Homesteading convention thing in Asheville said a compost pile is supposed to get hot enough to kill all the crap. I don't believe it I have a potato growing in my compost pile right now š
2023 Gardening Thread
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Real bummer! We just got back into raising chickens, and we have a ton of kale and leaf lettuce ready to harvest, and now that the wife has been diagnosed with blood cancer she can't have any of it, and can't be near the chickens.
Apparently the leaf veggies are more likely to have bacteria, same with the chickens. She's not supposed to have any fruits or veggies that can't be peeled or cooked to a bacteria killing temperature.
Her white blood cell count is so low that getting any kind of "ill" would be dangerous as her body has basically no way to fight it.
Apparently the leaf veggies are more likely to have bacteria, same with the chickens. She's not supposed to have any fruits or veggies that can't be peeled or cooked to a bacteria killing temperature.
Her white blood cell count is so low that getting any kind of "ill" would be dangerous as her body has basically no way to fight it.
Neem oil with a drop of soap first. Every 2 weeks or after a good rain.
Then with baking soda if it get worse.
First potatoesā¦ever.
Thatās from an extra I just burried in the corner. Lost a couple that were twice the largest there in the pic to rot.
Mashed potatoes for dinner !
Have 10 more plants in a raised bed.
Thatās from an extra I just burried in the corner. Lost a couple that were twice the largest there in the pic to rot.
Mashed potatoes for dinner !
Have 10 more plants in a raised bed.
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We arenāt doing a for real garden this year. Taking care of mom and having too many irons in the fire otherwise. I really really miss it, and Iām gonna miss working it and picking the stuff that we grew last year.
However, Diana expressed an interest in having some green beans. So the first of the week, I tilled a place and made and planted 4 rows with a walkway in the middle.
Not the straightest in the world, but I made my hills with a mantis tiller by walking it sideways.
However, Diana expressed an interest in having some green beans. So the first of the week, I tilled a place and made and planted 4 rows with a walkway in the middle.
Not the straightest in the world, but I made my hills with a mantis tiller by walking it sideways.
Todays haul. Missed the window on some asparagus. They went from 5ā to 2ā in a dayā¦have a ton already picked though (this is our 8th year with asparagus. Theyāre well established now. )
Thereās a couple lbs of blueberryās under all the greens and raspberries.
Thereās a couple lbs of blueberryās under all the greens and raspberries.
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I just stumbled onto this thread. We just moved to a new house and my girlfriend is on my tail about getting some raised beds done so she can start her garden. What would be good to start this time of year or is this not a good time to start a garden? I think she wants tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers not sure what else.
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Those may be a little tough if you have to make gardens first. However, spring has been so cool you may still have time. What you can do, is plan for a fall garden. Greens, cruciferous, peas, beans, other things with a shorter season and donāt require hot or long days.
Weāve got a house down the street that hasnāt even broke ground yet.
Every year we think they are not having a garden and then they till a big spot and have a huge garden.
I dont think itās too late for anything. Get your boxes done. And even if you donāt get them filled to the top and have 6-10 inches of dirt, water and plant.
Youāll just have fruit later in the season than most, not a bad thing.
If the peppers donāt produce, you can pull them in pots and over winter in the garage. Go for it! Youāll have a head start on next year..
We tried every single Organic remedy know to man for decades.
Living in western NC we have blights out of the old testament.
First time last season we had tomato's & Apples go through the season without succumbing to all the blights.
Grapes had clear leaves & no fruit rot.
These fungicides work against Viruses, Bacteria, & Fungus by working with the plant to repel & kill off the invades.
If I did not have pics, I would not have believed how well our plants did last season.
Last season we added a Biofungicide : Amazon product ASIN B00VXQG23O
This season we have purchased : https://www.domyown.com/cease-biological-fungicide-p-11636.html
Both of these Organic Biofungicides are taking the place of more dangerous chemical Fungicides.
If you understand how Thuricide & spinosad work you know how we use Nature to control nature.
This is a game changer for Organic growers.
sorry to hear about the wife
can't go wrong with tomatoes squash and cucumbers. They are very very forgiving.... of course we use Brooks Compost (out of Goldston but Mulch Master in Raleigh carries it). That stuff is off the charts good.
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Youāll be fineā¦Iād try to get it in the ground in the next week or two.
We planted GJ tomatoes, Marconi peppers, okra, straight 8 cucumbers, yellow crookneck and zuchinni. We also have a separate bed with thyme, basil, sage, dill and parsely.
We put out new Strawberries in February & picked off all the flowers & runners like you should.
2 weeks ago we quit picking the blossoms & now they are loaded with flowers & small berries.
These are Arkansas Beauty's & have red color all the way through. The last ones were Seascape for 4 years & were just so so.
2 weeks ago we quit picking the blossoms & now they are loaded with flowers & small berries.
These are Arkansas Beauty's & have red color all the way through. The last ones were Seascape for 4 years & were just so so.
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Got one small tomato with BER. Have to dump some powdered milk in the bed today. Hope I am not too late.
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my tater plants disappeared a while back.
my corn and squashchinni seeds never grew much beyond sprouts.
I planted a bunch of tomato and cucumber seeds in plastic cups full of store bough potting mix and they germinated and just sat...
not a great summer for my veggie collection.
my corn and squashchinni seeds never grew much beyond sprouts.
I planted a bunch of tomato and cucumber seeds in plastic cups full of store bough potting mix and they germinated and just sat...
not a great summer for my veggie collection.
