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put the bucket tomatoes in, a hanging yellow bush type cherry tomato on top, 2 sweet 100 cherries out the bottom, need a higher hook, next week. good thing i did raised beds a couple years ago, the rivers high this spring, the blueberries and cranberry bog is loving it
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With all the unending rain the squash and zuchinni are rotting on the vine. The cucumbers and blueberries are doing well though and the peppers and cherry tomatoes have started ripening.
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Gulfcoastguy said:With all the unending rain the squash and zuchinni are rotting on the vine. The cucumbers and blueberries are doing well though and the peppers and cherry tomatoes have started ripening.Columbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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Green beans and zuccini going crazy with daily harvests
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Does any one have any thoughts, on using the ash from the Egg
as fertilizer?
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G_S said:
Does any one have any thoughts, on using the ash from the Egg
as fertilizer?
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April was a waste of time but May was warm and everything took off apart from the chillies, which are still small. First green tomatoes on the vine, not long now. Courgettes growing like triffids, first harvested today.
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My attempt at a garden. First poblano and first Tomato
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Anyone want to help a brother out. First time doing bell peppers. This doesn't look right.
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saluki2007 said:Anyone want to help a brother out. First time doing bell peppers. This doesn't look right.
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@Eoin Should it be turning black where the stem and stalk meet? After the bloom it looks like the fruit is turning black and almost looks like someone took a torch to it.Large and Small BGECentral, IL
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saluki2007 said:@Eoin Should it be turning black where the stem and stalk meet? After the bloom it looks like the fruit is turning black and almost looks like someone took a torch to it.
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All the times i grew bell peppers they looked the exact same and turned out great.Franklin, Tn
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TN_Sister_State said:All the times i grew bell peppers they looked the exact same and turned out great.Large and Small BGECentral, IL
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@saluki2007 have you had a lot of rain? Keep an eye on it. If could be fungal disease if pepper turn black and fall off. Sometimes it's a lack of calcium. I usually sprinkle Epsom salts around my peppers when they are fruiting. Don't let it touch the stem but close enough that it can pull it in. Keep an eye on it once fruit sets.Columbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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Chubbs said:@saluki2007 have you had a lot of rain? Keep an eye on it. If could be fungal disease if pepper turn black and fall off. Sometimes it's a lack of calcium. I usually sprinkle Epsom salts around my peppers when they are fruiting. Don't let it touch the stem but close enough that it can pull it in. Keep an eye on it once fruit sets.Large and Small BGECentral, IL
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for the calcium you can add shells as well, egg mussel, oyster, etc. the mulch i buy is loaded with mussel and sea urchin. the tomatoes and peppers seem to grow better in it and adding it the soil is getting better every year
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fishlessman said:for the calcium you can add shells as well, egg mussel, oyster, etc. the mulch i buy is loaded with mussel and sea urchin. the tomatoes and peppers seem to grow better in it and adding it the soil is getting better every yearLarge and Small BGECentral, IL
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picked about 2/3's of the garlic scapes, into a sweet pickling brine with some freshly picked cayennes. first time growing garlick, maybe 98 of a hundred plants popped up this spring, so far so good
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Frigging Japanese beetles are ganging up on my basil this year. Little bastidges.“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk
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Drip irrigation installed!Large, Medium, MiniMax, & 22, and 36" Blackstone
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Little harvest action past fees daysColumbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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Did some pruning in the greenhouse today and sorted out the supports for the tomatoes. Slightly less of a jungle now. Tomatoes well ahead of previous years thanks to the weather, chillies still a bit slow. Got a potting shed comming after the summer that I will insulate and have somewhere that can be heated early season to get things moving earlier in the year.
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plants are in about 6 weeks now, green and big but not many flowers, what nutrient makes the flowers pop, used miracle grow this year, plants are near 6 feet tall now, wiretyed a second cage to the tops of the cages around the plants. still not many flowers or tomato sets.
sunflower leaves destroyed by slugs, caught over 60 this weekend with a platter filled with beer. anything that kills them on the leaves. between squirrels lopping off the flower heads and slugs hitting the leaves they dont stand a chance
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
fishlessman said:plants are in about 6 weeks now, green and big but not many flowers, what nutrient makes the flowers pop, used miracle grow this year, plants are near 6 feet tall now, wiretyed a second cage to the tops of the cages around the plants. still not many flowers or tomato sets.
sunflower leaves destroyed by slugs, caught over 60 this weekend with a platter filled with beer. anything that kills them on the leaves. between squirrels lopping off the flower heads and slugs hitting the leaves they dont stand a chance
We are normally safe from squirrels, lots of open fields between us and the nearest woodland. We've got one at the moment though, but it's on notice of death as it's chewed through the plastic petrol tank on my mower. -
Eoin said:fishlessman said:plants are in about 6 weeks now, green and big but not many flowers, what nutrient makes the flowers pop, used miracle grow this year, plants are near 6 feet tall now, wiretyed a second cage to the tops of the cages around the plants. still not many flowers or tomato sets.
sunflower leaves destroyed by slugs, caught over 60 this weekend with a platter filled with beer. anything that kills them on the leaves. between squirrels lopping off the flower heads and slugs hitting the leaves they dont stand a chance
We are normally safe from squirrels, lots of open fields between us and the nearest woodland. We've got one at the moment though, but it's on notice of death as it's chewed through the plastic petrol tank on my mower.
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
fishlessman said:Eoin said:fishlessman said:plants are in about 6 weeks now, green and big but not many flowers, what nutrient makes the flowers pop, used miracle grow this year, plants are near 6 feet tall now, wiretyed a second cage to the tops of the cages around the plants. still not many flowers or tomato sets.
sunflower leaves destroyed by slugs, caught over 60 this weekend with a platter filled with beer. anything that kills them on the leaves. between squirrels lopping off the flower heads and slugs hitting the leaves they dont stand a chance
We are normally safe from squirrels, lots of open fields between us and the nearest woodland. We've got one at the moment though, but it's on notice of death as it's chewed through the plastic petrol tank on my mower. -
Eoin said:fishlessman said:Eoin said:fishlessman said:plants are in about 6 weeks now, green and big but not many flowers, what nutrient makes the flowers pop, used miracle grow this year, plants are near 6 feet tall now, wiretyed a second cage to the tops of the cages around the plants. still not many flowers or tomato sets.
sunflower leaves destroyed by slugs, caught over 60 this weekend with a platter filled with beer. anything that kills them on the leaves. between squirrels lopping off the flower heads and slugs hitting the leaves they dont stand a chance
We are normally safe from squirrels, lots of open fields between us and the nearest woodland. We've got one at the moment though, but it's on notice of death as it's chewed through the plastic petrol tank on my mower.fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
saluki2007 said:Anyone want to help a brother out. First time doing bell peppers. This doesn't look right.
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Glad I got an Egg cause I'm always hungry after gardening.Tyler, TX XL BGE 2016, KJ Classic 2019, MES, 18.5 WSM, Akorn Jr, 36"&17" Black Stone, Adj Rig, Woo, Grill Grates, SS Smokeware Cap, KAB, FB 300, Thermapen
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