Been adding a little fox farms big blooms liquid fertilizer every 4th watering for the last 2 weeks. It’s like steroids for the garden! Plants are exploding and putting on tons of blooms. It’s has worm castings and bat poop.
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Looks like vine borer beetle damage, plants go from healthy productive plants to dried up mess in a couple of days. We finally gave up growing squash due to them.Comment
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Originally posted by rjs68 View Post
I don’t see any insects on the plant. Are they actually inside of the stems perhaps?
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Originally posted by rtp View Post
Yes. Look in the stems in the dying sections, near the base of the plants. You’ll see ‘worms’ in there if its from vine borersComment
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Originally posted by basschump View Post
Thanks I’ll give it a look tomorrow. Is it salvageable/treatable? Or just go ahead and yank it out if I see them?
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You can inject BT in the vines and kill vine borers. Also spray the vines and leaves with neem oil. Not sure on how long to wait to harvest after. You can usually tell if you have borers. There will be holes in the vines.Originally posted by rtp View PostComment
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Richard, look for a sappy sawdust looking residue on the affected stem. Split open the stem just above where the sawdust is. You can actually find the little maggot looking caterpillar and pull him out and kill him. Sometimes if you bury the stem after removal of the pests, it will reroot and start to recover. Has worked for me about 50% of the time. As early in the season, it might work for you.Comment
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Thanks guys. I dissected several of the bad stems and found zero worms or maggots. I may just pull it up and replant.
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2023 Gardening Thread
First harvest of lettuce. That’ll make for a good salad to go along with buttered potatoes and the home grow ribeyes we’re having for supper. Everything from the garden or the pasture.
Oh yeah, that’ll work.
Speaking of lettuce… what variety are y’all growing? This is Crisp Mint, an heirloom variety. It grows well for me and if picked early enough it’s good but I’d like to try something else, so waddya got?
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Arugala(Rocket) and Salad Bowl. Usually have some Mesclun and spinach as well. Buttercrunch is pretty good tooOriginally posted by Geezy Rider View PostFirst harvest of lettuce. That’ll make for a good salad to go along with buttered potatoes and the home grow ribeyes we’re having for supper. Everything from the garden or the pasture.
Oh yeah, that’ll work.
Speaking of lettuce… what variety are y’all growing? This is Crisp Mint, an heirloom variety. It grows well for me and if picked early enough it’s good but I’d like to try something else, so waddya got?
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Looks great Geoff!! My wife planted 2 different varieties. The one I like best is a red. It’s butter head and it has a bold flavor. Real good for salads. The other one was butter crunch. It made big leaves that are great for burgers and such. We’re gonna start some more for Fall. Fresh lettuce is SO much better than store-bought stuff!! Had some great small leaf spinach too. It was Angel something or other. We’re hoping to have some good stuff in a Fall garden.Comment
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Miscellaneous stuff growing well other stuff not so well.
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Dang boy, you better get that wheel hoe out an' get after dem weeds!!
You get any squash on those plants yet? They look really good. That sandy soil will grow taters big as softballs, I bet!! next year after doing some soil amendments and tarping to kill your weed bank, you'll be amazed!! Get your hoe (regular not wheel) and pull some dirt up on those tater plants, cover 'em up all but the top 6-8" and put a little fertilizer along side them before you cover 'em up. By this time next year, you'll have "farmer" added to your resume'!!
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We got another 3/4" of rain last night and there must have been some wind in it... Some of our peppers n maters were beat up pretty bad. Would have probably broke 'em off if they hadn't been in those cages. Hope they survive. Had most all the standing water pumped out by about 10:00 this morning. We've just about cut all the broccoli and cauliflower. I think there's 3 or 4 plants of each still growing heads. My bride just started fermenting our very first batch ever of anything. She's trying her hand at making Kimchi... I love the stuff and we're running out of things to do with cabbage. If the fermentation deal works out, she's gonna try sauerkraut next. Still a few heads of cabbage growing... Just about done with the lettuce. It's starting to bolt so it'll get bitter I'm told. So far it's still good. Spinach is gone. We cut the last of it early this week and turned the plants in. Planted more pepper plants in those bags...Squash is coming along though we're fighting mildew and other stuff relating to all the wetness... I think we'll still have a crop. picked a few already. Blossom end-rot has hit us a bit. I'm gonna throw down some Calcium nitrate this evening and water it in good... may be too late but worth a shot.
Peppers and maters are looking real good. Hope they don't have the end-rot stuff. Gonna give them a little shot of calcium too and it's early enough that application should do them good. Got lots of blooms on the eggplants, but no fruits as of yet. Plants are nice and healthy though.
Dill weed (not Dope weed) is almost 4' tall and making those little heads that you see in pickle jars so I guess it's doin' what it's supposed to. Italian basil is like a hedge. Was told to literally take the garden shears and trim it back to make it bush out more... Makes the whole garden smell so good! Don't really have any use for the stuff, but it sure is pretty and aromatic to grow.
Dang in-ground garden is just sitting there... corn and purple hull peas (the two main crops I plan for the in-ground garden) have hardly grown at all after coming up just before the rains started. Need to get the netting off the corn patch so I can run the tiller in there and get the grass knocked down. Not much but want to keep it under control... Purple hull peas haven't bloomed yet and they're barely 6-8" high... should be almost ready for a first picking by now... Harvested about half the beets. They did pretty well. First time for us growing those too... Got 5 pints of pickled beets so far. Will harvest the other half after they've had a chance to grow a bit more.
We actually picked the English peas and first of the green beans early this week. (Plants aren't even big enough to attach themselves good to the trellis!) Had enough to make a nice English pea salad and we had fresh green beans for supper twice. Had a couple nice round (8-ball and queball) squash to slice and fry up with 'em... Fried cabbage, fried squash, fried deer-burger and fresh green beans all doused with fantastic Chow-Chow... That stuff turned out great!!
Wife transplanted her cantaloupes into a molasses tub waiting on the plot to dry out enough to get them in the ground... Since 2 days after I added 4 yards of compost to the plot, it's been standing in water... It's a muddy, sloppy mess. I told her if we have a cantaloupe this year, she'll likely have to grow them in those molasses tubs!!
Blackberries... bout all I can say is wow! They're kickin' it into high hear now. Picked these yesterday and was out there earlier this afternoon and there's probably another dish pan full ready today. Will pick 'em again tomorrow. AND they're still blooming. The primocanes haven't even started to bloom yet and there's more new growth on 'em this year than I think we've ever had.
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Got my 1st zucchini and 1st tomato today!Comment
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