Ambitious certified black thumb- I’m in over my head SOS pls send help

[campingshaws]

Lisa do you have any advice on the strawberries? Not sure if I should try them anyway or take them back for the $$.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Getting anxious for warm weather to get here. I so want to be planting, but it will be atleast the end of April before I can plant in the greenhouse. That still leaves me 4-5 weeks of having to heat greenhouse at night. Gets too costly to do it any sooner. Decided to break up the winter blahs with working on garden stuff. Haven't got all my seeds yet, but was able to make some seed tapes that I will use in the gardens.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Lisa do you have any advice on the strawberries? Not sure if I should try them anyway or take them back for the $$.

Maybe take the most of them back. Save a couple plants to put in the bed that has some shade & better irrigation. That way your only out a couple plants if they don't make it.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I also hate using insecticide. BT is perfectly safe, but it's expensive. I don't want to put any insecticide on any part of the plant that I'll be eating. I'll put it on squash leaves, but it won't be put on the fruit. I won't put it on greens like lettuce and spinach. Thankfully, slugs are usually the only issue I have with greens, and Sluggo is perfectly safe to use for those issues.

Was just reading a couple nights ago about slug control. I have problems with them & the article reccommended using like a clean peanut butter jar layed on its side with regular corn meal in it. Supposedly the slugs are attracted to the cornmeal & when they injest it, it kills them.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I had purple and sweet. I made tons of caprese skewers (basil, mozzarella, cherry tomato on a toothpick drizzled with basalmic vinegar) and that was fine. Maybe it’s a mental thing.



One of my companion charts said that marigolds repel cabbage moths and tomatoes repel cabbage worms. Does that sound right?

I had a cabbage plant smack dab between 2 tomato plants & the cabbage still ended up with cabbage worms, lol.

 

[campingshaws]

I really wanted to try strawberries in baskets this year. This is hard.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Two years ago I planted the whole garden line in jumbo marigold plants. Had less pest that year, didnt plant any last year & I was overrun with pest problems.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I really wanted to try strawberries in baskets this year. This is hard.

I think I will dig mine up early spring & try them in a hanging basket. Never even got a berry off mine because of the darn ant problem.

 

[lazy gardener]

Was just reading a couple nights ago about slug control. I have problems with them & the article reccommended using like a clean peanut butter jar layed on its side with regular corn meal in it. Supposedly the slugs are attracted to the cornmeal & when they injest it, it kills them.

Sluggo is a little pellet that you sprinkle in the garden. It's safe to use around children and pets. But just to be on the safe side, I'll not let the chickens in the garden when I'm using it. It's active ingredient is iron phosphate, so it breaks down to be a soil amendment. The slugs eat it, and crawl off to die. Wonderful product. It's also sold in a generic form. Walmart carries it. Be sure that iron phosphate is the ONLY active ingredient.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I also planted oregano in between my tomato plants 2 years ago & had the best looking plants. Fought this last summer with blight & curled leaf, but we didn't have a very warm summer either.