How does your garden grow?

[buckeyefarmer]

Coming up. Using a better weed block this yr.

 

[Alan W.]

Jstpssng, goeduck I pulled one of the cabbage plants. The roots look fine. No rot or insects. The stem is crisp and full of juice and no discoloration. They are wilting just like they are drying up. If I get a chance I will take one to the ag extension agent to see what he says. I noticed it is starting to affect some other cabbage plants I have planted away from the garden.

 

[Jstpssng]

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That's too bad. I was thinking of cabbage maggots, although they usually attack young seedlings. If you do get a chance to take them to the Extension agent please post back, I would like to know what they say.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Buckeye>> that's got my interest.. what are u using?? THATS a GOOD LOOKIN garden.!!

 

[Jstpssng]

Coming up. Using a better weed block this yr

That looks good. My father could lay plastic so that it looked like a fitted sheet on a bed, whereas mine is always lumpy, uneven, and the wind always seems to get under it. He tried to tell me how he did it but I still can't get it right..

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Buckeye>> that's got my interest.. what are u using?? THATS a GOOD LOOKIN garden.!!

Its hdpe plastic ordered from amazon. I got 3' wide, but comes in other widths. Will have to see how it handles crab grass. Also get lots of staples to hold it down.

Used to use landscape fabric, but it kept getting thinner, to the point last year weeds grew under it and shoved the staples out of the ground, plus crabgrass still grew through it.

 

[Molalla1]

Jstpssng, goeduck I pulled one of the cabbage plants. The roots look fine. No rot or insects. The stem is crisp and full of juice and no discoloration. They are wilting just like they are drying up. If I get a chance I will take one to the ag extension agent to see what he says. I noticed it is starting to affect some other cabbage plants I have planted away from the garden.

Have you maybe over fertilized them? that can put a coating on the roots so they can't take water in.

 

[/pine]

Jstpssng, goeduck I pulled one of the cabbage plants. The roots look fine. No rot or insects. The stem is crisp and full of juice and no discoloration. They are wilting just like they are drying up. If I get a chance I will take one to the ag extension agent to see what he says. I noticed it is starting to affect some other cabbage plants I have planted away from the garden.

Have tried looking here?: cabbage wilt - Google Search

 

[Jstpssng]

Its hdpe plastic ordered from amazon. I got 3' wide, but comes in other widths. Will have to see how it handles crab grass. Also get lots of staples to hold it down.

Used to use landscape fabric, but it kept getting thinner, to the point last year weeds grew under it and shoved the staples out of the ground, plus crabgrass still grew through it.

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. I also have some wide black plastic which my father gave me, every year that's what my tomatoes get planted in.

 

[Alan W.]

Have tried looking here?: cabbage wilt - Google Search

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.