How Does Your Garden Grow??????

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
 
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.
 

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


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