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Post by rockhound on Jun 2, 2012 6:43:28 GMT -5
Thanks, they're taller now and I had to get rid of that mesh fence. It had 1-inch holes and supported the weight fine even tho it's plastic but I couldn't reach thu to tie up a branch from the back. I got a piece of nylon mesh with about 6-inch holes, much better.
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Post by colorado on Jun 2, 2012 10:59:04 GMT -5
I will need to stake up these tomatoes if they live. So far okay. I do not have any cages as I have always let the tomatoes sprawl.
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Post by rockhound on Jun 4, 2012 4:09:19 GMT -5
My bush cukes are starting to bloom. I hope to have a few for refrigerator pickles pretty soon.
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Post by rockhound on Jun 5, 2012 15:47:03 GMT -5
This is a pic taken this a.m. It won't be too long till I have enough berries to make something, if I'm lucky.
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Post by colorado on Jun 6, 2012 9:13:32 GMT -5
I see one greenbean coming up this morning.
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Post by Laura on Jun 6, 2012 20:09:16 GMT -5
Yummy!! We will be having a bumper crop of Raspberries this year!
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Post by rockhound on Jun 7, 2012 7:04:25 GMT -5
Colorado~ Congrats on the green bean. And you almost didn't plant anything! I hope you get many more. Are they bush or pole? Laura~ I know you all like the raspberries, wish I had some here. My old property had a few wild blackcaps but so scattered you could hardly pick a handful. I planted reds. They did good a couple years and dwindled down to nothing. I blamed it on viruses in the wild population. Didn't get my blackberries tho. They've been going strong for 20+ yrs and thru several moves.
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Post by colorado on Jun 7, 2012 9:45:49 GMT -5
Those 2 rows of greenbeans are coming up but not all up and the other 4 rows I see one up. I am leary of that grassy dirt he added to the beds that came from lawns the lawn service killed out. They piled in my back yard. Suppose to be bush beans.
I see a million elm trees seed coming up now. They are thick over the yard. The seed was terrible that blew in here. Billions of them .
Plants still alive okay but do not seem to grow any yet. Nights are in 40's. I see down to another garden that has deer fence and they have had theirs in walls of water till what yesterday I guess. They had them out early. Days get up in 80's and predicting low 90's. I have been watering every evening.
And DIL says when I planted the tomatoes are you not planting them too deep. ? I told her no. She know I planted in the last few years 1000's of tomatoes. I mudded them in. I grew my plants and set them. I know too close for the big vines they should do. Two in one bed would be plenty. Maybe her mom plants different. Yes, planted them deeper than was in the pots. 6 pack. Garden center did not have much kinds. The plants down the street do not seem to be very large either. Maybe they put down good roots that way. I have never used anything on tomatoes. One year it turned off frost warning and had only a few and covered those nights with paper. But when You set 800 or more . Yes, I learned to do it my self.
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Post by rockhound on Jun 8, 2012 6:28:33 GMT -5
I don't think you CAN plant a tomato plant too deep. However deep you set them, they will put out roots and be happy there. I always set mine deeper in the ground than they were in the pot. I've got lots of little green ones on my plants now, just wish some would get a little bigger and turn red. Early warm weather has spoilt me, I'm afraid.
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Post by colorado on Jun 8, 2012 18:47:48 GMT -5
I set about 20 onion plants last night. Drough here is D3 And they figure from D0 to D4. We are real dry. River is very low.
I do not think one can plant a tomato too deep. Inless you bury it totally. Tall ones I told you can lay side ways and cover. Just leave the top end out. Take off any bottom leaves of course.
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Post by rockhound on Jun 10, 2012 5:35:07 GMT -5
Mine are all looking good except for the aphids trying to sneak in. If I spray for them, it'll get the lacewings and lady bugs, so I'll wait them out a while longer. Flea beetles of course found my one ground cherry plant, moved that container away from the others and dosed it with a little pyrethrum, we'll see. It has quite a few fruit already set and steady string of blooms.
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Post by colorado on Jun 10, 2012 9:24:02 GMT -5
I check the garden in the morning and this morning one squash plant was pulled up and laying there. I got it back in before full sun hit it but I doubt it will live I dug in for it and ground was damp down okay. One pepper does not look too good. Invisable fence was still up. Only found it broke one time and only the lower one. I suppose we have squirrels here and moles. No moles out here pretty sure. Crows. 4 rows of beans have not came up and I guess better replant with kind that did come up. Two rows up. I have seen crows out here. I will replant between the rows and see. Got seed. Just one plant pulled out of that hill. Small plant. Stuff just does not sseem to be growing. 38 last night. around 90 yesterday and suppose to be like 79 today.
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Post by rockhound on Jun 12, 2012 4:30:27 GMT -5
I have not been out since it's not yet 4:30 a.m., but there were men here yesterday replacing windows, one directly above my container garden. I know it was important to get that done, just hope there was minimal damage to the plants/containers. I looked out once and they had moved the swing 8 ft or so, who knows what else. Daylight will tell. I have to get out early these days anyway to beat the mockingbirds to the blackberries. I could wait for the mass ripening but I'd miss the pint or so I get each day by being there first.
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Post by colorado on Jun 12, 2012 11:03:08 GMT -5
I replanted the greenbean rows that had not came up. One hot pepper looks to be dieing. ? It was single pot one at that. The two rows of green beans seem to be growing more than anything else. Rest pf plants seem to set there, but at least alive.
Are your blackberries the thornless kind? Canned ones are about $5 a can here. Any of those berry fruits are.
I check garden each morning.
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Post by rockhound on Jun 12, 2012 12:57:46 GMT -5
Yes, my berries are thornless. I don't remember the variety, it's been a long time and the fellow that passed them on to me is gone now. They're real productive tho, if I take care of them. Past couple years I been goofing off, let weeds get in them, etc. Here's a picture I took this morning of the first tomato(Early Girl) and the first cuke. The cuke is sliced in some vinegar and the tomato will be lucky to sit where it's at til tomorrow. Tomato sandwich sounds good to me.
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