re: Garden Updates

Everything is looking good.



A small cauliflower. Harvested a bigger one last week.



Hop Bines for homebrew



Tomatoes.... This is early girl



This is the 3rd or 4th batch of asparagus. When I get 10 or so more stalks I'll eat this batch.

Dam that’s a big garden

I don't have a "garden" per se, but this is my first year growing plants in pots. I'll post updates here. This thread has been super helpful. I've got squash, zucchini, two different types of cucumbers, two better boys, bell peppers, and jalapenos. All are in their own 7.5gal pots except the cucumbers. I have three cucumber plants to one 15gal pot. Will post photos in time because it'll be good for me to visually track progress.

eta: my plants are all transplanted. Is there any pest control that I should be doing right now? The tomatoes are too small for tomato cages, and I plan to eventually add some kind of trellis to the cucumbers.

seven dust.

Here squash bugs and tomato horn worms are terrible.

gotta keep every thing covered in seven dust.

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Here squash bugs and tomato horn worms are terrible.

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Horn worms are the debil. Seems like every year they knock out a few of my pepper plants. Seven dust sprayer does a good job of keeping them away.

I haven't had hornworm issues. Mines been with these little black looking caterpillars. I'm talking like half an inch long and skinny. Amy clue what it is?

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A couple years ago I had extremely bad hornworm problems. Tried all of the harshest pesticides I could get my hands on. Didn’t seem to phase them much. I started spraying with Thuricide. It was a hornworm genocide. I haven’t seen a single hornworm in years.

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Good to know. I have some Sevin dust already, but will likely order some of that Thuricide as well.

The sevin dust will probably be enough. I wouldn’t get thuricide unless the sevin isn’t doing the trick. No need to spend the money if you do t have to. Just keep an eye out for them.

By the way, if you do end up getting some. The Southern Ag brand is what I’ve used. You can get it at Lowe’s or Home Depot.

ETA: I think the problem for me was that I didn’t notice how bad of an infestation I had until it was too late. I had nice, lush, green plants one night. Then woke up the next day to a few of my plants as skeletons. Them bastards work fast. If you ever see them on your plants:
1. Pick as many hornworms off as you can and put them in a can.
2. Spray your plants
3. Take your can of worms and go fishing. The bream love them things.

I’ll start covering mine in seven dust in the next 2 weeks. Horn worms are a major problem in central Ms.