2023 Gardening Thread

[Bort]

Here’s a look inside the Cherry tomato.

[ctom87]

Man - I would have appreciated the info on Sevin
I didn't even think about pollinators. I just read the label and triple the time to harvest.

[rocky]

Here’s a look inside the Cherry tomato.

Larvae from tomatoe fly

[SaltwaterSlick]

Well the rain has kicked us in the arse! I'd say close to half of my pepper plants are just shedding blooms and leaves to even the point of dying!! Sickening! It's hard to give plants in grow bags too much water, but constant rains day after day I guess will do it. We did have a pretty good harvest this morning cleaning out the last of our greens... the Bok Choy hung on the longest with a few cauliflowers too... Got a decent amount of squash coming along now. Seem to have finally gotten ahead of the diseases with the regular spraying of Liqui-Cop and Neem oil. The upper fruits are not having near as much blossom end rot as before. Too much water though is a factor in the squash/zucchini too. Dang berries are ridiculous!! We picked them pretty close this morning. Hadn't picked in 3 days... Filled up 2 dish pans!! Still everything from blooms to green berries to reds. This morning even has some past ripe that were too mushy to save! The crop so far has been the floracanes. Primacanes have just started to bloom so second crop hasn't even started yet!! Will pull the last of the beets this afternoon. Going to try to give the in-ground a couple more days to dry a bit, then I will take down the bird netting so I can get to the corn plot and turn it under... Since the rain started, the corn just came up and got to about 4-6" tall and sat there... It did not grow. It did not die. It is just a pale green and sitting... No way it will every grow, tassel and produce anything... zero corn two years in a row... Looks like the peas (top pick pink eye field peas) are going to make a crop. About half of them are looking pretty healthy and starting to put out the little chutes to begin blooming... got our fingers crossed that this sunshine and warm nights will kick them into high gear.













Y'all are gonna laugh at me, but one night while I was watching my pumps when I first put them out, I walked around the garden plots with my son's Daisy BB gun and shot two big jugs full of crawfish and saved them to feed to the chickens the next morning!! I was ON THE HUNT, and I had a ball!!

[Gumbo Man]

Crawfish plinkin is a new one one me Charlie.

[basschump]

Please send every drop of unwanted rain to the Hill Country. Lease is sitting at 4 inches of rain for the year. And only 13 last year. It’s terribly dry.

We finally got a couple of inches at the house. My plants went into overdrive. This will be an amazing tomato harvest if they finish.

[Man]

Y'all are gonna laugh at me, but one night while I was watching my pumps when I first put them out, I walked around the garden plots with my son's Daisy BB gun and shot two big jugs full of crawfish and saved them to feed to the chickens the next morning!! I was ON THE HUNT, and I had a ball!!

Thats awesome! We have been scooping them up by the dozens with a net and wearing the catfish and bass out.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Told my wife we should just build a berm and raise crawfish instead of have a garden... She didn't think that was a bit funny!

[AgHntr10]

Mystery plant update, any guesses?

[eradicator]

Mystery plant update, any guesses?

squash/zuchini

[SaltwaterSlick]

Yup, but I'd say squash most likely and a summer squash at that... Most zuc's and Winter squash have a more rounded 3 lobed leaf... Of course that little sucker I guess could turn into one when it grows a bit...

[dhall1414]

Well the rain has kicked us in the arse! I'd say close to half of my pepper plants are just shedding blooms and leaves to even the point of dying!! Sickening! It's hard to give plants in grow bags too much water, but constant rains day after day I guess will do it. We did have a pretty good harvest this morning cleaning out the last of our greens... the Bok Choy hung on the longest with a few cauliflowers too... Got a decent amount of squash coming along now. Seem to have finally gotten ahead of the diseases with the regular spraying of Liqui-Cop and Neem oil. The upper fruits are not having near as much blossom end rot as before. Too much water though is a factor in the squash/zucchini too. Dang berries are ridiculous!! We picked them pretty close this morning. Hadn't picked in 3 days... Filled up 2 dish pans!! Still everything from blooms to green berries to reds. This morning even has some past ripe that were too mushy to save! The crop so far has been the floracanes. Primacanes have just started to bloom so second crop hasn't even started yet!! Will pull the last of the beets this afternoon. Going to try to give the in-ground a couple more days to dry a bit, then I will take down the bird netting so I can get to the corn plot and turn it under... Since the rain started, the corn just came up and got to about 4-6" tall and sat there... It did not grow. It did not die. It is just a pale green and sitting... No way it will every grow, tassel and produce anything... zero corn two years in a row... Looks like the peas (top pick pink eye field peas) are going to make a crop. About half of them are looking pretty healthy and starting to put out the little chutes to begin blooming... got our fingers crossed that this sunshine and warm nights will kick them into high gear.

Y'all are gonna laugh at me, but one night while I was watching my pumps when I first put them out, I walked around the garden plots with my son's Daisy BB gun and shot two big jugs full of crawfish and saved them to feed to the chickens the next morning!! I was ON THE HUNT, and I had a ball!!
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will crawfish eat leaves off plants? i have a mulberry sapling that had all its ground level leaves chewed off overnight last night and it's 10 yards from the drainage ditch that's basically been a pond the last month. i see crawfish in there all the time and leave them alone.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Man, I never heard of crawfish eating vegetation! I get mounds up in my in-ground garden and never have I seen any sign where they have come out and ate on anything... THAT would REALLY PIZZ me off!!!! If they ate greenery, I'd be a baren mud hole with no pasture grass!!

[eradicator]

will crawfish eat leaves off plants? i have a mulberry sapling that had all its ground level leaves chewed off overnight last night and it's 10 yards from the drainage ditch that's basically been a pond the last month. i see crawfish in there all the time and leave them alone.

Prolly only if you wrap bacon around it

[SaltwaterSlick]

I'd bet a rabbit paid you a visit... or a deer... both LOVE mulberry leaves... Deer on our old property used to pick up fallen leaves from the mulberry trees faster than corn or acorns!