This is disappointing. Every year I have amended the soil with calcium, usually using either a commercial mix or just powdered milk (it stinks when it gets wet and then sunlight). This year I did not, and now we have SEVERAL tomatoes like this. Pretty ugly blossom end rot in both beds. I went out and put some powdered milk down and soaked it in yesterday, and will do the same for the next few days (Ground up TUMS antacid works well, too). I am hoping to save most of them. It is disappointing, though
Gardening this year is TOUGH! Went from the pic above then to having a hailstorm last Friday with 3/4" hailstones( garden looks like someone went through a shot everything with buckshot) to a week of rain this week. Groundhog reappeared night before last (thought I had run him off LAST year) and sat his fat ass in the middle of the lettuce and destroyed that. Cool weather has kept beans and peppers from doing much. Corn blew over in the storms this week. Don't know about potatoes and beets yet -and with all the rain I'm sure tomatoes will probably rot despite my best efforts. C'est la vie -just depressing.
One 4x8 bed this a.m.
This one was hiding on the ground under the foilage. It obviously had delusions of grandeur and thought it was a watermelon
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same
and... for the past few years i've planted sunflowers all around our pool.
even those have had problems getting going. only a handful have come up
Latest dismal update -2 back to back hailstorms last night just slightly lass damaging than last week. Then about an hour or so of drenching rain. Hope you guys had better luck.
So far all our tomatoes have blossom end rot 
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Some of this years posts are examples of why the threads on food preservation are so important. You never know when you're going to have a bad year and other years you will have surprise bumper crops.
Peppers - Hatch Hot (from seed) , Habaneros, Serranos, Yellow Hot (but arent) are all doing great and we're harvesting peppers already. Noway, if you remember I planted some potatoes back in March sometime. By early may nothing had come up so I turned the garden, and put weed block fabric down. Cut holes for the plants and covered it all in shredded mulch.
Peppers are going great, and now the potatoes have found their way through and around the weed block and mulch. I'll just let 'em grow....
Peppers are going great, and now the potatoes have found their way through and around the weed block and mulch. I'll just let 'em grow....
We are having the same problem, not all but probably 25%.So far all our tomatoes have blossom end rot
Do you add calcium to your soil?
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My late beans are doing decent to be 2 weeks old.
Found Jap beetles on my Grapes. I was using Thuricide on them not Spinosad & found out I needed Spinosad for the Japs.
Last year we tried a new insecticide Spinosad. Amazon product ASIN B01N5P7UW8
Last year I knew that Spinosad worked on flea Beatles, this year I found out it also works on Japanese beetles.
Flea beetles eat my eggplant & japs eat damn near everything else. Only now they can just DIE!
Spinosad kills worms, flea beetles & Japanese beetles.
Using Spinosad I can cut my use of the more toxic organics like Rotenone & Pyrethrum.
Last year we tried a new insecticide Spinosad. Amazon product ASIN B01N5P7UW8
Last year I knew that Spinosad worked on flea Beatles, this year I found out it also works on Japanese beetles.
Flea beetles eat my eggplant & japs eat damn near everything else. Only now they can just DIE!
Spinosad kills worms, flea beetles & Japanese beetles.
Using Spinosad I can cut my use of the more toxic organics like Rotenone & Pyrethrum.
Today is the future Organic growers have long waited for, like Ivermectin so many new solutions to the age old problem of Bugs / fungus/ virus's / & blights.
Like the Biofungicides many new less toxic to humans pesticides have come forward. Because of the large number people demanding organic food it's now
profitable for commercial Organic growers to buy large amounts of product. The average gardener doe's not buy enough products in quarts to make it
profitable to research & develop new products.
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Like the Biofungicides many new less toxic to humans pesticides have come forward. Because of the large number people demanding organic food it's now
profitable for commercial Organic growers to buy large amounts of product. The average gardener doe's not buy enough products in quarts to make it
profitable to research & develop new products.
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Planters I made for mom are working out well so far. Makes it easy for her to get to and take care of.
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Yes, but I was very late in doing so. BER already showed up. Put two pretty heavy doses of powdered milk in and wet it in (it stinks bad if you don't), but BER had already showed up. In the past, I mixed it in, watered it in, when the blossoms first started showing up, and never had a problem with it.Do you add calcium to your soil?
Tomato Blossom End Rot Symptoms And Treament
Blossom end rot in tomatoes (BER) is a common problem for gardeners. Learn why tomatoes get blossom end rot and what you can do about it.
The cancer and surgery threw lots of stuff off.
I did get my first edible tomato from the patch this a.m., and we are getting a few in that don't have it now, so maybe I won't lose them all.
We have BER on MANY of our tomatoes, and some fungal kind of something on many of our peppers (bells). We are getting abundant fruit but losing a lot of it. In thinking back, I realize that while I was sick/hospitalized/recovering I DID NOT DO TWO THINGS I ALWAYS DO: 1) I did not LIME the soil. Tomatoes (and peppers?) like soil not too acid 2) I did not CALCIFY/APPLY PHOSPHOROUS. I did a late app of powdered milk (which seems to have helped some), but you really want a good healthy chemically balanced soil when the plants are growing. Not doing so is like feeding kids cheerios and pop tarts and skittles and coke their early years and then trying to compensate by making healthy food choices when adults. Much of the damage is just done and you can't undo it.
My thoughts, anyway. The great thing about gardening is that even when I am stupid, God does give some growth (and our squash and cukes have been off the charts productive), and you can say "ok, next time I will remember this. Growing food is one of the most forgiving endeavors I have ever engaged. You learn by mistakes and they are not permanent.
My thoughts, anyway. The great thing about gardening is that even when I am stupid, God does give some growth (and our squash and cukes have been off the charts productive), and you can say "ok, next time I will remember this. Growing food is one of the most forgiving endeavors I have ever engaged. You learn by mistakes and they are not permanent.