Posted on 06/24/2011 5:15:19 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Well this past week brought a respite from the sunny hot weather here in Mississippi. We received two days of beneficial rains, which helped to revive my garden. Watching the radar it looked like a good portion of south-central Texas from San Antonio to the northeast corner received some rain also. I hope it was helpful to our gardeners over that way. My winter squash are growing like mad and my hot and sweet peppers are doing great. What is left of my tomatoes seem to have revived a bit during these rainy and cloudy days. I really hope that what ever weather you have had improved a bit for you and your gardens this past week.
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My thoughts were that they suffered from lack of moisture until the roots got deep enough to sustain without much watering, but I don't know for sure.
It is possible to burn the leaves right off of plants with too much nitrogen. Phosphorus is what you want to support flowering and fruit staying on the vine.
It is good in salads (has a mild cucumber taste), is used as a herbal remedy for congestion I think, and the flowers are a pretty blue and bumblebees love them.
Foliar feeding in triple digit heat with no rain is not your best option. If you used regular Miracle Grow, it probably had more nitrogen than the plant could metabolize under stress. For tomatoes in hot, dry weather, I would recommend feeding something like Pennington pelleted tomato food, placed around the base of the plant, which will dissolve over time when you water.
Once you go cattle panels, you’ll never go back! They are wonderful back savers. Keep me posted on your results, if you have time.
Time for Tennessee, my FRiend!
I will gladly split my 100+ temps with your 50's, and we'll all enjoy mid 70's. Deal?
Good grief man ... with beautiful corn and berries like you have, you can’t possibly be thinking about complaining. Those are nice photos!
Very nice photos! Good work on your gardens.
LOL! You and your salsa!
Sometimes tomatoes mutate like that. I’ve had a couple with leaves that were similar. Alot of times they don’t survive to transplant, but sometimes they do and produce fine.
Ihave not idea. I think if you want to keep the dried leaves, just dry them in the oven or a dehyrator. I’m not a fan of cilantro, so don’t plant it. If hubby wants a salsa or whatever, he picks it up at the restaurant. I love the seeds, as I use the crushed, sived seeds in a sweet dough. I’d just gather the seeds, dry them and find a fantastic recipe to use them. If hubby loves the salsa with the cilantro in it, go ahead and use it, carefully pull out the new sprouts and put them in the compost heap, don’t let the rest go to seed, unless you want to use the seeds,crushed, sieved and put in a sweet doubh.
Sweet. (Hoping for sun tomorrow and eighty on Sunday. Oh, please...)
Anyhoo, you spent way too much on the used tool, but the thought of 15 or 20 years of hard labor is the real clue that your heart was in the right place with the gift.
Really, it is the velcro garden tape that is the perfect solution ... the rebar is just plain ol' cheap. :^)
Thanks! I was Dark Lord of Destruction today on the weeds. There was actually a garden in there when I was done.
Keep posting your pics, love to see everybody’s handiwork on the thread. Really livens up the discussion.
Thank you!
Thanks!
Do you have the rebar cut at the lumber yard and what diameter and cut length is it?... and how far and with what do you drive them in the soil?
I prefer raised beds over trying to improve poor soil myself. It is expensive initially though. I was reading through a book a few days ago that was talking about “rock mulches”.
They actually put rocks in the back and sides of the beds. This helped them to use the beds longer in the winter time, because the heat built up during the day was released slowly during the night. I think they also said it helped to conserve water, but I am not sure why.
Great pictures! My corn is already knee high ( course that is using my knees, and I am not very tall.) LOL
I would probably let it flower just to see what it looks like.
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