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Weekly Gardening Thread – 2009 Vol.2 – May 22
FreeRepublic | 5-22-2009 | Red_Devil 232

Posted on 05/22/2009 4:17:16 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232

This is the second edition of the 2009 Weekly Gardening Thread. If you are a gardener or an aspiring gardener please stop in from time to time during the next week and share your experiences. Last weeks thread was a great success. Thanks to all who participated!


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Gardening; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: garden; gardening; weekly
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To: murrie
blight is common to both taters and maters. Early blight is caused by the fungus, Alternaria solani that thrives in the stems and remains there even after the season is over.

Combat for blight is simple after the fact. Immaculate clean up of vines and stems and DO NOT COMPOST them. Remove them completely and then ROTATE your next year's crops. Tomatoes and potatoes should never be grown in the same spot more than one year. The fungus will also live in the soil, waiting to create heartache the next year.

Look at hybrids that have blight resistance in their habit. Heirlooms very often a susceptible especially if the condition already exists.

A soil test is good no matter what the case ... use it an balance the pH if need be and maintain a good nitorgen base.

Also watering habits are important. Keep the plant dry and water only the soil. If you do water overhead, do it early in the day ..it knocks the dew off and allows the vines to dry quickly in early morning sunlight.

I suspect your soil ... move your tomatoes to an opposite end of the garden and then clean up immediately and thoroughly in the fall.I would even go as far as digging and pulling and discarding the roots.

Good luck

141 posted on 05/22/2009 8:03:09 PM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: P8riot

I have a friend that has done the tire thing for years. Fortunately he has a small acreage and the unsightly tires can be put out of site and out of mind. His yields are simply amazing. With aesthetics being the case in a gated community I have a woodworker friend that makes stackable cedar boxes and does the same thing as if they were tires. Those beautifully hand crafted/dovetailed boxes are a thing to behold beauty wise. Even better looking with the plant foliage. His complaint .... “that ten pound bag of potatoes cost me 50 bucks to grow” But .. he had fun doing so.


142 posted on 05/22/2009 8:11:04 PM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: Petronski

It is an incredible method.


143 posted on 05/22/2009 8:14:26 PM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: P8riot

I have a similar room in the basement where I store canned and paper goods. It has no window, and a dehumidifier keeps it dry. It does get a bit warmer on occasion than I would like it to though.

I may look into keeping “roots” there.


144 posted on 05/22/2009 10:06:22 PM PDT by Grammy (It amazes me how much someone with character and integrity offends someone without.)
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To: Carolinamom

You are added


145 posted on 05/23/2009 2:08:22 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: tillacum

The brand name of the soap is “Safer Insecticidal Soap” I think I purchased it at Lowe’s last year. I also used Sevin which is what I think did in the beetles.


146 posted on 05/23/2009 2:21:21 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: tillacum

You havn been added


147 posted on 05/23/2009 2:25:11 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Thank you for the ping.
148 posted on 05/23/2009 3:32:23 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Bama and Company are reenacting the Pharaoh as told by Moses in Genesis!!!!!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

please add me to your ping list.
Thenk you


149 posted on 05/23/2009 8:50:18 AM PDT by cgw33
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To: cgw33

You have been added.


150 posted on 05/23/2009 8:54:02 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

It’s a fignomenon!!! Congratulations!


151 posted on 05/23/2009 8:59:54 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: HiramQuick
“that ten pound bag of potatoes cost me 50 bucks to grow”

Ah, but those $50 potatoes taste sooooooo much better. :-)

152 posted on 05/23/2009 9:02:03 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Gabz
Wow! I missed your post about the seeds yesterday. If you find a few of the seeds I would like to get them.

The Acorn and Zucchini squash are the only squash my wife will eat. Matter of fact she saved some Acorn seeds from one she bought at the grocery store and gave them to me to plant. I told her I did not think they would produce. But what do I know?

Anybody know?

153 posted on 05/23/2009 9:34:26 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Please add me to your ping list.


154 posted on 05/23/2009 12:33:00 PM PDT by grannie9 (Of all the things I've ever lost,...I miss my mind the most.)
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To: grannie9

Youy have been added


155 posted on 05/23/2009 12:49:57 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I have some 4th of July tomato seeds that I probably won’t use this year. PM me if you want me to send you a pinch of seeds in the mail. Thank you for your service too, on this Memorial Day!


156 posted on 05/24/2009 5:32:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme looks remarkably similar to the way Social Security works)
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To: Red_Devil 232; All
I was wondering if anyone knows what my mystery flowers are. I found these in the middle of the yard this morning where nothing like them had grown before.

They branch from a single stem about 3 inches tall with no leaves that I can see. The flowers are about an inch in diameter. I live in southern michigan if that helps.

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157 posted on 05/25/2009 2:08:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

Marsh Bellflower?

Look at number 61 to the left of the page here...

http://www.carsoncity.k12.mi.us/~hsstudent/wildflowers/


158 posted on 05/25/2009 2:33:26 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Marsh Bellflower is definitely the closest I’ve seen. It is growing less than 20 feet from the lake. The stem looks similar too.

I find all kinds of wildflowers during my wanderings that I don’t recognize.


159 posted on 05/25/2009 2:38:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

Star of Bethlehem

160 posted on 05/25/2009 2:50:36 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
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