Today’s Garden Harvest
Today we had the largest harvest yet of cucumbers and a few more PEPH peas. Also, two new vegetables–corn and the first okra pods.
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Squash “treated” for Chaonephora fruit rot
We have found a few about 2″ long yellow squash that was covered with a fuzzy blackish grey fungus and that was totally rotten. The quote below and links clearly identify it as Chaonephora fruit rot and those and other advice says there is no treatment other than to open up the leaf canopy. We […]
Continue ReadingPlumbagos & Hydrogen Peroxide
The remaining two blue plumbagos–bought late last year at Mobile Botanical Gardens fall sale–are trying to die like the other two. I sprayed them last week with Sevin in case the problem was a pest. They seemed to look some better but still no new growth and a lot of dead near the base. Sounds […]
Continue ReadingFilled in “African” Okra
Had maybe fifteen seeds left so soaked them overnight in water. Planted them in the gaps where the first planting did not germinate. Only about 30% of those seeds germinated and are about 2″ tall with two permanent leaves. I did not soak them first and likely soaked the ones planted today too long.
Continue ReadingSprayed Daylilies for Rust & Frescati for aphids with Dawn Ultra
Following the advice of many, I tried for the first time spraying 1% Dawn Ultra and water. The 1% mix value came from page 51 of the . The pdf is saved locally. Note they had the best results with this as opposed to a long list of the often recommended fungicides. To 2 gallons […]
Continue ReadingTransplanted Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes
A month or so ago Mary planted the last of the Mortgage Lifter seeds in some 2″ seedling squares. They have far outgrown the little pots. Perhaps due to our neglect other than watering them and leaving them outside. They are 12-14″ high with white nodules on the stalks where roots are trying to form […]
Continue ReadingSprayed tomatoes with new Sevin
Found a 1/2″ green worm, likely a cabbage looper, in a small green tomato on the northmost vine in the last row (18) and the one next to it had blossom end rot. Most of the leaves were full of holes. Found some holes in many leaves on the other vines. Sprayed all tomatoes with […]
Continue ReadingAdded white plumbagos where blues died
About 6/6/2019 – Bought from Ted & Nancy’s Fruit Stand, on Three-Notch, two 3-gallon white plumbagos to replace two of the blue ones that died mysteriously. On a page about plumbago’s the writer said there is a white variety know as Alba. The tag on the two we bought did not call it that.
Continue ReadingGarlic Harvested
There has been about three weeks since I tested a garlic bulb to see if the divisions between the tows had turned dark–and it had not. Checked again last week and still creamy white flesh with a very mild garlic smell. All leaves are now dead and lying on the ground largely due to the […]
Continue ReadingTied up the indeterminate tomatoes
Row 15 has six Amelia bush tomatoes that have small green tomatoes but have blown over, lying on their branches on one side. Installed three T-posts and the hi-tensile wire then tied each with two strings. Most have more than two main vines so the larger two were supported.
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