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Posted on 5/25/23 at 11:10 am to
Posted by meeple
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 11:10 am to
Squash vine borer?
Posted by Mr Sausage
Cat Spring, Texas
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 12:51 pm to
Sounds more like too much water.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 7:15 pm to
figured out who’s been eating all my blueberries

Posted by ChenierauTigre
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 8:01 pm to
Hahahahaha. Is that a Dobe without its ears cut? I am cracking up.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 8:54 pm to
she’s a street mutt
probably some Doberman among other things I’m sure. My question is how does she know which ones are blue

I walked over there and she was picking off only the blue ones LOL
Posted by TunaTigers
Nola
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 10:23 pm to
Nice. I caught my springer taking blackberries off my plant this year. I figure if she can reach them she can have them.

I took two weeks off from spraying neem and h202 and I found 6 tomato hornworms on my plants yesterday. Those bastards can eat some leaves before you notice. Chopped them up with some scissors.

By June 1st I figure my tomatoes are done setting fruit. I bought some Purple Hull Peas and Alabama Red Orka to try through the summer once I pull the Tomatoes. If anyone has any tips on growing those.

Or recipes for the peas.
This post was edited on 5/25/23 at 10:33 pm
Posted by ChenierauTigre
Dreamland
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 5:26 am to
She probably smells the gases that ripe fruit emit. That is absolutely hilarious.
Posted by TheBoo
South to Louisiana
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 8:20 am to
Ok it's been a few days and it the leaves are green again and the color is coming back in the stalk. Maybe I burned it

I never had a problem with vine borers and I've spoken with many long time farms and gardeners in my area and neither have they, so I'd say "We don't have that problem round here". Knock on wood....



Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 10:04 am to
Is it too late to plant onions?

Really want a tomato, cucumber, and onion salad with oil and vinegar but I didn't plant any onion.

The way things look, I might not get any tomato's or cucumbers either though My stuff looks terrible.
Posted by cgrand
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 12:15 pm to
no borers yet on my compost volunteer butternuts



Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 2:19 pm to
need some rain here in Hammond USA
Posted by Loup
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 3:39 pm to
I liked the few shishito/corbaci/Jimmy nardello peppers I've picked so much that I just planted the seeds for 3 more.
Posted by Devious
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 6:02 pm to
Dug up potatoes today. Maybe I'll turn em into vodka...

Posted by Tbone2
Member since Jun 2015
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 6:10 pm to
Do not plant onions now. Early Oct you can start the seed. Transplant in Dec/Jan. Pick in May/June.
Posted by rooster108bm
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:09 am to
quote:

Purple Hull Peas and Alabama Red Orka


For the peas choose top pick or ms pink eye, use an innoculant, and don't crowd them.

Okra grows like a weed but keep the ants off them.
Posted by Mr Sausage
Cat Spring, Texas
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:35 am to
Digging ours up next weekend. I did spot check some to give to my parents. Found this purple hand grenade potato. I need to get the onions all cured so these potatoes can go on the rack to dry.



Lost one side of a Hubbard squash to SVB. It’s still kicking though! We’re already at giving away squash stage. Tomatoes are struggling this year.
Posted by rooster108bm
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:01 am to
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:55 am to
that’s fantastic dude
frickin A
Posted by Devious
Elitist
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 10:02 am to
I let ours go right at 90 days. Yield was less than expected. Not sure what happened outside of a leaf blight from that stretch of heavy rain.

I'll get the rows back in shape for okra seed.
Posted by PillageUrVillage
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Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 11:24 am to
quote:

Lost one side of a Hubbard squash to SVB. It’s still kicking though! We’re already at giving away squash stage. Tomatoes are struggling this year.


My tomato plants are not aesthetically pleasing this year, but they’re still producing. Although one of my Paul Robeson plants is done. There’s no more fruit on it and it isn’t making any more flowers. So I’m gonna pull it.

My blue hubbard plant finally got the attention of the vine borers. I’ve been noticing eggs on them, and less on my squash and zucchini. Also, the darn cucumber beetles are bad this year for me! On the plus side, the systemic that I feed the blue hubbard plant is definitely working. I’ve been seeing some chewed up leaves with dead cucumber beetles on them. I’m anxious to see if it kills the vine borers as well.
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