How does your garden grow?

[goeduck]

I tried the fabric and it was great the first few years. After that it seemed to be critter cover and I lost more from mice camping out under the fabric.

 

[Oaktree]

I bought a 100 foot roll of 3' wide landscape fabric at the hardware store this spring for $29.95. Wouldn't you know, the very next week our local salvage/discount store (Marden's, to Maine members here) had the same stuff for $9.99.

Love that store! We're about an hour and a half drive from their store in Rumford...we'll go there a couple times a year. Better selection of nuts/bolts/hardware than many of the box stores, and my wife likes their fabric selection.

 

[Oaktree]

I tried the fabric and it was great the first few years. After that it seemed to be critter cover and I lost more from mice camping out under the fabric.

Yeah, I also found it to be more trouble than it was worth. And just one more thing to go into the landfill when it deteriorates.

 

[Jstpssng]

Love that store! We're about an hour and a half drive from their store in Rumford...we'll go there a couple times a year. Better selection of nuts/bolts/hardware than many of the box stores, and my wife likes their fabric selection.

They have a pretty good chain selection also. I need a few more chokers and plan to get some #70 chain from them.

 

[robbyr]

About 15 or 20 years ago we went to a roadside fresh produce stand. Lot of stuff there. Bought some fresh pinto beans. Not sure why but I seem to remember them being a slightly purplish color. They were really good and you could tell the difference between them and store bought dried beans. Fast forward to this year. Never planted pintos before so I did. Just picked a mess, shelled them, and cooked a pot. Taste just like store bought dried beans. Kinda disappointing after going to the trouble of planting, weeding, and shelling. Why did the ones back then taste “different”?

 

[herm0016]

what do you do about voles?

we have a family camping out between our garden and our neighbors.

I laugh at the people that are picking things already. our stuff just went in the ground 2 weeks ago. I have a few flowers on the berry bushes and maybe one squash blossom. we lost a bunch of stuff due to poor hardening off practices i think.

 

[goeduck]

what do you do about voles?

we have a family camping out between our garden and our neighbors.

I laugh at the people that are picking things already. our stuff just went in the ground 2 weeks ago. I have a few flowers on the berry bushes and maybe one squash blossom. we lost a bunch of stuff due to poor hardening off practices i think.

We are not nearly as far along as many members but we do have tomatoes formed and blackberries in the red stage. I am way behind on peas and cabbage. The cabbage I had to replant, years ago I bought some seed and none of it sprouted. This year I planted seed from that same dang package :duh: :mur: :duh: :mur:

This time I threw it out. I was late to start with, now I am really late.

 

[farmer2009]

Thanks. I read those and none seem to fit. I have noticed some of the plants are starting to revive but others are getting worse. Still hope to get one to the ag agent this week.

Your pictures and your description reminds me a scald in tobacco. Happens after heavy rain fall which you said you had. Especially if you get a bright hot sun soon after and before the soil can drain the water down. My understanding of it, is a reaction to lack of oxygen in the soil and a hot sun. Some plants will grow out of it. Some won’t. We usually added extra nitrogen to tobacco in order to help pull it out.

Your 8 inch rain event was only 3.5 for me.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Feels like a Late September Morning. Reminds me of 911. Cool, Clear, crisp!

Garden pretty much dead, tomatoes, squash, cucumber, carrotts and even the sunflowers!

Who knows what the potatoes are doing underground.

Seedlings planted in the garden as well as in a top soil pile, where I made a terrace, same thing, each location.

Bought a large tomatoe Plant a couple of days ago.

First time in my life I didn't see a June Bug all spring. Uually one week a year some flying ants or something invade my Office Window Sill. I don't bother them and they don't bother me. They never made an appearance either!

 

[goeduck]

Pennies in water in a small ziplock works for flies around here. Apparently their vision is totally messed up and they stay clear.

Does this really work? I googled it and get more yes than no responses.