How does your garden grow?

[dragoneggs]

Back home from a Business trip to Japan and was greeted with ripe tomatoes from the green house, raspberries, and broccoli raab from the garden. Better half has been busy.





Found her coded plot map too!

 

[Larro Darro]

Back home from a Business trip to Japan and was greeted with ripe tomatoes from the green house, raspberries, and broccoli raab from the garden. Better half has been busy.



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Found her coded plot map too!

Love that map. I depend on this thread, and just hope I remember to post when I plant something.

 

[Duwop]

Pests in potato patch, I've sprayed Sevin 3 times and can't seem to kill these.
What are they and what would you try to kill with?

 

[DFB]

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Pests in potato patch, I've sprayed Sevin 3 times and can't seem to kill these.
What are they and what would you try to kill with?

That's a Colorado Potato beetle larvae...Permethrins or Pyrethrin products work better than Carbaryl (Sevin). In fact that one product is not even on the recommended list of controls in the New England Vegetable Management guide. NEVMG

There are also neonicotinoide insecticides that also work like acetamiprid and imadacloprids but neonicotinoides usage can be extremely harmful to bees.


The bacterium product Spinosad, Bullseye is one trade name easily obtainable (another product is Entrust) and the Bullseye has always worked excellent for me and is all I have ever needed to use. You will find them dead right where chew on the leaf. Blows their little tummies right up

There are 3 stages with CPB...the adults, the eggs and the soft bodied larvae like in your photo. Hand controls can be effective and a non chemical way to keep down pest pressure if the crop is small enough to manage, look for the egg cluster on the underside of the leaves and crush them.

The guide also views up to 15% defoliation to be an acceptable threshold limit before chemical applications.

 

[lakngulf]

Remember this???



Well, so far it has led to this, and more. First time I have picked vine ripe tomatoes in years. These came straight from the garden. Previously, I had to pick them early or the squirrels would get them. And so far we have enjoyed the fresh corn instead of the raccoons. Hoping for continued success.



And the result is this for supper:

 

[DFB]

Remember this???



Well, so far it has led to this, and more. First time I have picked vine ripe tomatoes in years. These came straight from the garden. Previously, I had to pick them early or the squirrels would get them. And so far we have enjoyed the fresh corn instead of the raccoons. Hoping for continued success.



And the result is this for supper:

Nice..I envy that

Was down vests and talk of wood stoves and pellet heat here today

Nasty weather rains and strong cold winds from the Northwest this here weekend and was running high 40's maybe reached +50F in the mountains all day. Had my shorts on too was +71F when I left the house at 7 am.

More poor garden plants are shivering!

 

[Larro Darro]

Remember this???



Well, so far it has led to this, and more. First time I have picked vine ripe tomatoes in years. These came straight from the garden. Previously, I had to pick them early or the squirrels would get them. And so far we have enjoyed the fresh corn instead of the raccoons. Hoping for continued success.



And the result is this for supper:

Good work. I'm getting a few Pruden's Purple a day, but at least 20-25 of the little Yellow Pear tomatoes. I eat about half of them right in the garden.

Here is today's pickings. First pole beans and first of that crinkly pepper.

 

[lakngulf]

Good work. I'm getting a few Pruden's Purple a day, but at least 20-25 of the little Yellow Pear tomatoes. I eat about half of them right in the garden.

Here is today's pickings. First pole beans and first of that crinkly pepper.

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That looks great. Enjoy!

 

[Sysop]

Started harvesting blueberries today.

Still lots more to go...

 

[Duwop]

That's a Colorado Potato beetle larvae...Permethrins or Pyrethrin products work better than Carbaryl (Sevin). In fact that one product is not even on the recommended list of controls in the New England Vegetable Management guide. NEVMG

There are also neonicotinoide insecticides that also work like acetamiprid and imadacloprids but neonicotinoides usage can be extremely harmful to bees.


The bacterium product Spinosad, Bullseye is one trade name easily obtainable (another product is Entrust) and the Bullseye has always worked excellent for me and is all I have ever needed to use. You will find them dead right where chew on the leaf. Blows their little tummies right up

There are 3 stages with CPB...the adults, the eggs and the soft bodied larvae like in your photo. Hand controls can be effective and a non chemical way to keep down pest pressure if the crop is small enough to manage, look for the egg cluster on the underside of the leaves and crush them.

The guide also views up to 15% defoliation to be an acceptable threshold limit before chemical applications.

Thank you for your help, I picked up a bottle of Captain Jacks Deadbug yesterday at farm supply store with the spinosad.05% going to give this a try and will update whether it works.

 

[Larro Darro]

Sysop, those are some big berries. We have picked a few dozen off the bushes we planted here at the house last year. I've picked a couple of quarts off the patch over at the old house.

 

[Larro Darro]

I transplanted 4 six packs of Armenian cucumbers {2 rows} today. Had a few left over that I put in the skips of the older plants. Also picked up 2 Mammoth Jalapeno pepper plants in town today, and got them in the ground right at dark.

My winter squash is coming up pretty good. And the sun has pulled the young corn up quite a bit.

 

[robbyr]

Larro, you post so much about planting something all the time that I'm envisioning a garden about the size of Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Can you get a pic of it in one photo?

 

[robbyr]

Sure is a lot of weed pulling etc. for one pan full of snap beans. Hope they make a second round.

 

[Sysop]

Sysop, those are some big berries. We have picked a few dozen off the bushes we planted here at the house last year. I've picked a couple of quarts off the patch over at the old house.

Thanks, that's my best bush. That particular bush is about 20 years old, gets pruned every year, is over 6' tall, and about 4' round. It produces about two gallons per year. Very sweet and flavorful.

 

[Larro Darro]

Larro, you post so much about planting something all the time that I'm envisioning a garden about the size of Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Can you get a pic of it in one photo?

Here you go. This is from the east looking west.



West looking east.

 

[DFB]

My garden today...looking good after being beat down last week with wind, cold air and rain! Was only +49F last Sunday afternoon.

Cukes suffered the worst.

Less than 30 days in...May 16 was snow flurries here and measurable accumulation higher on the mountain.

 

[Larro Darro]

My garden today...looking good after being beat down last week with wind, cold air and rain! Was only +49F last Sunday afternoon.

Cukes suffered the worst.

Less than 30 days in...May 16 was snow flurries here and measurable accumulation higher on the mountain.


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No wonder you used the black plastic. We had a cool Spring too. But that meant lows in the high 50's for a few nights.

 

[LA Confederate]

Picked some corn to take to work tonight for me and the guys at the plant. Grilling steaks and corn for Fathers Day since we're working.

The heirloom okra is finally coming in and so are some of the peas. The deer have devastated a lot of the peas and such. If they don't quit I may be putting some venison in the freezer soon.

I'll probably harvest the rest of the ears of corn over the next few weeks and try for a second planting as soon as it's dry enough to get the tractor in the field and till.

 

[Larro Darro]

Picked some corn to take to work tonight for me and the guys at the plant. Grilling steaks and corn for Fathers Day since we're working.

The heirloom okra is finally coming in and so are some of the peas. The deer have devastated a lot of the peas and such. If they don't quit I may be putting some venison in the freezer soon.

I'll probably harvest the rest of the ears of corn over the next few weeks and try for a second planting as soon as it's dry enough to get the tractor in the field and till.

Fresh corn is about my favorite part of the garden. My first planting of sweet corn has played out. I do still have a gallon bag of nubby ears in the fridge we are eating on. I did eat a couple of ears of the field corn today, raw and in the garden. Most of it won't get picked, as the pole beans are already wrapped around the ears. We also had the first mess of pole beans today.