re: The 2021 Garden Thread

Went work the corn and pea patch today.


Was given a cultivator toy to play with.

I need your garden set up and pillage’s bees and I’ll be living the dream

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If anyone needs an all natural chew toy for your dog, give him the root stalk of a cabbage

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What’s wrong with my tomato plants? It’s 82 here today and they are wilting like it’s 100 outside. They also have been dropping flowers for a few weeks now

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This is the main reason I started a garden so many years ago. I was gifted some tomato plants and tried growing them in 5 gallon buckets. Once they outgrow the bucket they are impossible to keep happy. Tomatoes are heavy feeders with big root systems. If you're going to grow them in containers I'd recommend going a lot bigger than a 5 gallon bucket. Unless you are growing smaller, determinate varieties. Those would be the exception.

Had a few start to have some yellow leaves and withering limbs. Sprayed down with been oil and fungicide. It’s going to rain here all next week. Think I may too dress some fertilizer.

The squash and little tomatoes are going nuts and we’re having fresh green beans with chicken fried venison and squash tonight!

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Will Seven nuke em

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Yes. Sevin is the only way I’m able to grow squash and zucchini. I use a turkey baster looking thing and just dust the actual vine/stalk of the plants. It’s worked well for me.

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Yes, and added about 3” of mulch in bottom before I put dirt in.

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Was this to improve drainage similar to putting rocks on the bottom?

This actually worsens drainage by raising the water table. When water penetrates through the soil and meets the mulch that has a much different soil structure, im assuming big chunks, it will start to pool around that area and could cause root rot.

And since you have mulch on bottom and mulch on top, in a small 5 gallon container with little soil and not a lot room for roots to spread, I’m assuming you have some root damage.

Does anyone else notice that when you buy bonnie pepper plants the leaves and plant look different compared to ones grown from seed?

These are the same type jalapeño plants, 1 i grew from seed, the other is bonnie plant.

The pics don’t do it real justice, but bonnie plants always seem to have leaves that are smaller, and slightly different, more flat, shade of green, and seem to be more uniform shape.

Curious if it’s just me or if anyone else notice this also.

Bonnie:


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Bonnie:


From seed:

I think someone in your vicinity has a bunch of clover in their yard. Your bees are cheating on you.