KevT
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Our corn seems to be loaded with Eastern Leaf Footed bugs. Not sure how to get rid of them, anybody have any ideas?
How does your garden grow?
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Larro Darro
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If there isn't lots of rain, Sevin Dust should work. I also have some spray that I can't remember the name of right now. I have two kinds actually. One you hook a hose to the jug and don't have to worry about mixing, and the other you put in a sprayer, mixed with water. I haven't had to use dust or spray yet this season, but with the rain, the bugs will be right behind it.
buckeyefarmer
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Started planting the garden yesterday
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Larro Darro
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I'm heading out to pick the squash before work. Should have Jalapeno ready in a couple more days.
KevT
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This was the pickings this morning
The turnips will be tomorrow nights dinner, Creamed turnips on wild rice, we now have 6 gallons of green beans, 1 of the sugar snaps, 1 of the peas, and just started picking the lima's.
The turnips will be tomorrow nights dinner, Creamed turnips on wild rice, we now have 6 gallons of green beans, 1 of the sugar snaps, 1 of the peas, and just started picking the lima's.
TomSeller
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Very nice looking veggies.
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Larro Darro
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Looking good Kev. Margie ask for greens, and I got as far as buying seeds. But they never got planted. I am harvesting squash, green beans and sugar snaps though.
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Larro Darro
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These pictures were from yesterday. Jalapeno peppers. Bell peppers. Yellow squash, acorn squash and cucumber.
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Larro Darro
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From this morning. Peas, blooms on the big melons, blooms on the banana cantaloupe, beefsteak tomatoes starting to turn, {blooms on the three other tomatoes, but didn't take pictures} sweet corn tassel and silk, Crimson Sweet and even the garden flowers are starting to bloom.
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Larro Darro
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Today and tomorrow the signs are in the breast, making it the best two planting days this month. But I'm going canoeing on the Chipola River tomorrow, which meant I tried to cram two days' work in one day. I did transplant a row of tomatoes, five Roma and five Rutgers. Did a row {17} of Jalapeno. Planted banana cantaloupe and the big long melon seeds in the skips. Planted a few dozen peach pits in a few big pots. And Chris, the cousin I'm going down the river with, came by in his Kabota UTV just in time to help me dig up a Tangerine that had outgrown it's pot, move it with his UTV, then lower it down into the hole two or three times before I got it the right depth and width. It was in a 20 gallon pot, and very sticky, so I was glad to have the help.
During the heat of the day I worked on putting tomato and pepper sprouts into cups. Then got back out and side dressed the green beans, rewatered all the new plants and some of the others, and worked on getting the waterline trenches filled in. Dark caught me before I finished, but I did get a pretty long stretch covered.
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Larro Darro
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Margie picked the first blueberries off our new bushes. We had a wind storm blow through last night. It knocked down some of my sweet corn, and blew melon and cucumber vines around. A few cucumbers and the first tomato of the season.
TomSeller
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Do you buy your soaker hose from a commercial source and what pressure do you run it at? I have an artesian well that puts out huge volumes at less than 10psi and works really well for a slow soak.
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Larro Darro
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I'm using the black soaker hoses, not the a drip system. I should buy it in bulk, but I just get the 75' hoses from Lowe's. When possible, I cut them down to fit the row. But for peas and corn I just run them up one row and down the next, hooking more than one hose together. I use plastic inline valves between hoses because they all don't have the same soaker rate. As far as PSI, I don't know what I'm running. I adjust each spigot to where there is enough pressure for four hoses, then use the valves on the quad-splitter to fine tune it. In past years I would use very low pressure and leave it on all the time. This year I'm using more water for two and three hours every two to three days. I have found that the 5/16" works better than the 1/2" when cutting and plugging. I'm using some of the old hoses that have leaks for the grapevines and blueberry bushes. After a few years they always have leaks.
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Larro Darro
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It was an early day at work for me, so I didn't have much time in the garden this morning. I put the sprinklers on the melons and cucumbers early, before the sun was hot and the humidity was still high. Then got everything else watered, including the new plants.
The field corn is tasseling now. And there was a bloom on one of the {8"} mini sweet pepper plants. I got more posts and stakes drove, and tied up all the tomatoes but the ones I had planted a couple of days ago. I used a 1/64th drill bit to turn a cheap garden hose into a drip irrigation system. It worked pretty good except for the last hole. Since it was flowing up hill, I turned it around. It worked better, but all the holes didn't line up perfect then. Luckily the plants are in pots. It won't take but a few minutes to get them straightened out when I have time.
The field corn is tasseling now. And there was a bloom on one of the {8"} mini sweet pepper plants. I got more posts and stakes drove, and tied up all the tomatoes but the ones I had planted a couple of days ago. I used a 1/64th drill bit to turn a cheap garden hose into a drip irrigation system. It worked pretty good except for the last hole. Since it was flowing up hill, I turned it around. It worked better, but all the holes didn't line up perfect then. Luckily the plants are in pots. It won't take but a few minutes to get them straightened out when I have time.
lakngulf
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Was gone on a trip for a few days and came home to find these ready to pick. My daughter and grandson picked about this much just a few days before. Great to enter the harvest season. Fresh Veggies are fine!
This is where we visited. An amazing art handiwork in macro!
This is where we visited. An amazing art handiwork in macro!
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Larro Darro
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Great view, Milton.
Margie picked the first Bell and Jalapeno peppers this morning. She is planning a salad with everything but the onions from the garden. {Cucumbers, tomatoes, squash and peppers} And it shouldn't be too long on the onions.
Margie picked the first Bell and Jalapeno peppers this morning. She is planning a salad with everything but the onions from the garden. {Cucumbers, tomatoes, squash and peppers} And it shouldn't be too long on the onions.
farmer2009
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Well the garden is white capping. So just maybe this sun and wind will dry it out enough for it to be tilled and planted tonight.
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farmer2009
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Make sure you wear you wear your flotation device
I knew someone would go there. Just thought it would take longer.
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TomSeller
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I have a garden on one of my remote properties that grows cabbage for kraut and broccoli real well. Two weeks ago I transplanted 140 late sprouts and put a timer on for irrigation. I went there yesterday and 138 of them had been eaten down to nothing. Getting a little late in the season but I planted about 50 more today that I will transplant at a different location. I hope I get enough cabbage for this season's kraut. I think it was mice.
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