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I am familiar with the injecting method when you see squash vine borers, but do people coat their stems via a spray as well?
Or do you inject preventively as well? Even if you don’t see evidence of squash vine borers you just inject the main vine?
What are all your methods with using BT on your pumpkins.
Golden zucchini x2: check.
😳 I don’t recall planting scrotum zucchini.
I got these lovely peppers from my local glee market in Rosarito, but the seller had no clue what they were called, yet another reason to give them a new home!
I am fairly new to gardening and was hoping to see if anybody could identify the species to properly care after them! 🌻🖤
I had two broccoli plants that I couldn’t fit under the row covers, but it made an interesting experiment to see what happened to those two plants versus the ones under the row covers. Needless to say, row covers of the way to go.
What is destroying my cabbage? How do I treat it?
We planted our first vegetable garden a few weeks ago and have started growing peppers, but each one so far has had these brown lines or spots. The plant itself looks healthy and happy other than some bite marks out of the leaves. There are no visible bugs on the plant. What could be causing these two issues, either together or separately?
We are in south central PA and it’s been 96-103 degrees the past several days, but we’ve been monitoring and watering (I think) appropriately.
I moved into this place a few years ago with a garden space that had been unused for several years. The first year I barely had time to clear some of the space enough to grow a few things. The 2nd year I added a load of free compost/mulch from the city landfill while also adding a few bags of composted manure. I've added some, maybe not a lot of fertilizer and more mulch and manure since, but I'm realizing that, while some things have done well, most of my garden simply hasn't produced like it should.
So, what am I not doing that I should to ensure I'm not wasting my time and money? Well, not wasted, but certainly not having the success I've had in other spaces. For one, my battle with thistles takes far too much of my time, but what else? Plant a cover crop this fall and add a significant amount of good soil in the spring? Find a good amount of aged manure? How do people test their soil to see what nutrients are missing?
My garden is growing very well for the most part but I think I need to add some phosphorus, at least to my strawberry plants. They are either not producing any fruit at all or they are producing small funky looking berries. They have healthy leaf growth. Only two plants are producing any berries at all.
Everything i see online says they need phosphorus for more blooms and berries.
I think my soil is very healthy, I added plenty of compost at the beginning of the year, and the growth in all my beds is strong. My tomato plants are doing very well growing in the same soil and have tons of tomatoes on them.
Should I add phosphorus and if so, should I add a more rounded out fertilizer like a 4-6-2 or 2-5-3 blend or should I just add rock phosphate 0-3-0?
I don't want to add more nitrogen if I don't need it or if it will hurt my soul either this year or next, but I also don't want to add too much phosphorus and have unhealthy runoff (I live near a forest with a stream and I don't want to poison it by accident). I have had very good luck just composting all year and adding it the next, and I would rather be patient versus fuck up my soil trying to get fast results.
But if I could get some more strawberries on my plants, I would be very happy (and so would my kids who are eating me out of house and home with their berry addiction).
After a couple of underwhelming years on my veggie patch, I've had my soil tested and found that it's very deficient in phosphorus. A quick Google tells me that blood/bonemeal is an easy way to remedy this. However, I already tried this a couple of years ago and unfortunately my neighbour's cat found it absolutely DELICIOUS, to the extent that she was literally eating the soil and even covering everything in chicken wire couldn't stop her.
So, any alternatives that do the same job but a) are still safe to put on soil where edible plants grow and b) won't encourage cats to make a mess?
First time growing in living soil, plants are doing well but have some ants, a little Vaseline around the rim should stop them from crossing.
Additional info: they appear to jump quite frequently. I'm not sure if this is an identifiable behaviour?
This pest arrived on kale plants gifted to us. I did notice a few when they arrived and told my boss we should quarantine it but he said not to worry however they are now ALL OVER THE ENTIRE CROP!!
today I have unleashed my ladybird army against them and have about 2-3 per plant but I'm struggling to ID them. Any help with management would be great!!
Hii everyone!! I've recently transitioned into gardening work & help run a kitchen garden but I'm still learning!! It's very important to me that I don't use chemicals as I care greatly for the environment however my boss is very eager to just whip out the spray.
Edit: me again!! I just cut all the main outer affected leaves off
These cabbage seed weevils are living up to their name and making themselves very known around my cabbage plants. I would like to remove them in a environmentally conscious way IF they will be a nuisance? any help would be much appreciated ^_^
I almost feel bad wiping them out as weevils hold a special place in my heart for looking so distinguished but they're eating my cabbage!!
Little update on the mountain garden, sadly the other day wild goats jumped the fence and ate my vegetables including the tips of the plants, the only thing they didn't touch was my tomatoes and cannabis plants, the rest I will have to replant from seedling again. Other than that the plants love the summer heat, if you want to know how I prepare the soil and get it ready for the season without fertilizer you can find that on my YouTube channel 🙏🏻🙌🏻
Hey there!
I put in raised beds this year, filled each with 6in of year old mulch and then 12in of a soil/compost mix. I went for the inter planting technique and admittedly might’ve crowded everything in this first bed, which leads me to my question…
Does this look like bacterial leaf spot to you, or something else? It’s on all of my 4 pole bean plants, which I have trellised along the 4ft long edge of the bed. It’s also possible I’ve over-watered them, as it’s been a big rainy here as of late. Zone 7b.
I’m a first time gardener dealing with an aphid infestation. I’ve seen people say Castile soap can be used to treat them, but I already have this mild dish soap I use for my wooden cutting board. Could it also be used as a treatment for aphids?
On my pear tree (assuming conference pear) I have these black spots and scale over the leaves? Can anyone help ^_^?
North central Florida, zone 9a. Should I throw in the towel for my raised bed kitchen garden? I am growing cucumbers, crookneck squash, watermelon, okra, tomatoes. I have planted lots of marigolds, some rosemary, basil, and mint as companion plants.
My watermelon was so heavily infested with white fly eggs and nymphs, I just pulled it and threw it out. My squash and cucumber leaves are also pretty heavily infested with white flies and squash bugs. I sprayed them yesterday evening with insecticidal soap. I also put out some yellow sticky traps this morning (which have caught a lot of flies), but I have also caught a few baby lizards (which I released using vegetable oil). I’ve also got neem oil and DE (I have not used either yet, I don’t want to harm lady bugs).
Anyone here have success with kitchen gardens during the summer in areas with high heat and humidity? I’m reading online that most gardeners don’t garden during the summer months here because of the high pest pressure.
It all started with few seeds by my wife and daughter and we got to eat like 4 and more on the way 😍