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[JustaDumbBlonde]

Mornin’, Red.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Good morning all. It’s been raing al week. When I was checking my garden yesterday between shouwers, I noticed something “funnY’ about my tomatoes. Keep in mind that these plants have been in the ground only about 2 1/2 weeks. In that time, they have more than doubled in size, set a few tomatoes, etc. ut, I noticed yesterday that one out of the 16 plants looks funny” on top. The topmost leaves are bending back upon themselves so that the leaf looks more like a poinsietta leaf than a tomato leaf. They are sort of pity around the edges.

All the rest of the plants look fine. It’s an “Early Girl”. I’ll post pictures later on. I took some photos last night, but I want to take some more. I need to get at another computer to post them.

My question: Should I just pull out this plant before it contaminates the others? Should I spray it with something?

[Gabz]

Good morning! We finally got some rain, but could sure use more. However, I’m not complaining, others are in far worse shape than we are.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning RD. Not much to say about the garden, but we did get over 2.5” of much needed rain in central Texas. We are in a severe drought, and the weather people say it will take seven or more rain events like we had the other day to break out of this dry spell.

[Betis70]

‘Misty’ describes the weather here this week. Lettuce loves it. Everything and everyone else is wondering when the sun is coming back.

Barney Kessel (jazz guitarist) playing a nice version of the jazz standard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjI0XyrgtCU

[Mrs. Don-o]

I've got some big squash vines growing up a trellis --- North Gergia Candy Roaster is the variety. The upper leaves (up on the trellis) look great, it's growing vigorously, and it's setting fruit. But the bottom leaves, the ones closest the ground, are all turning yellow, then brown, then falling off. What's happening, do you think?

They're in big 20 gal. containers with plenty of drainage holes, but it's been phenomenally rainy for the past 7-10 days. Do you suppose they could be getting root-rot from too much water? Or could it be I've over-fertilized it? (Before it got so rainy, I was feeding it a high-nitrogen liquid fertilizer: diluted properly, but pretty regularly. Maybe too much?)

No visible sign of fungus or mold, by the way. And the upper plant looks swell. Just yellowing and dying of lower leaves.

BTW, this isn't happening to other cucurbit-types that I planted in the ground (not in containers.) Tubebender, I'm pinging you to this because I consider you a Wise One. Any ideas?

[who knows what evil?]

Outfitting my tomatoes and peppers with scuba tanks this morning; as the 'Stephen King' weather rolls on here at 'Ice Station Zebra'...temps in the low 50's with a persistent mist and 20 MPH winds off the Atlantic.

I have two words for this weather, and they aren't 'Merry Christmas'.

[Hoodat]

Critters are eating my tomatoes off the vine. The affected tomatoes are at ground level and inside cages. They were cut with precision as if someone took a knife and sliced off a slab. There lots of chipmunks and rabbits in my yard. I suspect it is chipmunks since rabbits can't get inside the cages.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I am fixing to go to the nursery to get some blood meal, but we are now hitting a spell of thunderstorms every day (praise God), so I don't know how long the blood meal will last.

Come to find out, chipmunks are a protected species here in Georgia, so I can't shoot them.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

A couple of photos of my tomatoes this morning. They are loaded.

[Ellendra]

Well, I finally got the second garden bed finished and planted! This, in spite of the fact that my shoulder has been acting up enough lately that I've been keeping that arm in a sling part of the time.

I even took pictures!!


The garden bed, after the landscaping fabric was pinned in place, and showing my lovely chalk marks. Each symbol stands for a different type of plant, otherwise I lose my place.


The same bed after being planted. I ran out of the cardboard tubes, so i used paper dixie cups with the bottoms cut off.


The first garden bed, planted a couple of weeks ago. My green beans are trying to outgrow everything.


Here, you can see how the two beds were arranged. The plants with the longest vines are planted at the ends with the arbor, later I'll be putting a shorter trellis that runs the length of each bed, for the melons and tomatoes to grow on.

The stump I innoculated is covered in what I hope is the mycelium of the mushrooms I planted:

I was expecting it to take months to get that far. I'm allergic to mushrooms, but the rest of the family loves them, and they're fun to grow. the purple spots in the picture are colored wax. You're supposed to seal the plug spawn in with parafin, but I didn't feel like dealing with that much hot wax when I was only innoculating one stump, so I dripped wax from a candle instead.

My strawberry garden is finally slowing down to the point where I can almost keep up with it! My shoulder usually starts screaming at me at about a quart and a half of berries. When mom has time she picks the rest of the way, we've been getting around 5 quarts a day for 2 weeks! Some we froze, others I made into strawberry syrup, just right for both pancakes and ice cream. And of course, we've been eating them fresh by the bowlful: