Garden Thread 2023

[wilcam47]

Tilled some weeds.

 

[steves1911]

Tomatoes and peppers are getting blossoms. Potatoes and peas are huge think this will be our best year yet with those. Sweet corn is 4-6" tall probably throw a little fertilizer on it one day this week. Watermelons , squash and zucchini are growing slowly we need rain! I've been letting the sprinkler run on the garden in the evenings to help but it's just not enough.

 

[Archeryrob]

My potatoes are 18" tall be cause they got an early start. Nothing else will grow because the garden it too big to water. If it would just rain. Before it couldn't stop, every weekend. Now it just won't.

 

[Sundazes]

It was a lot of work, but the garden is finally in.

 

[6-Pack]

I thought about starting some Carolina Reaper seeds as this is about the time to start them but changed my mind, I'd rather harvest honey naked than make a mistake with those peppers! Or maybe I'll gift away them in a month or two as bell peppers ....

I got a Carolina Reaper plant at Home Depot of all places. My brother and I are thinking of how in the heck we’ll use them. You know it’ll be rough when the Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) are hotter than pepper spray.

Pepper spray is 1,250,000 SHUs. Jalapeño Peppers come in at 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, Ghost Peppers are 1,000,000 SHUs, and the Carolina Reaper clocks in at 2,200,000 SHUs.

 

[F-Stop]

I used them in hot sauce and as novelty mostly. I had so many I couldn’t use. I blended them and put around garden as pest deterrent. Made sure this year I put them in place that I wouldn’t hit with weed eater or mower THIS time.


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[F-Stop]

Been eating kale, spinach, lettuce last two weeks. Been great going out and just cutting before meal. We cut all spinach tonight to blanch and freeze so we can get another cutting in before heat hits


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[Archeryrob]

It seems the lettuce needs to be fenced in. Planted romaine in 4 rows, two rows of radishes and then 6 rows of buttercrunch. The rabbits destroyed all the lettuce. It is still there, but nothing long enough to pick and they keep it that way.

 

[adit]

It seems the lettuce needs to be fenced in. Planted romaine in 4 rows, two rows of radishes and then 6 rows of buttercrunch. The rabbits destroyed all the lettuce. It is still there, but nothing long enough to pick and they keep it that way.

Eat the rabbits, get the lettuce.

 

[F-Stop]

Mmm, good idea, roasted rabbit and a side salad.


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[wilcam47]

Small but good tasting

 

[Archeryrob]

Got a doe with a fawn hanging around the house. She is eating everything! It was not rabbits, but her eating my lettuce and now has eaten the radish tops. The garden door was left open Monday night and she bite off two cherry tomatoes and pulled them out of the ground. Ate pickling cucumbers to the ground and lost 1/4 of them. Hoping they come back, if not, I'll be planting that side of the A frames again.

She is biting the tops off the corn in the neighbors field too. Back field has wheat or rye in it and without the late soy bean I think she is devouring everything else. I wish she'd eat all the dam bush honeysuckle. She eats some, but must not be on the top of the menu.

 

[mpollan1]

My maters are hosting things I'm not liking but the plants are booming. White flies? Planning on soaping tomorrow. Too windy right now.

 

[adit]

This works well as the soap.

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

Not sure what Walmart, or the forum, is doing to this link (robot or human). It is for Castile soap.

 

[mpollan1]

This works well as the soap.

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

Not sure what Walmart, or the forum, is doing to this link (robot or human). It is for Castile soap.

I have that but will keep it for showering. I bought a bunch of Safer brand soap a few years back. Do you agree they are white flies? The dark things I have no idea.

 

[adit]

I have that but will keep it for showering. I bought a bunch of Safer brand soap a few years back. Do you agree they are white flies? The dark things I have no idea.

Yes, white flies.

The peppermint acts as a deterrent. Limits the need for any insecticides. https://plantcaretoday.com/castile-soap-aphids.html

The others appear to be black aphids.

 

[mpollan1]

Yes, white flies.

The peppermint acts as a deterrent. Limits the need for any insecticides. https://plantcaretoday.com/castile-soap-aphids.html

The others appear to be black aphids.

Thanks, yeah I read that planting mint nearby is a good thing. Next year...

 

[govwontletmebuycoolguns]

My deer have returned. Ate my lettuce, and three of the 4 zucchini plants. Also ate my daughter's flower pot, so she's ready for war too.

 

[ground chuck]

Food planted is jalapeño, blueberry, raspberry and sunflowers. Lavender tree and hydrangeas. Girls slacked off and missed their window to plant other vegetables.

 

[Archeryrob]

The doe with the fawn is terrorizing my garden again. Jumping 4' fences when there is plenty to eat elsewhere. I got A frame fence trellises and she got tangled in them or something eating my cucumbers again. They were pulled out of the ground with their stakes and tossed around in the garden. one was bent up and two other tossed around. I am assuming she got her head in a section of open fence and got tangled and freaked. She also jumped my neighbors garden fence and ate all the beans I was growing in there.

The damn menace came down last evening while I was cultivating the corn to kill weeds and stared at me from 30 yards, unsacred like "I'll be back for that later."