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Post by mogarden on Jun 26, 2013 12:55:37 GMT -6
Thanks, so do I. Don't know what happened to the first planting, something with the roots. Couldn't find the problem so started over with good seed, we'll see.
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Post by w8in4dave on Jun 27, 2013 8:48:37 GMT -6
Good luck Mo
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Post by BestoFour on Jun 27, 2013 17:11:37 GMT -6
Mo, one year I had trouble with my cucumbers and finally figured out the ground was full of rolly polly bugs and instead of acting as earth movers they were eating the roots off my vegetables.
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Post by mogarden on Jun 29, 2013 12:30:53 GMT -6
Here's a "Delicious" tomato getting some size to it, won't be long now. And here a few "Ghost" peppers, more than an inch long. The blackberries will be getting ripe, (I hope) before too much longer. All this waiting and scouting for bugs wouldn't be so bad except for the heat. I can smell that blackberry cobler now....
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Post by w8in4dave on Jun 29, 2013 18:11:48 GMT -6
Very nice!! we had a few ripe red raspberries at home also
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Post by BestoFour on Jun 30, 2013 12:05:18 GMT -6
Looks good. Do you have your blackberries in an area all their own? Ours have taken over the field and a few other areas and now grow wild. I don't know how to contain them.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 1, 2013 2:22:20 GMT -6
Yes, For years I had them trained on 2 wires, like grapes. Now, altho they are in the same place, they're overgrown with weeds. I don't have the energy to do more than just cut off a few poke weeds and things that block the sun. The guy that comes to mow the yard, (they are now surrounded by grass lawn, formerly garden) mows along side the row. GF will probably pick them this year, or some of them at least. Her health is not a lot better than mine as far as doing outside work is concerned. I may pay someone to pull the posts and wire out and mow the plants to the ground after picking them this year.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 1, 2013 2:25:27 GMT -6
I don't mean that I'll kill them off, just mow everything to the ground and start over with the new sprouts off the roots. I'll lose a year's harvest but they'll come back fine. I did that about 5-6 years ago.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jul 1, 2013 3:20:21 GMT -6
I don't mean that I'll kill them off, just mow everything to the ground and start over with the new sprouts off the roots. I'll lose a year's harvest but they'll come back fine. I did that about 5-6 years ago. yep they do come back great..I remember you posting that you had mowed them, and I commented I had before too..love da berries... Heck Sheri...Sell the ones that have escaped!! Nice looking peppers and tomato Mo...we have a few greenies, but only one as large as the one you pictured
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Post by mogarden on Jul 1, 2013 13:39:15 GMT -6
Phil~ I already had tomatoes to eat! OK, they were green ones that I fried. Can't wait for that first (ripe)tomato sandwich, yum! Had to throw away several blossom end rot specimens yesterday. I put the plants out as early as I could. Cool nights at pollination time are supposed to make it worse. They've got lime, etc.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jul 2, 2013 3:07:52 GMT -6
Phil~ I already had tomatoes to eat! OK, they were green ones that I fried. Can't wait for that first (ripe)tomato sandwich, yum! Had to throw away several blossom end rot specimens yesterday. I put the plants out as early as I could. Cool nights at pollination time are supposed to make it worse. They've got lime, etc. here bro I had to use a calcium spray this year to prevent b.e.r. ... with all the rain we have had..it's almost a sure bet we will have a few to toss also...but there are other things that can limit a plant's ability to absorb enough calcium for proper development. soil moisture (too wet or too dry), too much nitrogen, root damage due to cultivation, soil pH (too high or too low)cold soil , salty soil
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Post by mogarden on Jul 9, 2013 1:11:10 GMT -6
Seems like every day I find and kill one of the brown stinkbugs on my yellow squash plants. Few neighbors, (actually only one I know for sure), have a garden so I suppose the stinkbugs just over-winter in the vacant spaces, fence line weeds, etc. I shouldn't complain, as long as I find them or the eggs before they can explode into the zillions. Second planting of zuc got thinned to two plants yesterday, that always hurts but had to be done.
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Post by BestoFour on Jul 9, 2013 9:37:38 GMT -6
The dreaded squash bug.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 9, 2013 12:36:55 GMT -6
When the GF finishes her nap, I'll get a picture of the first "Kellog's Breakfast" tomato ever grown by me. It looked pretty well colored when I pulled it yesterday evening, but I think I'll let the green shoulders mature another day or two.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 10, 2013 3:23:30 GMT -6
It's a little lumpy, lol. Never grew these before so I'm not really sure when it s dead ripe.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jul 10, 2013 4:50:36 GMT -6
It's a little lumpy, lol. Never grew these before so I'm not really sure when it s dead ripe. Looks good Mo..they stay a lil green on top, but when the bottom gives a lil with minimum pressure..it's ready to chomp down on Dang I wish a mator would ripen..we have one that is real close...well..it's about to blush...
