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Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:30 pm
by plix (imported)
I like a good garden and wish that it were possible to have one here in the scorchingly dry deserts of Arizona. I tried last year to grow some vegetables, but I soon learned that it seems pretty hopeless to try to grow anything in the ground around here. Somehow, I have managed to keep a potted rose tree alive for a little over a year now.
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:22 pm
by Paolo
Some type of bug has attacked my sunflowers, causing them to suddenly wilt and die. I think it's a beetle, from the one I dissected. I eats its way up the stem and FLOP!
You've heard of Charlie Brown Christmas Trees? I have Charlie Brown tomato plants. They wouldn't grow, but a set a fruit. It's sad.
The garden is just pretty much done, thanks to all this rain.
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:45 pm
by Valery_V (imported)
Paolo wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:22 pm
Some type of bug has attacked my sunflowers, causing them to suddenly wilt and die. I think it's a beetle, from the one I dissected. I eats its way up the stem and FLOP!
You've heard of Charlie Brown Christmas Trees? I have Charlie Brown tomato plants. They wouldn't grow, but a set a fruit. It's sad.
The garden is just pretty much done, thanks to all this rain.
I love sunflowers
HOW TO IDENTIFY AND CONTROL COMMON SUNFLOWER PESTS
https://gardenerspath.com/how-to/diseas ... wer-pests/
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:31 pm
by Paolo
Here we are, August 2nd, and I am pulling dead tomato plants. Already.
I filled the kitchen sink with tomatoes of all ripeness grades and began trimming and chopping.
Sunscald, blossom end rot, fungus killing the plants, insect damage, you name it. Using a 14.5 oz. can from the canned tomatoes, I measured out 7 cans of chopped ones after going all Gordon Ramsay on them with a mini cleaver!
Some were OK to let ripen, if they don't rot in the window.
Some were ripe enough to eat.
The juice collected and strained during the chopping was about 12 oz., and boy, was it tangy!
I have never had the garden finish off and die so early. But it's just been such crazy, wet weather, the fungus ran amok. July gave us rain almost every day here in IN, and a lot of those rains were torrential that beat young plants to death.
Even the starter plants I bought had a high fail rate. They didn't grow and turned black overnight. Then there was the yellow leaf/rust spot fungus, and no way to spray it. Rain washed it off every day.
I still harbor some hope for the potted sweet potatoes, and the potted peppers are doing OK.
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:28 pm
by Valery_V (imported)
Paolo wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:31 pm
Here we are, August 2nd, and I am pulling dead tomato plants. Already.
I filled the kitchen sink with tomatoes of all ripeness grades and began trimming and chopping.
Sunscald, blossom end rot, fungus killing the plants, insect damage, you name it. Using a 14.5 oz. can from the canned tomatoes, I measured out 7 cans of chopped ones after going all Gordon Ramsay on them with a mini cleaver!
Some were OK to let ripen, if they don't rot in the window.
Some were ripe enough to eat.
The juice collected and strained during the chopping was about 12 oz., and boy, was it tangy!
I have never had the garden finish off and die so early. But it's just been such crazy, wet weather, the fungus ran amok. July gave us rain almost every day here in IN, and a lot of those rains were torrential that beat young plants to death.
Even the starter plants I bought had a high fail rate. They didn't grow and turned black overnight. Then there was the yellow leaf/rust spot fungus, and no way to spray it. Rain washed it off every day.
I still harbor some hope for the potted sweet potatoes, and the potted peppers are doing OK.
Salted a few cans of cucumbers!
We are already running out of local tomatoes. Those who have a lot of them - canned, and also make tomato paste. For spaghetti - an absolutely essential ingredient!
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:46 am
by seanthomas (imported)
My wife is an avid gardener and grows rare flowers. This year she planted tomatoes but the deer ate them. They also ate her hostas as well as some other plants. They are beautiful to see in the mornings and have no fear of us, but the growing population is becoming a pain in the ass. She wants me to build her a greenhouse. I want deer burgers.
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:58 am
by Valery_V (imported)
seanthomas (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:46 am
My wife is an avid gardener and grows rare flowers. This year she planted tomatoes but the deer ate them. They also ate her hostas as well as some other plants. They are beautiful to see in the mornings and have no fear of us, but the growing population is becoming a pain in the ass. She wants me to build her a greenhouse. I want deer burgers.
I see! You feed the deer, and they will soon become pets for you to eat
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Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:05 am
by JesusA (imported)
seanthomas (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:46 am
She wants me to build her a greenhouse. I want deer burgers.
Venison is delicious. Deer will nibble anything green and eat most of it. We even have them nibble young, tender (and TOXIC) Oleander leaves in the spring. There are plenty of attractive deer-resistant plants for the garden. Nothing is deer-PROOF. Some plants are more attractive to them than others. Roses, for instance, are deer candy.
Re: The Gardening Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:21 am
by seanthomas (imported)
Given the sky rocketing prices of meat lately Im not sure I want to run the deer off just yet. Venison is one of the healthiest meat and I always liked it. It also makes damn good jerky. Now the trick is not to name our intruders like pets so we wont feel as bad in case we need to eat them.