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Backyard Vegetable Gardening & Livestock Raising & Sustainable Living

I don't know about the ants, but your mint will love the shot of nitrogen from the corn meal.

Weeds suck. I get em small but all this rain is making it hard to kill them.

Up so far: onions, garlic, beets, peas, spinach, artichokes. Potatoes are breaking the ground, carrots are sketchy; I might need to replant them...

Still to plant all the warm season stuff. The weather man still saying a few nights in the high 30's... I need to get my tomatoes out. They are toughing the grow lights.
 
^where do you live again?
last frost here is usually may 10th

bah weeds
i hate them but love to pull them
im in the process of clearing out both gardens which consist of about 200 goliath tomatoes, 50 german johnsons, and 50 bush goliaths
not including the strawberries and new potatoes
i need to plant the fuggin cucumbers already
 
Maine. Last year, I had maters in early May with row cover over some pipe arches and they were fine. This year has been a whole lot different.

Are your tomatoes in the field or high tunnels?
 
So, I guess you don't need to trick them into being hotter? My neighbor swears that young peppers are hotter than peppers that have been on the plant longer. I don't really know.

I planted 45 peppers so far at home along with 25 tomatoes. I'm out of room here so the rest will go to my other garden. I put up 30 feet of trellis net for pole beans. Will plant them in the a.m.

* Got the other garden tilled planted 20 more maters and a dozen more peppers.
 
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Yes it's tomato blight. I've stopped bothering growing tomatoes after getting blight the last 3 years. Harvest any green tomatoes now and salvage what you can as they will all go down hill. The fungus is airborn and spreads quick so burn or throw away any infected plants as soon as possible. Don't put them on the compost heap, and don't grow tomatoes in the same soil next year as the fungus lives in the soil. Bummer.
 
I would have guessed blossom end rot. But then again, I'm looking at the pic from my phone. Beagleboy, does he rest of the plant appear healthy? Ber can happen in containers very easily. Basically the plant is having a hard time getting calcium from the plant mix. Causes can range from too wet, too dry, too much nitrogen and so on. It may only effect the first few fruits, if you can remedy the root cause. Gardenweb's tomato forum would have really good advice for you.

Kytnism, I'll get some pics here soon.
 
badandwicked, there are some newer hybrids that have some resistance to early or late blight. Might be worth a try if you're in a blight prone area. Defiant and Mountain Merit are both said to have decent resistance. It could be worth a try.
 
b&w, I've never grown tomatoes as I'm allergic. My dad does. He says that it goes back to the genetics of the plant to obtain resistance to blight but that there are no guarantees. You're correct that the spores stay in the soil. He said if he observed blight in his crop that he'd probably take it out right then and contain it.

This is my first question in this thread. I've got access to loads of Hood strawberries (an early ripening variety) for free. I plan to make preserves. I'll know how many flats (at least 5!!!) will be coming my way and I am fine with sterile canning techniques, have all the equipment, etc. But this is my first time canning strawberries. Any advice for a noob?
 
This is my first question in this thread. I've got access to loads of Hood strawberries (an early ripening variety) for free. I plan to make preserves. I'll know how many flats (at least 5!!!) will be coming my way and I am fine with sterile canning techniques, have all the equipment, etc. But this is my first time canning strawberries. Any advice for a noob?
Wow 5 flats? Gonna be some good eating at your house. I have made jam using recipes from "Ball's blue book" they turned out really good. My mom makes strawberry freezer jam. It tastes like fresh strawberries because it isn't cooked. So if you are tired of cooking jam, it's an option to do some freezer jam as well.
 
My green bell peppers are well on their way. I was told to make some hills on my blue potatoes (hill potatoes) in hopes of getting a few more taters out of 'em.

Snatched some lettuce out of the garden the other night for dinner. And I regularly have oregano drying upside down via twine by my kitchen window.

The blackberries are *just* starting to deepen too.

My Miami Gardenia finally blossomed- and she is a vision to behold! Between that and the confederate jasmine, it smells like heaven down there.
 
Got some more stuff planted at plot #2 today. Even though it's later than I wanted, it couldn't be helped with the weather here lately. Winter squash, beans and corn should all have time to produce before cool weather comes back.

Here at the house, my peas have really jumped up and the potatoes are coming along nicely. I hit a few things with fish emulsion today too. Man, if every cat in the neighborhood doesn't know where my garden is, they will now. That stuff smells strong.
 
same.

im so fricken curious. simply because ive been watching youtube vids of people remodeling their small back and front yards into sustainable food growth sources. im dying to see yours (granted how much knowledge you have to share, and what you yield each season; in hopes i can someday get my garden to be as fruitful).

...kytnism...:|
 
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