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Post by capncrunch on Jun 24, 2012 19:26:24 GMT -6
We did not plant one this year, but how are the gardens doing for the one's that planted one this year?
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Post by dive61364 on Jun 24, 2012 19:49:09 GMT -6
the tomatoes are doing great
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Post by WT Huck? on Jun 25, 2012 7:16:54 GMT -6
NEED RAIN!!!!! LOL Mine is fine, cukes and squash are blooming,nothing set, tomatoes and peppers have all set fruit. All my cole crops are being chewed up, all pretty typical.
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Post by dumdave on Jun 25, 2012 8:11:56 GMT -6
My neighbor has a garden & it is looking good.
He also is growing a tomatoe plant & has one tomato.....up side down in a plastic container that hangs from a pole.
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Post by WT Huck? on Jun 25, 2012 8:50:01 GMT -6
My neighbor has a garden & it is looking good. He also is growing a tomatoe plant & has one tomato.....up side down in a plastic container that hangs from a pole. I got one of those topsy turvy tomato planters this year. I put a tomato in it and hung it upside down with the enclosed hook and when I watered it it became much heavier and pulled out the hook and broke my tomato. I replaced the tomato with a zucchini plant from walmart and hung it from the top of my chain link dog kennel with a big S hook and we'll se how it goes. the leaves have all twisted round for normal orientation and it is blossoming.
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Post by cyndi on Jun 25, 2012 10:12:23 GMT -6
Mine is doing well since I insisted we water it! The other half said 'let nature take it's course', which it was, right down the toilet! Doing better now, but some things could be better
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Post by dive61364 on Jun 26, 2012 13:11:59 GMT -6
i use a topsy turvy planters rosebudz. i have had great luck with them so far.
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Post by cyndi on Jun 26, 2012 18:14:20 GMT -6
OK so I am losing 4 pepper plants, and the rest are fine, but the ones I'm losing have been one, then another, then another, etc. I'm also losing my peas any my squash. Any ideas what's' going on? I dont spray for bugs or anything, but I'm curious as to what's happening.
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Post by dilligaf on Jun 26, 2012 18:40:55 GMT -6
OK so I am losing 4 pepper plants, and the rest are fine, but the ones I'm losing have been one, then another, then another, etc. I'm also losing my peas any my squash. Any ideas what's' going on? I dont spray for bugs or anything, but I'm curious as to what's happening. I've had a few tomato plants go bad for some reason... also had rabbits eating the tops off my pepper plants..sprayed coyote urine on a stake next to them and that did the trick
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Post by nextofkin on Jun 26, 2012 20:27:44 GMT -6
some of the old timers used lime and sprinkled it on the plants.
they said the rabbits didn't like it and it was good for the ground/soil also.
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Post by dive61364 on Jun 26, 2012 20:32:30 GMT -6
the oldtimers use to eat the rabbits too nok
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Post by dilligaf on Jun 26, 2012 22:23:38 GMT -6
some of the old timers used lime and sprinkled it on the plants. they said the rabbits didn't like it and it was good for the ground/soil also. Tilled some lime into the soil this spring..I heard blood meal works too at keeping critters away The coyote urine also took care of the deer eating the sunflower tops.. Here at the house I had 3 young coons up in my apricot tree last Friday night eating..sprayed the coyote urine around the base of the tree and haven't seen them since..I let my dog out later and he smelled it and wasn't quite sure he wanted to be outside or not
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Post by WT Huck? on Jun 27, 2012 1:46:42 GMT -6
I got a good organic bug spray- use tobacco. If you smoke, save all your butts and boil them in water, if you don't smoke, go buy a pouch of rollemup tobacco (top) and boil it with water into tea,(strain it ,duh) then add a drop of dish soap then put it in a spray bottle. Works great. You can even add a little cayenne/red pepper powder to it to make sure them buggies go eat elsewhere.
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Post by WT Huck? on Jun 27, 2012 1:51:37 GMT -6
some of the old timers used lime and sprinkled it on the plants. they said the rabbits didn't like it and it was good for the ground/soil also. Tilled some lime into the soil this spring..I heard blood meal works too at keeping critters away The coyote urine also took care of the deer eating the sunflower tops.. Here at the house I had 3 young coons up in my apricot tree last Friday night eating..sprayed the coyote urine around the base of the tree and haven't seen them since..I let my dog out later and he smelled it and wasn't quite sure he wanted to be outside or not Lime will change the PH of the soil to alkaline , please check your soils PH before doing that. Also, I had always been told to use lime with dogs. If you put lime in a certain area, dogs will want to potty there. So I cannot say it will keep critters away.....
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Post by WT Huck? on Jun 27, 2012 1:53:31 GMT -6
the oldtimers use to eat the rabbits too nok MMMMM rabbit! Heckya, good eatin there. But I prefer domesticated to wild. Oh and factoid: its a LAW butchered rabbits must be sold with all four feet. It comes from the depression days when folks would skin a cat, cut off the front legs and sell them as rabbit. HAHAHA
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