2017 Garden Thread

fishlessman

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

Gulfcoastguy

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.

Chubbs

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.

Send pic of rotting on vine. Are they full sized and rotting or very small and rotting? If the latter, they are not rotting. They didn't get pollinated. The female flowers have the fruit under them. The male just have the stem. Inside the male flower you can see a resemblance of male anatomy ha. Take Q-tip and rub on the inside of the male flower and then rub inside of the female flower. They will not rot after that as they are getting properly pollinated. You can also put more flower pots near them to attract pollinators. Good luck

Chubbs

Green beans and zuccini going crazy with daily harvests

G_S

Does any one have any thoughts, on using the ash from the Egg
as fertilizer?


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Chubbs

G_S said:

Does any one have any thoughts, on using the ash from the Egg
as fertilizer?


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You can use it for sure but it will raise the PH and lower the acidity of the soil. If you have acid loving plants this is counterproductive. 

Eoin

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.

pgprescott

My attempt at a garden. First poblano and first Tomato 

saluki2007

Anyone want to help a brother out. First time doing bell peppers. This doesn't look right. 

Eoin

saluki2007 said:

Anyone want to help a brother out. First time doing bell peppers. This doesn't look right. 

What is it you don't like the look of?

saluki2007

@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.

Eoin

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.

@saluki2007, I've seen this colouring on peppers before and not had a problem. The fruit looks good on yours.

TN_Sister_State

All the times i grew bell peppers they looked the exact same and turned out great. 

saluki2007

TN_Sister_State said:

All the times i grew bell peppers they looked the exact same and turned out great. 

Thanks for the insight.  First time growing them so wasn't sure.

Chubbs

@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. 

saluki2007

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. 

Yes, In the last week we have gotten several inches of rain.

fishlessman

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

saluki2007

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 year

Last time I checked, none of that is in the corn or bean fields...

fishlessman

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

HeavyG

Frigging Japanese beetles are ganging up on my basil this year. Little bastidges.

kl8ton

Drip irrigation installed!

Chubbs

Little harvest action past fees days

Eoin

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.

fishlessman

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

Eoin

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

If you fertilise too much too early then you get too much greenery. I'd stop them at 6 foot and also pick out any shoots between the stem and the main side branches.

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.

fishlessman

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

If you fertilise too much too early then you get too much greenery. I'd stop them at 6 foot and also pick out any shoots between the stem and the main side branches.

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.

im at pretty much the same fertilizer as i use yearly, might stop that, did add more compost this year. river is up to the bottom of the raised bed so maybe too much water, its usually down another foot or two right now which probally is resulting in the slug problem. have the same loom and fertilizer in the bucket tomatoes for the cherry sized ones and they are blooming and setting like crazy, hot peppers are doing well too as is the garlic. been picking out the suckers between the branch and center stems. did not plant any early tomatos, maybe its just a waiting game, my plants usually grow 8 or more feet tall up to 12 or so last year with one type so wasnt worried about the size so far

Eoin

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

If you fertilise too much too early then you get too much greenery. I'd stop them at 6 foot and also pick out any shoots between the stem and the main side branches.

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.

im at pretty much the same fertilizer as i use yearly, might stop that, did add more compost this year. river is up to the bottom of the raised bed so maybe too much water, its usually down another foot or two right now which probally is resulting in the slug problem. have the same loom and fertilizer in the bucket tomatoes for the cherry sized ones and they are blooming and setting like crazy, hot peppers are doing well too as is the garlic. been picking out the suckers between the branch and center stems. did not plant any early tomatos, maybe its just a waiting game, my plants usually grow 8 or more feet tall up to 12 or so last year with one type so wasnt worried about the size so far

Get some pet ducks, they love slugs.

fishlessman

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

If you fertilise too much too early then you get too much greenery. I'd stop them at 6 foot and also pick out any shoots between the stem and the main side branches.

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.

im at pretty much the same fertilizer as i use yearly, might stop that, did add more compost this year. river is up to the bottom of the raised bed so maybe too much water, its usually down another foot or two right now which probally is resulting in the slug problem. have the same loom and fertilizer in the bucket tomatoes for the cherry sized ones and they are blooming and setting like crazy, hot peppers are doing well too as is the garlic. been picking out the suckers between the branch and center stems. did not plant any early tomatos, maybe its just a waiting game, my plants usually grow 8 or more feet tall up to 12 or so last year with one type so wasnt worried about the size so far

Get some pet ducks, they love slugs.

wild ducks geese and turkey in the yard during the week, bird dog on offense during the weekends.  should have more ducks in a few weeks when the blueberries start to ripen, ducks will eat blueberries with the britt on point just yards away

Gulfcoastguy

saluki2007 said:

Anyone want to help a brother out. First time doing bell peppers. This doesn't look right. 

SSQUAL612

Glad I got an Egg cause I'm always hungry after gardening.