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WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 34 AUGUST 23, 2013
Free Republic | 8/23/2013 | greeneyes

Posted on 08/23/2013 1:53:26 PM PDT by greeneyes

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To: Sarajevo

“”Viagra from Canada” ads can get annoying after awhile............”

Unless you are a guy who needs it. :o)

If you get emails from companies you don’t want, do a right click on it and see if you can label it as always junk mail and it will go in your mail delete folder from then on instead of your in box.


221 posted on 08/26/2013 3:18:04 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: TEXOKIE

“At that time I gave the bore-holes some big squirts of neem oil, and that seems to have controlled them in those plants.”

I have two spray bottles with the Neem oil combined with two other organic compounds for other nasty stuff, and it stopped something from making holes in my sweet potato leaves in the ten gallon grow bag. Those holes appeared at least a month ago, and I doused the leaves over and under and the plant, too, for three days and that stopped whatever it was.


222 posted on 08/26/2013 3:31:27 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: murrie; rightly_dividing
“I sure enjoy reading about your gardening adventures. Thx for sharing.”

I've had a lot of mistakes going through this mine field of growing food plants. I have squirrels and birds and insects on my hate list - the murderers. Plants are living things and they murder them. When people on here talk about letting the rest of, or some of, the crop die, I feel like saying a prayer. :o) I'm trying to get over the death of my two squash plants by borers and three Sunflower small plants that something ate. And, my small lettuce was eaten and all the lettuce seed was eaten.

You see, no one told me I would be at war growing food plants. I know it now, and have gradually developed a war plan. Onward Christian Soldiers.

223 posted on 08/26/2013 3:44:23 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: murrie; JRandomFreeper

Johnny is the resident authority on Romas. Johnny could you speak to her about the Romas?


224 posted on 08/26/2013 3:47:44 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: murrie
I don't prune my Romas. I have tried that in the past, and not seen any difference.

Romas should be a standard size, slightly larger than a hen's egg. If they are small, it may be due to weather or soil. I fertilize mine with about 6" of compost in the bottom of the hole when I plant them.

The problem could also be with sub-standard seeds. Who's seeds did you use?

/johnny

225 posted on 08/26/2013 3:52:15 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Marcella

Gardening is a war, often against unknown enemies. You are blessed if you win.


226 posted on 08/26/2013 3:56:47 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: rightly_dividing
After I read what you posted, I ran through Sun Tzu's Art of War in my head, and LOLed at how much of it applied to gardening.

/johnny

227 posted on 08/26/2013 4:09:15 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Hi Johnny. Some were plants purchased at Home Depot -just labeled as “Roma’s”. A few others were seedlings given to me by a fellow gardener at work.

Is there a special variety that you grow?


228 posted on 08/26/2013 4:09:18 PM PDT by murrie (Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
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To: murrie
I generally save seed from year to year, and start from seed. Some seed growers don't use the best seed. They also mis-label plants sometimes.

I'd pick a reputable seed dealer and start them from seed.

/johnny

229 posted on 08/26/2013 4:16:54 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You are prolly correct. Will do. I’ve always thought Roma’s were supposed to be 4-8 inches long. The ones I have are cherry tomato size.


230 posted on 08/26/2013 4:26:14 PM PDT by murrie (Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
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To: murrie
They should be larger than a hen's egg. Ever notice how standard the ones in the grocery store are? Almost all the same size?

/johnny

231 posted on 08/26/2013 4:35:18 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m sorry Johnny. I have no idea how big a hens egg is-I’ve never had the privilege of being around hens. Maybe someday.


232 posted on 08/26/2013 4:46:06 PM PDT by murrie (Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
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To: murrie; JRandomFreeper
I’ve never had the privilege of being around hens

Hen's egg = grocery store egg, Large AA.

I have some old cookbooks that routinely instruct to cream/melt/add etc. "a piece of butter the size of a hen's egg...". Some of the other "measurements" used are even more wonky.

233 posted on 08/26/2013 5:13:05 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Marcella

I’ve been very impressed with neem for running off bugs. I tell you what, when I applied it the first time to the squash plant, you should have seen those squash bugs (we called them “stink bugs” when I was a kid) SCURRY! They couldn’t get away fast enough! Those that were directly squirted on were incapacitated to the point that they could be picked off and stomped.

Darlin just came in with the report that the bug spray has been applied to the area around the pots to beat back the grasshoppers.


234 posted on 08/26/2013 5:13:42 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: murrie
Sorry, that's an automatic usage, because sometimes I get duck eggs, and they are larger. And richer, and tastier.

Regular old chicken egg, Grade A, X-large, roughly 2 oz. ;)

/johnny

235 posted on 08/26/2013 5:15:44 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Are you calling me archaic.... ;)

Sometimes I do live like it's the late 1800s, I confess.

/johnny

236 posted on 08/26/2013 5:16:54 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Cool. Thx. I tried several heirloom type Roma/paste varieties this year ( one was labeled “Amish paste”). Totally eaten up with blight and fungus. Sad. Tennessee can really grow the tomato nasties down here.
Thanks for the advice. Will do the seed route next year.


237 posted on 08/26/2013 5:25:39 PM PDT by murrie (Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Ha! Indeed! I’ll never forget my dear mother. She knows everything. A friend had an old recipe that called for a “gurgle” of some liquid and didn’t know what that meant. My mom piped up right quick “but of course that is a quarter cup”. Amazing lady.


238 posted on 08/26/2013 5:29:45 PM PDT by murrie (Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

No; never: just pointing out how far away from the farm we’ve traveled of the last century; and how much more convenient it is for cooks, since Ms. Farmer standardized kitchen measurements.


239 posted on 08/26/2013 5:30:40 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: murrie

As I recall, the Old Testament Hebrews had a liquid measure that was pronounced sort like a ‘glugging’ sound, and was more or less the amount of oil that went, “glug” as it was poured out of a storage jug.


240 posted on 08/26/2013 5:42:12 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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