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Post by BestoFour on Jul 10, 2013 20:06:16 GMT -6
Oh yummy.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 12, 2013 16:06:19 GMT -6
I chose "Stupice" for an early tomato this year....wish now I'd stayed with "Early Girl". They're hybrid, but throw a bunch of two to three inch tomatoes for most of the season. So far the Stupice has not impressed me much. There's been a few but I think it's over-hyped. Here's a "Delicious" that MAY have an edible bit down in the center somewhere....talk about yer homely tomato, well here's one!
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Post by BestoFour on Jul 12, 2013 16:47:04 GMT -6
That is one pitiful looking tomato. Does it taste good?
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Post by mogarden on Jul 13, 2013 3:15:08 GMT -6
As you can see, it's just blushing red a little. I picked it to lighten the load on that one vine tip, assuming it will help the normal ones that are left on. "Delicious" and "German are my 2 late tomatoes.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jul 14, 2013 5:45:25 GMT -6
That is one pitiful looking tomato. Does it taste good? seems I recollect raising Stupice once...quite some years back...and they are a good tasting tomato.. but, on the appearance of this one..or any tomato variety... I always found a tomato like this...akin to a fatty cut of meat.. It may take a lil pickin' around to get the goodie...but the goodie be GREAT ! Hope you enjoyed Mo
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Post by jerseycub on Jul 18, 2013 7:19:21 GMT -6
I chose "Stupice" for an early tomato this year....wish now I'd stayed with "Early Girl". They're hybrid, but throw a bunch of two to three inch tomatoes for most of the season. So far the Stupice has not impressed me much. There's been a few but I think it's over-hyped. Here's a "Delicious" that MAY have an edible bit down in the center somewhere....talk about yer homely tomato, well here's one! Honestly I have grown Stupice before and they never looked like that...they were small and smooth skinned, a little larger then a golf ball.They were very productive and good for mixing with other verities for tomato sauce. Me thinks someone mad a mistake labeling the seeds.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 19, 2013 3:19:00 GMT -6
OK, just before the picture, I wrote "here's a 'Delicious'...."The picture is of a DELICIOUS tomato....gone ugly, LOL. The comment about Stupice was a general complaint about their earliness vs Early Girl. I didn't find them to be all that early. It's no matter now, there's tomatoes coming out my ears now. Had 4 too many yellow squash so froze a bag of them sliced yesterday. Those 2 plants are really showing off now. Hope the zucs will do as well here in a few weeks.
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Post by jerseycub on Jul 19, 2013 7:37:25 GMT -6
My fault for not reading back to see all of the conversation. Well how is the weather there MO? If it's anything like here then it is hot as heck, today we are expecting temps to be over 100° It's 84° now and climbing fast. Not good for bell peppers.
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Post by BestoFour on Jul 19, 2013 17:38:41 GMT -6
mogarden, I thought you were being sarcastic with that "delicious". I was making a joke with my "does it taste good". Sometimes being pretty isn't the most important thing.
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Post by mogarden on Jul 23, 2013 3:04:35 GMT -6
I did finally slice the ugly one. No better on the inside. It seems like now I'm getting more Kellog's Breakfast (the yellow ones) than all the reds combined. Odly enough the weather here has been typical for July; hot and humid. This past 2 days have been rainy, go phigger. LOL
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Post by mogarden on Jul 28, 2013 5:36:26 GMT -6
57 degrees here this A.M., wow. Cold spell in July. My tomatoes are ripening the first flush, still blooming and setting a few since the nights are not as hot as usual this year. I have had several 'mater sammiches...which is what I was hoping to stick around to see. I sincerely hope everyone has a good finish to this gardening year, it's been a good one so far.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jul 28, 2013 6:21:50 GMT -6
57 degrees here this A.M., wow. Cold spell in July. My tomatoes are ripening the first flush, still blooming and setting a few since the nights are not as hot as usual this year. I have had several 'mater sammiches...which is what I was hoping to stick around to see. I sincerely hope everyone has a good finish to this gardening year, it's been a good one so far. 57° Dat's a FREAKIN HEAT WAVE... 45.2° here at 6:15 when I got outa da sack...too cool for this ol pheller...Umm, mator sammies sound GREAT...need one of these mators to blush..(just starting)
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Post by w8in4dave on Jul 30, 2013 10:07:28 GMT -6
Some nice veggies and fruit there Mo
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Post by mogarden on Aug 12, 2013 13:27:57 GMT -6
Thank you both. Happy gardening!
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