Simple answer to that powdery problem. Snip those flowers, stuff 'em with goat cheese and fry the suckers.

You can get great squash at the market, flowers...not so much.

-spence

for the next time that occurs

if you have a bag of powered sulfur at the ready
it is supposed to kill off the powdery mildew

which generally happens when there's been a combination of rain,
watering of the foliage, followed by / afternoon SUN or very high humidity.

Also, if you check the details some strains have
powdery mildew resistance....

An extremely mild mixture of Dawn and water(mostly water) works wonders on broadleaf vegetable plants.Like I said for me it was too little too late.

were gonna need BIGGER STAKES

it's BEEFY

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...nob1/beefy.png

But, I want one Big enough to put wheels on it
so I can drive it around town :wave:

never have i seen a tomato that big...:)

me neither
 

but..........

it's real

created by Burpee

veggies grown in Alaska are pretty enormous too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=larg...&bih=640&dpr=1

they should make graphene hexagon panels
that conduct electricity
super strong too
and make giant geodesic grow domes up there :uhuh:

Its almost time again for the garden. Who's growing what this year?

brocolli doesn't mind snow or cold period!
neither do sugar snap pea's
but check out this utuber video
great idea as weeds always win in the end
four day carrot germination
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ur+day+carrots

started turning over my three compost piles. saved all the kitchen waste in the barn over winter, and started adding that to the three working compost bins. Heat it all up again with the first lawn cutting.
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Put in the spinach and broccoli yesterday.

pre soaked my sugar snap seeds (6 packets) yesterday (started in the moon sign of Taurus)
planted them PRE -swelled today because it's going to RAIN HARD
and that vibration on top of them from the drumming rain says "grow peas grow"
i'll count how many days it takes for them to pop up.

Wood Chucksters are already out ,beware
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Raven,
What seeds do you pre soak and which do you leave? Never tried it before. How long in water?
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I can tell you I have had good luck pre-popping Peas and Beans. I put them in a single layer between a couple of wet paper towels in a Ziploc bag for a couple of days until they swell and "pop" and then plant them.

i put mine in a big zip lock and pre-soaked em overnight
making sure to pour off the water come morning leaving
it open sitting side saddle in a tupperware...

i was a little P.O.'d because my pea inoculant which was granuler
ran out @ half my row... Hate when that happens.... grrrrr

so now i'll have to poke some holes near the row and water in some inoculant
to make up for the lack of it.... surprised to see it @ Hd's half off sale on burpee seed rack ... 68 cents each for everthing
but i didn't buy some while there because the container i had felt heavier.

fingers got sooo cold after planting them like i was just making snow balls... :hs:

my sugar snap pea's are breaking thru today yay :happy:

So are mine :).

My hops vines are exploding as well... Chinook is growing about 3" a day it seems. Centennial are growing slower.
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I bed you did this in high school with some other seeds :hihi:
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dammit
 

F-ING MICE & F-ING Hornets... well the mice chewed on the lid
of the big green flip top trash can that i had full of shade cloth
just enough so the friggan yellow jackets had a perfect entrance.

they had a nest in there and when i got near it and jiggled it
out they came in a cloud and i got stung 4 times.... :realmad:

House lot across the street from me just cleared for construction, and I seem to have acquired a family of woodchucks. They ate my kale, parsley, and sunflower plants and started on the zucchini plants. I have a beautiful patch of arugula, which they haven't touched - must be too peppery.

one thing about wood chucks
they are time sensitive ... just like dogs
i've found...creatures of habit always leaving
their dens @ the same time of the morning.
knowing this from timing them.... i waited for one.

Rub a fresh cut onion on a yellow jacket sting, near instant relief. Cherokee remedy.

made a paste of baking soda and water ,,, worked great

meat tenderizer works good on those things too.. but I also am partial to the baking soda remedy..

I HATE YELLOW JACKETS.. evil little beast made a den under a bush next to the front door.. I got stung a bunch of times last year... so dug around the bush at night.. and yanked it out with the wheeler... rotto tilled the area and exterminated the little stinging missals...

Picked a bunch of cukes this morning, and they were as big as a zucchini! We've got blossoms everywhere!

Now if my peppers and tomatoes would do the same I'd be all set!

picked my first big tomato Finally

Picked 4 tomatoes so far and have a blue ribbon sized one maybe 2 or 3 days away. Slugs crushed my squash and zuchini, now my second plantinging is starting to flower. Waiting a couple weeks then will put in kale / spinach and maybe something else for the fall. What does everyone here do for fall crop?
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