re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Pick your tomatoes before they become targets. There's no taste difference and they will ripen inside your house.

Conjoined tomatoes.

While in the attic getting ornaments, noticed this fella, maybe he can help with the birds

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2 more eggplant plant blooms died 

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Mine are barely making anything. I'm growing the Japanese Eggplant this year. Not sure if that has something to do with it. I just dug up my Spaghetti and Kabocha Squash plants. They were fine 2 days ago. Squash Borers got them.

finally some rain tonight at my place it was dry as a bone. The frogs are singing in glee

So it seems my “scarecrow” didn’t do much, but I will say, I didn’t have this yesterday evening. I woke up to it, so it either JUST happened, or I have a night crawler, can anyone identify what’s doing this?

Look at all of the food on the ground it wasted

I’m putting a net over my tomatoes this weekend. I’m tired of pulling them so early.

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Sprayed another round of neem oil 2 days ago and he’s on it the next day.

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Neem doesn't work for every insect. Use BT for worms/caterpillars. Don't give up. Gardening has a learning curve for sure. Once you know how to handle certain problems, it'll become easier to deal with them. A few years back, some goober on the OT said growing veggies was as simple as planting a seed and letting it grow. If only.

Can anyone give me some help here from my soil analysis?

I have 3 seperate raised beds, all pretty much had the same analysis.
Very high PH, Phosphorous, Calcium and Magnesium and high Sulfur, Copper, Zinc.
Where i grew potatoes it was very high in Potassium. The other two areas were medium for Potassium and had no recommendation.

Recommendation is to add Ammonium Sulfate to all three beds, and the Muriate of Potash for the two beds with the medium Potassium results.


This is year 2 of my garden. I add some 13-13-13 before planting, and also put black kow about 2" thick on the top. I'll side dress with Calcium Nitrate twice during each planting.
What's causing the high PH and Phosphorus, Magnesium and Calcium? Obviously the Calcium Nitrate is attributing, but is there something else i'm doing or not doing that's making my soil have a higher PH?

My garden has done really well over the last fall and this spring and this is the first time i've done a soil test.