2022 Gardening Thread

[popsgarland]

I'm trying for some tomatoes but not having much luck. As you can see by my picture.

 

[2ManyGuns]

Picking Yellow Wax Beans!!

 

[Younggun]

Spent yesterday evening pulling bull nettle out of the corn. Will be back at it again this evening.


Apparently it’s been lurking and waiting for a freshly filled surface to attack. Hate that crap.

 

[Axxe55]

My potato plants are up to about 4" tall now. tomato and pepper plants are blooming!

 

[c.tiberius]

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[baboon]

I'm trying for some tomatoes but not having much luck. As you can see by my picture.



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I'm trying for some tomatoes but not having much luck. As you can see by my picture.



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Should have harvested on 4/20

 

[Axxe55]

Did some transplanting this afternoon. Forgot to label the containers, so it's going to be a surprise!

 

[Axxe55]

One of my tomato plants has five small tomatoes on it this morning!

 

[BuzzinSATX]

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Nice garden!

How is that G20 treating you?

 

[c.tiberius]

Nice garden!

How is that G20 treating you?

ha, love it, i found a good load for it and I’ve been shooting it a lot.
Back on thread, this garden is taken care of both me and my father in law, couple of hours every day ,
It’s been good until now but in the last 2-3 days the mosquitos are getting on my nerves.


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[Axxe55]

Decided to try out some Miracle-Gro fertilizer this year on my garden plants. Just mixed up it with the water and poured it onto the soil. Easy peasy!

 

[Riksors]

Flowers are starting to bloom on my tomato plant.

 

[FNORD]

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.

I have only recently been acquainted with Graze On.

Mightn’t that be related?

 

[FNORD]

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

If contamination has occurred it takes years for Graze On to dissipate.

Nasty stuff that.

 

[FNORD]

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!

Do you remove stems besides the suckers?

 

[FNORD]

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

Heirlooms.

Has anyone tried Winsall tomatoes?

We grew them in Beaumont gumbo that makes Houston gumbo look like loam. The soil was augmented with sand and manure.

The largest were 3 pounders but mostly 1-2 pounders.

They were delicious and my favorite of the 5-7 varieties we grew.

 

[glenbo]

What are suckers?

 

[FNORD]

What are suckers?

I don’t know the proper name for them but they are the small branches that grow/sprout from the axil or top of the junction of branch and stem.

They provide nothing but rob energy from tomato production.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Decided to try out some Miracle-Gro fertilizer this year on my garden plants. Just mixed up it with the water and poured it onto the soil. Easy peasy!

I know a lot of folks use chemical fertilizer but I’d advise against it long term. It is very hard on your soil and while it will feed your plants, it will wreak havoc on the ground.

Look at the organic options like compost or products from Medina or Fox Farm. Both companies make excellent stuff.

And if you really want good plants, fish compost, bat guano and worm castings can’t be beat! And sprinkle
Epsom salt around the tomatoes once they are established.

 

[Axxe55]

I know a lot of folks use chemical fertilizer but I’d advise against it long term. It is very hard on your soil and while it will feed your plants, it will wreak havoc on the ground.

Look at the organic options like compost or products from Medina or Fox Farm. Both companies make excellent stuff.

And if you really want good plants, fish compost, bat guano and worm castings can’t be beat! And sprinkle
Epsom salt around the tomatoes once they are established.

Upside is, most all of my garden vegetables are in containers.