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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Thanks! Peaceful Valley, Johnny’s Seeds, Baker Creek and Shumway is where I’ve gotten most thinsg. Fedco and Southern Exposurek look to be other good sources. Some links:
http://www.groworganic.com/seeds/cover-crop/annual-cover-crops.html?p=1
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-211-grains.aspx
http://www.rhshumway.com/dc.asp?c1=Farm+Seeds&c=233
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/ogs/search.php?OGSname=
http://www.southernexposure.com/grains-cover-crops-c-29.html?zenid=bvvt3r9i320alr3k85j16oreh3
http://rareseeds.com/vegetables-d-o/grains.html
Can I move in? I could really help out! Your garden is beautiful!
Sounds like a great project. But I wound not want any of the seeds they produce!
No. The yard is blugrass/Dutch clover mix, when it gets long I rake it and till it in any bare patch. Some patches get two or three applications a year. When I’m out of compost I’ve even put fresh cut, very wet grass in trenches and cover them to plant, or put it under transplants. Both ways will do wonders in just one season, so I imagine lasagna gardening will do the same.
Bless your heart ... that looks like hail. :(
Build them a Bates Motel swimming pool. 5 gallon bucket 1/2 full of water. A board leaning up for them to climb up and jump off into the water. Sunflower seeds leading up the board and a hand full of seeds floating on the water in the bucket. Buh By.
Hail, and lots of it.
4 tomato plants, 8 cucumber plants, radishes, and all my flowers including the foxglove I posted a picture of last week.
I’m depressed.
The leaves turning up may indicate not enough water in your case. The turning up and turning in on themselves can be a sign that they are trying to save water by limiting their exposure to the air and prevent water vapor from evaporating. Or the roots have not developed enough to supply the above ground plant with moisture.
That is cruel! Yours and tubebenders gardens always do so well!
So, I watered the garden well three days ago. Things seemed a little perked up by the next day, but no big difference. Late morning yesterday we have this nice long rain. Today the tomatoes look like they are about a third taller.
“People” water must be way worse than I’d imagined.
Our garden got a late start - HUGE hail a few weeks ago, took out almost everything. Lucky that half hadn’t been planted due to a late last frost forecast.
Here in NY we can’t plant to the ground until the very end of May.
Where do you get the rice hulls from?
If I even get a whiff of hail; I place empty 5-gallon pots or pastry buckets over the smaller plants...works every time.
I expect explosive growth from my plants if/when the sun finally shows tomorrow after four days of clouds, mist and showers...we had a talk about it this afternoon, and they know I am serious. :-)
Mmmmm...salsa.
I have a lot of rock and caliche. I mostly build raised beds and fill them with horse manure. After about a year, you’ll find that the underlying rock/clay soil starts to loosen up.
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I think that more than one gardener on this thread may have better luck in their gardens with a hoophouse. I've just started on my hoophouse. A regular greenhouse is just too hot here in the summer.
I am headed in that direction myself...gardening is too important nowadays to ‘leave it to chance’.
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