re: 2019 Garden Thread

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I’m sore as hell today. I’m not as young and in shape as I used to be.

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I feel the same way. I spent all Saturday tilling up 4 more rows, planting corn, planting my last two blueberry plants and installing a fence around my garden plot. About time I was done, I could barely walk.

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We've been moved. Think I'm going to cry.

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Frick this blue board bullshite. I want my green-trimmed OB back.

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BTW, it says to space them 10" apart. I could have gotten a few more! Maybe If I'm out near WM soon I might pick 2 or 3 more.

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You could have bought a pack of seeds for much cheaper and directly sown them into the soil. Let a couple pods get real big near the end of the growing season and pull them and let them dry thoroughly. Once dry, split them open and save the seeds. Each pod will yield at least 70+ seeds, and many times well over 100 per pod.

I've found transplanted okra tends to stunt for a while as opposed to directly sown seeds in the soil.

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Anyone having issues with their pepper leaves turning yellow?

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All of them, or just a few leaves? I few of my peppers have dropped some yellow leaves, but the plants are otherwise healthy. I've never paid much mind to it cause I always seem to have that happen.

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This is crap, move it back

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I will no longer use Chicken's poo as fertilizer out of protest.

lost 2 mater plants.

1 pepper plant to frost Monday morning.....

I planted too early...I'll buy some more of them shits tho.

gg.

This aggression will not stand, man.

I used it on cucumbers in the fall and they did great. I’m using it on peppers, squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes this spring. Once every week for containers and once every two weeks for the raised bed plants.

It’s hard to give a solid review so far this year, just because nothing has really taken off with the random cold nights. I will say that all of my plants look super healthy. Tomatoes are loaded with flowers. I’ve been using it on a celebrity plant that I put in a bag way early this year and it has a ton of flowers on it and probably 10 small tomatoes.

I used the vegetable food both last fall and this spring for my seed starts. 1/2 strength every 10 days or so. I had some issues with fungus gnats on some tomatoes but they did great otherwise. Pepper starts were really solid. Dark green and woody stalks at only 8 weeks old. Not saying the veg food is 100% responsible for that, but it definitely didn’t hurt.

Negative. Raised bed peppers and tomatoes have about 2tbsp tomato tone, and 1tbsp bone meal and Epsom salt in the holes. Containers have the same thing just 1.5-2x the amount. My raised bed soil is pretty good and balanced though. Lots of compost. I also got some farm egg powder from a friend that I added prior to planting.

Cucumbers and squash have garden tone, Epsom salt, and calcium nitrate in the transplant holes.

I should’ve clarified. My post was in agreement with you OB for life.

Same. Everything is doing well considering it was a slow start. I’m going to thin out the beans and cucumbers today and sow the okra seeds.