2024 Gardening Thread

beamernc said:
Have you tried growing them vertically? I have not done it, don't grow squash, but have seen some videos and it makes sense. Get the plant up off the ground and keep the lower limbs pruned off to prevent hiding places for the bugs.

Sevin dust isn't what it used to be, it no longer contains carbaryl and now contains zeta-cypermethrin.
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I put so much Sevin on those squash you couldn’t see that the plant was green. All it did to the bugs was give them a snow day. Think I saw a few of em making snowmen.
 
beamernc said:
Have you tried growing them vertically? I have not done it, don't grow squash, but have seen some videos and it makes sense. Get the plant up off the ground and keep the lower limbs pruned off to prevent hiding places for the bugs.

Sevin dust isn't what it used to be, it no longer contains carbaryl and now contains zeta-cypermethrin.
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No I haven’t tried it. I’d like to. Not sure I have the gumption to do so.
 
I wouldn’t ever use dust when carbaryl spray is much easier and cheap. Bifen is a 3 day harvest interval but works.
 
Jimbob78 said:
I wouldn’t ever use dust when carbaryl spray is much easier and cheap. Bifen is a 3 day harvest interval but works.
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Are either of those bee friendly? Or should they be sprayed when the blooms are closed?
 
Got my load of leaf mulch spread on 2 different garden spots and tilled in thanks to a friend letting me borrow his tractor.

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Soaking rain? LOL

Here it's like flooding rains

My garden is puddles, but the cukes like the water

Tomatoes are tallish and scrawny, they need heat.

I think my Okra drowned, again. Second planting

I hope this isn't one of "those" summers
 
Gardner said:
Soaking rain? LOL

Here it's like flooding rains

My garden is puddles, but the cukes like the water

Tomatoes are tallish and scrawny, they need heat.

I think my Okra drowned, again. Second planting

I hope this isn't one of "those" summers
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I bedded my stuff pretty high so hopefully we are good still. I’ll see in the morning.
 
We got 3" of rain today. Wife made the comment, "I might not have to water everything tomorrow". Looks like more rain in the forecast tomorrow.
 
The soils is warm & the peppers were ready to be set free 46 in ground so far. What a tasty season this is shaping up to be. 😉

Grow list:

1. Antep Aci Dolma
2. Aji Panca
3. Aji Strawberry drop
4. Sugar Rush Stripy
5. Aji Pineapple
6. Aji Chombo Amarillo
7. Aji Fantasy
8. Pasilla Oaxaca
9. Pasillo Apaseo
10. Pasilla Mixe
11. Chilhuacle Negro
12. Aji Chombo Rojo
13. Aji Rainforest
14. Brazilian Starfish
15. Jamaican Scotch Bonnet
16. Aji Charapita
17. Jigsaw ( ornamental )
18. Poblano Rojo
19. Early Jalapeño
20. Serrano
21. Lesya


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My earliest variety of blueberry, O'Neal, is staring to ripen, and the birds have already found them. If we get a lot more rain this weekend, these will probably split the skin. Will try to get most of them picked this evening.

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We went out and picked 2 gallons before dinner and before it started to rain.
 
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If it doesn’t stop raining, everything in our little greenhouse is gonna keel over from being root bound. Got the garden ready last weekend, been raining ever since. I need 3-4 days of dry weather so I can put the ground cover on it and get it planted
 
Is there a specific point you are supposed to harvest rutabaga? Checked on Saturday we have one the size of a football.
 
Squanchy said:
Is there a specific point you are supposed to harvest rutabaga? Checked on Saturday we have one the size of a football.
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They would have been eat way before that point here. But I would cut one and try it raw to see if it’s too fibrous to waste your time cooking. If it’s bolted it may not be as sweet.
 
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