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To: dervish

I love your enthusiasm! I hope your tomatoes stay on a good track. How long has your zucchini been flowering without producing fruit? What formula of fertilizer have you used?


108 posted on 07/15/2012 9:59:35 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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Started planning and seeding for the Fall backyard garden.

Seeded in flats:

Cucumbers: Suyo Long (8), Baby Cucina (4)
Tomatoes: Park's Container Choice (12), 4th of July (12), Hillbilly regular leaf (4), Kellog's Breakfast (4), BHN 640 (4) Husky cherry (4)
Tomatillo: Gigante (4)
Sweet peppers: Bannanarame (4) Big Early (3) Mystery Seed (3)
Eggplant: Masego (Thai 4) Black Shine (Japanese 4), Shoya Long (Japanese 4)
Squash: Hokkori 133 (Japanese 4), Waltham Butternut (4)

None of these varieties are recommended for central Texas. I've had pretty good luck trying new-to-me plants, since I have the time to tend to them. Biggest disappointment was a Japanese tomato, Grande, and an heirloom tomato, Lillian's Yellow. Grande started out great, produced nicely, but shriveled up and died when the heat hit. Lillian's Yellow never produced a blossom, but no big deal since being a cool weather, late season tomato I didn't expect anything until the Fall, but the plants also died. Other heirlooms which did well were Aunt Ruby's German Green, Beefy Boy, and Virginia Sweets, though fruit was overall significantly smaller than I expected.

Still growing in the garden are Biker Billy Jalapeno, Joe Parker New Mexico peppers, Thai hot, Thai Giant, plablano and habanero. For some reason, I've never had much luck growing habanero, whether I put them in ground or in containers. Spring continued my bad luck. But the other hot peppers gave and will give great yields.

Odd story was my Cisneros Tomatillo plants. Had two in containers side by side. Both grew lush foliage. One was loaded with fruit and the other was barren. Gonna try Gigante for the Fall

Going into the ground in mid-August to mid-September will be yet-to-be-selected cabbage transplants (had great luck last year), Georgia Collard transplants (always good results), Blue Lake green beans, Usui Snow Peas, Orient Wonder yard long beans, Mape Green Mung beans for sprouts, garlic and onion sets.

And that ought to fill up all my ground and all my containers. Was hit particularly hard by Tomato blossom end-rot during the Spring. Curious to see what happens with the next crop.

109 posted on 07/16/2012 6:31:11 AM PDT by Racehorse
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Six weeks. The plants are big and healthy. Lots of flowers but I think they are all male. I use Plantone (5-3-3) and kelp spray. Its a new bed and I used composted manure mixed with the soil. The tomatoes are in the same bed and are producing well.

Last week I moved three Zucchinis out to another spot on the theory that they were too crowded. I think I structured the bed wrong. I moved some peppers too. Now I have two beds.


110 posted on 07/16/2012 6:34:53 AM PDT by dervish (ABO)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
I've gotten a little rusty with my HTML skills so this is a test...


113 posted on 07/16/2012 10:34:36 PM PDT by tubebender
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