed neem seems to be the only thing effective at keeping bugs off my leaves, both last a good 48 hrs, I've been using dead bug indoor for years but i swear it only last for 30 mins on my outdoor plants, shits crazy lol

Sorry larry, I shouldn't have blew up your thread with this shit. I hope everyone's having a nice christmas this year.

 

[xtsho]

My garden is a dreary site but I have onions I started from seed that are overwintering. Red Torpedo and Walla Walla Sweets. They're growing but slowly. They'll take off when the weather warms up. I have some mustard greens that I've been eating off of and some carrots and beets which overwinter as well.

I'm planning out what I'm growing next season. As always I have more seed than space. With the limited space I have I think proper planning will make the space I have more productive. I'm going to try and get double crops in wherever I can. Anyway, even though nothings really growing right now gardening is still on my mind.

 

[too larry]

where are you from to be growing outside this time of the year?

If that question is for me, I'm in NW Florida. Still have to deal with winter, jut not as much of it as most folks.