woodeye
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Post by woodeye on Jun 22, 2012 7:41:10 GMT -5
Looking good!!
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Post by SPLASH on Jun 22, 2012 22:18:42 GMT -5
More pics later this weekend. I was using my "Troy camera" aka iPhone.
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Post by SPLASH on Jun 24, 2012 11:07:54 GMT -5
How about a pic update. Corn is almost knee high. Should be no problem having it over knee high by the 4th of July. Lots of small weeds near each plant. I fertilized with Blood meal again a few days ago and have only hoed inbetween rows. Need to hand pick weeds soon.  The Crimson Sweet Watermelon vines are greening up and shooting out. We'll see if I get any mature melons by late September.  Same shot of the onions, just an updated one.  They are getting larger.  The Ghost Pepper plant. It's growing, but still dropping flowers.  Habanero  Brandywine on the right, Mr.Stripey on the left.  Nice Cluster of Brandywine maters.  Mr. Stripey maters with stripes just starting to form.  Celebrity on the left and German Johnson on the right.  German Johnson mater, more higher up on the vine.  Two fruit clusters of Celebrities.  If you noticed the white powder on the soil in the mater pics, it is NOT Sevin. This raised bed has not had a single chemical in it in over 2 years. Going strictly organic. It is wood ash. Had a 12' dead tree branch blow out of a tree so I burned it and added the ash to the maters. They love the potash and wood ash is a great organic source of potash. Results of only organic fertilizing.   Pickling cukes just starting to vine.  The trellis they will climb. Cost of netting $5.00 cost of pvc and connectors under $9.00 Not losing any fruit to rotting while growing on the ground, More than $14.00  The inground garden Potatoes are going insane with top growth.  That trench inbetween potato rows, the seed potatoes were planted about 8" deeper than it.  Sweet Peppers  Jalapenos  Yellow straightneck squash and zucchinni  Slicing cukes starting to climb the fence.  Cantaloupe growing well and radishes.  Left is a Big Beef Hybrid and the rest are Rutgers.  Kentucky Wonder pole beans.  |
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Post by ScoutB on Jun 24, 2012 21:02:54 GMT -5
And that scarecrow looks sort of lifelike.......
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Post by SPLASH on Jun 25, 2012 14:31:16 GMT -5
And that scarecrow looks sort of lifelike....... Haha |
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Jun 25, 2012 19:15:51 GMT -5
My garden aint doing squat. My maters are probably 12" tall. Bunnies got my brocolli and cauliflower, banana pepper plants look dead. Only thing looking good arte the pumpkin plant and the squash. Too much neglect I think. Haven't been able to catch the rabbits but did trap one of the neighbors cat this morning, wonder if they will miss it?  |
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Post by SPLASH on Jun 26, 2012 14:24:25 GMT -5
Did you till in all the stuff I did? Been weeding? Watering? Pruning the mater plants? |
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woodeye
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Post by woodeye on Jul 2, 2012 20:52:59 GMT -5
What can I use to spray the leaves on my plants, organically that is. Something is eating some of the leaves on my pepper plants. I tried reading through the threads but did not find it. Thanks!
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 3, 2012 16:07:16 GMT -5
You'll have to experiment with the ingredients, but there is one. Try Googling it. You have to chop a habanero pepper really small, dry it, try to crush it (I think a blender and then lay it on a paper plate to dry would work) and put it in a spray bottle. Then you add black pepper and garlic to the water in the sprayer. You spray the leaves and it's supposed to deter bugs from eating.
I will be looking for a habanero at the grocery store this evening since mine aren't ripe and work with this recipe because I'm sure the cucumber beetles will be on my pickling cukes any day now, they hit the slicers in the other garden that gets chemicals. Used chemicals and they are dying.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 3, 2012 16:30:54 GMT -5
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 6, 2012 13:13:37 GMT -5
Here is what the storm did to my gardens. Potatoes are all layed over and some snapped off. I've been told they will regenerate, but if the plant is sending energy to do that, it isn't sending energy to grow potatoes.   My 4 footer mater plants are ok, just had to straighten the cages, but my onions are all layed over and some snapped. I pulled a few snapped ones and I'm not sure if the rest will grow anymore now. Onions stop growing when the tops fall over, that is when you harvest. These were still up so the onions were growing bigger so I'm leaving them, but if they don't grow any larger in the next week or so, I'll have to pull them. I'm not happy about that, I was just getting tennis ball sized ones and was ready for baseballs soon.    My corn was just starting to form the beginnings of ears, the tassels were visible inside the top of the stalk and then this. I was able to stand them back up and hill them so they are no longer laying down, but this can't be good at this stage of growth. This variety is only supposed to grow 4 foot or so high and some are almost there.   |
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 11, 2012 14:13:20 GMT -5
I have some pretty large maters on my German Johnson and Mr. Stripey vines. A few cantaloupes are growing, couple watermelons too. Ears are growing on the corn, I actually have another habanero too. Updated pics this weekend.
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woodeye
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Post by woodeye on Jul 11, 2012 16:37:19 GMT -5
I have been meaning to ask, what's up with the marigolds in the gardens? I have seen others do this as well.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 11, 2012 17:44:37 GMT -5
Natural repellant to many harmful insects. Watch out though, a few garden plants do not like being near them.
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Post by davess1 on Jul 12, 2012 20:17:56 GMT -5
Looking nice splash. Hope all the hardwork pays off. So it that ghost the infamous hot ghost chilli?
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