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Backyard Vegetable Gardening & Livestock Raising & Sustainable Living

iheartthisthread said:
my mother uses copper fungicide for powdery mildew. I`m not sure for roses though.
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says copper fungicide works for:

Controls leaf spots, rusts and blights on vegetables, ornamentals, fruits and nuts
Controls Spanish moss in oaks
Controls algae on turf grass

i would just try something less extreme than that before turning to super chemicals.
 
Yeah, I just pruned it back to let the air circulate and sprayed with a white vinegar/ water spray. It is due to the dry hot days followed by the cold night we are having here at the moment. I simply watered them too late in the day and didn't give the leaves a chance to dry before dusk and the spores love those type of conditions. I am not adverse to nuking my plants with chemicals but I am too lazy to hit the shops and tend to go organic if I can from my pantry.

I love gardening in the subtropics. Our winter is about 6 weeks at the most and i can usually grow any thing any time of the year
 
we moved the coop around yesterday. the chickens spend all day destroying the ground under them, so why not put them to work? we put grass seed down where they had already eaten/destroyed everything, and hopefully will just keep moving it around until they've ruined the kudzu that comes back every year with such ferocity.

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Kenickie said:
we moved the coop around yesterday. the chickens spend all day destroying the ground under them, so why not put them to work? we put grass seed down where they had already eaten/destroyed everything, and hopefully will just keep moving it around until they've ruined the kudzu that comes back every year with such ferocity.

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That's awesome, i want to have chickens one day. I do a lot of baking and definitely could use the free eggs.

I want to get one of these guys just for the funny hairstyle, they are supposedly very affectionate and decent layers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLoB3dhodY

I can't stop laughing when i see these, they are the best ever.

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ken, yea....we can do a swap anytime.

we picked another clump of oysters two days ago. there really isn't any way of knowing when we'll have them and when we won't. it's pretty fly by the seat of our pants.

since we were so late planting everything, we don't have any veggies yet. our cherry tomatos should be ready soon, but it'll probably be a month before the rest of the stuff starts producing.

herbs are doing great though. i chopped up some basil, mint and parsley and put it in an avacado, tomato and onion salad last night. it was good as fuck.
 
Well today was my day off so of course I spent the whole day moving mulch from the park near our house to a pile in our yard. We now have enough mulch to cover our entire backyard, which hopefully will suffocate the yard weeds. It was like four pickup trucks worth, and now I am so tired I'm just about fucking cross eyed, but hopefully this is enough for the rest of the season.
 
we're going to have our friend from Athens who makes pickles and stuff come over and teach us how to pickle them, because all those okra were picked last night, and we spent all day out there today and already have that amount to pick again. we're barely staying out in front of them, and on top of that we've got all these fucking greens we pick and can't eat fast enough. anyway. today we took all that mulch that I got and mulched between the beds.

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this picture is from our deck so it kind of doesn't look like much, but we did between all the beds (5 of them!) so that we don't have to weed between them anymore. NOW we just have to deal with everything to the right of the last beds, which has to be mowed, and then leveled, and then mulched or more beds or something. PB talks a lot about a pond, but that's far in the future. the next big project is to take all this granite we got and build up the retaining wall that was held back with nothing but landscape fabric and is now just about washed out. absolutely back breaking work. we also put a new nesting box in the chicken coop, now that more of the chicks are old enough to start laying eggs.
 
speaking of ponds and gardens....went over to j's house last night. his garden is going off. ken, he even has watermelon's growing and i know how you people love those. we chowed down on some black eye peas straight from his garden. they were pretty amazing. also shredded up zuchinni, squash and onions and fried them into a hashbrown type dish. it was awesome. also straight from his garden. i'm sure he'd swap with ya'll. his okra isn't doing shit.

le chocolate lab can't stay away from water.

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michael said:
i'm sure you've read up a bit on the peach trees, but it's really important to thin out the flowers, because if they all come to fruition the branches can break from the weight of the fruit. i did not know this the only year i had one around.

i finally got some plants in the ground a couple days ago. later than i wanted to but at least i got some stuff in - 2 varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant, and a cucumber vine. i have some more varieties of pepper seedlings that i may grow in containers on the deck - ghost pepper, bolivian rainbow, and 2 something elses i can't remember.
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We got some of those ghost peppers on the go they are insane to cook with you only need about 1/4 per pot of food. They are going into hibernation over winter though but should be back come the warmer months. Also got bird eye chillies (capsicum annum and a capsicum fructescens), jamaican yellow habenero's, yellow trinidad scorpions, two varieties of basil, parsley and mint. Just moved out of a place that had goji berries, capers and lime trees in the earth but to make up for it the new place has oranges, red grapes, mulberries and loquats so it all worked out well. Plus it has heaps more space and sunlight. Also got 5 Khat bushes in pots between 8 and 4 years old.

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