I'm just looking at my pots, that have soil but are just sprouting weeds, and getting soaked in rain.
What should I be doing to help replenish the soil?
I somewhat understand that farmers rotate crops, plant differently or burn fields to help with nitrogen(?), but i have two halves of a plastic 55 Gal. drum full of soil from SVB destroyed Squash(skipping next year) and Improperly Handled/Grown Tomatoes (my fault, 1st time).
I PRAY that someone just threw all these cards out of their car because they sucked....this is only what I could grab. Luckily its residential, and 2am. But that makes me think maybe someone lost this, because i found a little drawstring backpack with more MTG Cards. Found a Gandalf!
I DO NOT play, or have MTGTC, or have any problem with them...but what the heck do I do??
I now use an Electric Ryobi Weed Eater, I buy the Pre-Cut Line, was wondering if anyone soaks these?? We used to soak the Big Spool at the beginning of summer, but that was 20 years ago with gas trimmers!
I admit, I did find this at Home Depot and its still in the plastic pot.
It has fallen over multiple times so it's lost some of what soil was inside.
I've had it sitting in complete Summer Sun, other than rain showers when I'm at work. It's started blooming from every branch, but as that has happened many leaves began having brown spots and yellowing, and some deformed leaves.
I suppose this may be normal, I'm just wondering if there's anything else I should do before re potting and winter time.
Seriously, does everyone come here to cry about what they miss? Dude, enjoy that we still get media like this. Hate all you want, they moved the needle and that's gonna ruffle feathers along the way. Do I enjoy EVERYTHING, nah, but its not specifically laid out just for me to enjoy, its a wide audience. There's all the old episodes on YouTube if you need a dose of Nostalgia.
I've been adding leaves, which I've run out of now that it's PEAK summer.
Cut up fruits, rinds, squash leaves, (lil bit) spent charcoal and Bags of Lawn Clippings.
I've mixed the pile with a blue handled tiller thing ONCE, then added a bucket of food scraps that was overturned sitting on grass, mixed with those big ass grubs. (Fly larvae?)
Some piss, rain and covered with election signs someone was throwing away, a heavy sheet.(lighter than a painters drop cloth) are on top.
I don't do ratios, my mind can't. I add a five gallon buckets worth of food scraps, and cover with grass clipping every 3 weeks or so.
Anything I might add? I don't have a thermometer.
I'm not trying to RUSH Mother Nature's Process, just seeking things to add to enhance the final product.
Pounded the four corners in, added cross beams for support when it rains (it POURS!), then Opposing Cross braces on two sides as well as one on the top to separate the 3 Stems of the Beefsteak variety. Small tomatoes have ripened, small....I fear its because I let it grow 3 main stems. Never grown this kind of Tomato before.
I find it so hard to keep having faith in this plant.
I'm MORE than certain I could have planted more squash around to give it a chance to pollinate. (Plenty Male Flowers, the Females popped up, no flowers ever opened, unpollinated fruit shriveled and fell off)
I thought my soil was fine, perhaps not well draining enough? (I didn't add any perlite, just bagged Outdoor Raised Bed Mix (Kellog and M-G).)
I waited to long to Prune? NEVER knew about the eggs on the Stalks.
So now, I've been gutting the stalk of every single grub I can, at night.
I KNOW and have read about BT, but I'm not getting a syringe to inject a plant at this point.
I'm just gonna chalk it up as an 'L' and hope for better luck next year.
Gave it a friend, so it wouldn't suffer alone.
I just purchased a desert rose plant, I hadn't planned to but, I LOVE the flowers. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for Books or Reading Materials about Adenium growing. I honestly didn't know it is a succulent? Could be wrong!
So now, I would like to repot and begin our journey together. Which will inevitably lead to numerous questions. I'm old I guess, I prefer physical copies for longer, pick up/put down reading.
Opened a carton of eggs, found this full shelled egg, inside another full shell. Nothing sticky in the carton either...
I've gotten Double Yolks, but never have seen this.
I just purchased a desert rose plant, I hadn't planned to but, I LOVE the flowers. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for Books or Reading Materials about Adenium growing. I honestly didn't know it is a succulent? Could be wrong!
So now, I would like to repot and begin our journey together. Which will inevitably lead to numerous questions. I'm old I guess, I prefer physical copies for longer, pick up/put down reading.
Found on my Basil. SOUTH CAROLINA. Zone 9a.
There were holes on leaves, I just happened to cut a piece, so it gets bushier and noticed this guy...i hope its not bad.
Crooked Neck Yellow Squash.
Recently started to fruit, near the top. I haven't cut anything off, flowers just kinda fall off into the pot. It is tied up, but leaves aren't bundled.
Zone 9A.
Trying to give them a better home, please, dont judge. 1st Timer.
They have been in One Pot, THAT pot, for a while. With Summer bearing its fangs, I've got to move them under the back awning, and decided its time to move homes also, into a 5GAL Stack, for now.
I've separated piles, and also trying to separate asian jumpers.
Any suggestions, as always are welcome, slight humor doesn't hurt either!😝
I couldn't find an answer, so I'm asking the Kingdom of Reddit!!
Am I correct in thinking, you gain more points from (5) Level 26-30 attack on BEASTS than you do from a Terror Rally...?
My alliance mates always load the terror rallies up, but I'm under the impression, you can get more points, AND save on Ham...going with BEAST.
It never crossed my mind as I added food scraps, and checked moisture levels to my Large Pot of worms, that I could have ASJ. I've seen them my whole life, dug many deep holes, yardwork etc., never knew they were any different than a worm. (Worms a worm, yaknow? 15 Yr. OLD me)
Never thought about them until today when I gave a good hand mix of the Bucket O' Wormies, and to my dismay yet accepting the problem at hand...many jumpy guys, stuck to the plastic soil bag that covers it.
I've read that its pretty much hand pick and get rid of them, so luckily I haven't gotten an ACTUAL worm tower.
I would really like a LEGIT place to acquire a beginning supply of Red Wrigglers, because I think I will just begin again with a proper Worm Tower and placement in my backyard.
As always, suggestions for a first time Vermicomposter is always helpful...I've got a covered 5 Gal Bucket, with rotting food scraps, shredded paper, and a bit of used charcoal, could this be a good beginning step??
So, my Crooked Neck Squash is growing quite well (vertically!) in half of a plastic barrel, it was never fully loaded with soil, so as time has passed, it has settled well.
but i was wondering if I could/should add a bag of Outdoor Container soil to it, as well as my potted tomatoes?
Lizard Friend was doing some digging in my potted plant, are they just eating ants and small critters? He wasn't heavily disturbing anything, it was cute to see he's little arm pushing dirt out of his way!
Is this little fella on my tomato plant a helper or a nemesis?