re: Garden Updates

Powdered milk, make sure you bury it Bc it will stink if it’s on top in a big pile.

I like that setup.

I noticed something eating my pepper plant leaves. Is there an easy solution to stopping that, or should I not worry?

I think it's slugs or something at night. Just small holes on a lot of leaves.

I bought a $4 bag of gypsum from Home Depot. Mix two handfuls 2 gallons of water. Take a solo cup and give each plant 3-4 cups each. I also added epsom salt to make them happier as well. The gypsum doesn't effect the soil ph much

I haven't, but I'm curious as to the results.

Looks like my tomato plants may ride out this weekend on the porch .

I had about 6 creole tomatoes split on me after the rain last weekend. Pulled them and need to stew them up and can them before they go south. FYI, I found a 3' cotton mouth hanging out behind one of my tomato plants.

My cucumbers still have not grown so I need to figure it out.

Also have something affecting some of my tomato’s so need to go get some copper fungicide.

My garden overall is doing well. About to harvest my potatoes. My broccoli is flowering and a few heads are almost ready to harvest. My different pepper plants are doing well except the tomatillos plants. They are super healthy, lots of flowers, but they aren't producing any peppers. I've almost harvested all of my lettuce. I had so much that I was giving it away to neighbors. The kale grew well that I'm probably going to dedicate one the boxes to kale for the fall. My tomato plants are decent except I'm still battling caterpillars. It started off with a bunch of small ones. Sprayed thuricide, but it didn't seem to help much and then two days ago I found two big hornworm caterpillars destroying my plants. May they rest in peace. Also one of my plants had blossom rot so I gave them all a dose of calcium and epsom salt.







Damn hornworm

My garden was late taking off. Pumpkin plants, watermelon, and cantaloupe plants are growing by leaps and bounds. My tomato plants, creole, better boys, big boys, and Cherokee purple are really starting to fruit out. Squash and zucchini should be ready to start picking in a week or so, strawberries are getting hammered by the birds, lastly my pole beans are starting to flower.

Edited to add my corn burned up. Kroger it is for corn

Hornworms got to me this week while I was gone to work. Powdering them 2morro.

Pulled a zucchini today.

Squash and cucs have taken over one of my boxes. Tomatoes are tall w blooms, but not maters. Wondering if my Cherokees are dropping their blooms. Watching closer this week

Shake the plants lightly are get a small brush and transfer pollen to different buds. Possible they just aren't pollinating. The pepper palnts with the branches on the ground could be caterpillars. I did have a hornworm one time tear up my bell pepper plant and didn't even touch the tomatoe plants.