2022 Gardening Thread

[BuzzinSATX]

So with two new grandkids this year, I’m behind the times. The most impressive plant in my garden is gold potatoes I planted a couple months ago from some old potatoes in my cupboard.

Got some radishes ready to pick. Some cucumbers and beans just coming up. Tomatoes and peppers are slow but progressing.

I also have carrot seeds I threw in just for cover and will see how they do. I usually plant carrots as a cover plant over the winter but didn’t do that this year.

Aquaponic beds are same hodgepodge as raised beds. Got beets started. Grew greens through the winter but will plant other stuff soon. Got a lone tomato started.

Not pretty but it’ll eat.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Nope. Nothing but hay and cow manure that had been piled up for the last 6 months.

Daily watering keeps them hanging on, but it the soil dries at all they immediately start to curl. Lost one of the 6 early on. Got another that is really borderline, and the last 4 look bad but the lower leaves hold a healthy appearance as long as they remain constantly watered.

Only other idea is that they were diseased when purchased.

Also, no herbicides have been used that could have washed or been carried to them.

Heirlooms or hybrid tomato’s? I’ve had mixed success with heirlooms.

 

[Younggun]

Heirlooms or hybrid tomato’s? I’ve had mixed success with heirlooms.

Heirlooms.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Pics from today….like I said…I’m half adding it this year…

 

[BuzzinSATX]

A few more pics. Koi are my Aquaponics farmers…

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Heirlooms.

Heirlooms are wonderful to eat but can be tough to grow…mix in some hybrid varieties and I think it will help your success.

Hybrids are not GMO’s.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

I’ll give you guys one to look for and plant…Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry Tomato

I sometimes find them at Lowes or Home Depot. If you find them, BUY a couple and try them. They are excellent eating tomatoes!

I also like black cherry tomatoes and regular red 100’s, but these yellow babies are a treat!

Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry Tomato (2 Pack)

Although called yellow cherry, these little tomatoes are orange at their peak, making almost more bite-sized bursts of sweetness than you can imagine on each plant. A single healthy plant is capable of producing hundreds. Several years ago, Sun Sugar was named by Sunset magazine as the best...

bonnieplants.com

 

[Axxe55]

I’ll give you guys one to look for and plant…Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry Tomato

I sometimes find them at Lowes or Home Depot. If you find them, BUY a couple and try them. They are excellent eating tomatoes!

I also like black cherry tomatoes and regular red 100’s, but these yellow babies are a treat!

Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry Tomato (2 Pack)

Although called yellow cherry, these little tomatoes are orange at their peak, making almost more bite-sized bursts of sweetness than you can imagine on each plant. A single healthy plant is capable of producing hundreds. Several years ago, Sun Sugar was named by Sunset magazine as the best...

bonnieplants.com

Thanks for the tip!

 

[2ManyGuns]

Nope. Nothing but hay and cow manure that had been piled up for the last 6 months.

Daily watering keeps them hanging on, but it the soil dries at all they immediately start to curl. Lost one of the 6 early on. Got another that is really borderline, and the last 4 look bad but the lower leaves hold a healthy appearance as long as they remain constantly watered.

Only other idea is that they were diseased when purchased.

Also, no herbicides have been used that could have washed or been carried to them.

Where did you get the hay or manure? Did you purchase it from someone who uses grazon, this can remain in the hay or manure for YEARS!

 

[Axxe55]

Nope. Nothing but hay and cow manure that had been piled up for the last 6 months.

Daily watering keeps them hanging on, but it the soil dries at all they immediately start to curl. Lost one of the 6 early on. Got another that is really borderline, and the last 4 look bad but the lower leaves hold a healthy appearance as long as they remain constantly watered.

Only other idea is that they were diseased when purchased.

Also, no herbicides have been used that could have washed or been carried to them.

Have you thought about transplanting them to some different soil, or even some potting soil?

 

[Younggun]

Where did you get the hay or manure? Did you purchase it from someone who uses grazon, this can remain in the hay or manure for YEARS!

No idea if they did or now. Does t seemed to have harmed anything else though.

Edit: Did some reading and this is probably the cause. Pastures get treated with Grazon, and the manure gets mixed with the hay.

Most of the garden seems fine, but I went really heavy on the small strip where the tomato’s are planted.

 

[Younggun]

Have you thought about transplanting them to some different soil, or even some potting soil?

Guess I could, but I may just replace them. Idk. If I have to get posts they cost as much or more than replacing the plants, lol.

Might be able find an open spot in the garden, but then I’d rather keep any possibly bad soil away from everything else anyways. Might throw them in to some cut in half milk jugs or something and see what happens.

 

[2ManyGuns]

Try moving them to a different location first, if they are sticking above ground 6-8 inches now, clip off the lower leaves, plant about 4 inches deeper, the little "hairs" on the stalk will become new roots if they survive. ALSO, once your plants become 2 ft. tall or so, and you began to prune them, take some of the longer trimmings, remove at least 4 inches of the leaves for a clean stem, dig a small hole to plant these trimmed pieces in. Water well, you should get new plants from these stems to create FREE plants and extend your harvest. I've had a 90% success rate with this method!!

 

[OutlawStar]

Hey guys! Got a few plant questions and a little show-off. Can someone Identify these 2 plants? First one has a pleasant smell when you rub your fingers on it, almost like sage but it isn't fuzzy like sage. Eventually gets little blue-purple flowers on it. Its just a little bush but I got a little excited with the hedge trimmer and made it really small.

 

[OutlawStar]

Second, I've forgotten where I tossed some of the seeds in my raised bed, and not sure what this is, no smell, not sure if its grass or some sort of useful plant I want.

 

[OutlawStar]

Thirdly, what is eating my tomato seedlings? I'm seeing a couple holes in my sunflower leaves, the green bean sprouts would shoot 2 leaves off, then next day its just a green stem where something ate the leaves. But only 1 of the 2 types of tomato plans end up like this, sprout comes up, leaves shoot out, then they're nibbled away. Other plants seem to be doing generally okay. I've killed at least 2 field mice this spring and my chives have stopped disappearing just above the dirt too.

 

[OutlawStar]

Lastly, a little show-off. From left to right: Leaf lettuce, honey dew melon, cucumber, green peas, regular tomatoes (left cage) roma tomatoes (right cage and sickly above), mystery plant (above), spring onions that are now gigantic (what do i do with this huge onion plant???), 4 garlics, 2 different kinds of corn, chives, and far right is jalapenos, habaneros, and cayenne peppers.

I thought it was a rabbit eating the sprouts as I saw one hanging around the side of my house, hence the rabbit fence. But mice were squished in the trap.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Bugs, probably slugs, eating the plants.

 

[2ManyGuns]

Put a 16P nail at the base of the plants, some "cutworms" circle around the plant, and then eat around the stem. The nail can prevent them from completing their "grasp" on the stem, this can save your plants.

 

[Axxe55]

I got onions and potatoes sprouting!