@Peep_Show Daikon is SUPER mild and grows pretty well in any garden. I love it and use it for stirfry, pickles, even just eating slices raw.
BYC gardening thread!!
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Went home to tend to my critters on my lunch break to find that my neighbor had dropped a box of strawberry plants over my back fence. He's elderly and giving up gardening. The strawberries were the last thing he held onto. Guess I know what I'll be doing when I get off work. lol I'll have to be sure to drop his box back over the fence with some squash, zucchini and okra from my own garden
Oh lucky!
Okay so final tally for the Great Tomato Experiment (made a separate thread so this is the last I'll be posting about this stuff XD)
3 Indigo Rose (indeterminate)
3 Russian Black Sea Man (determinate)
3 Roma VF (determinate)
Of these, here is the list of pruned plants:
1 Indigo Rose
2 Russian BSMs
2 Roma VFs
Unpruned:
2 Indigo Roses
1 Russian BSM
1 Roma VF
All are currently in flower or putting out first fruit. All are watered every day to every other day. Three are fairly large, three are about medium, and three are kind of puny but have time to grow. This is being done in a rooftop garden in a large 1x1 meter tiered planter. I'm keeping relatively diligent watch and notes at this point, as I really haven't been this year and I want to do this experiment properly.
It's about four days in and the unpruned IR plants have more immature fruit than all the BSM put together. The Romas are roughly in the middle with two half-developed tomatoes and a few small immature ones forming on the largest pruned plant. The BSM has only two half-grown fruits and one immature fruit on the pruned plants , with most blossoms still just flowers and not drying out yet.
The two unpruned BSM and Roma plants have only blossoms (and not many). All the IR plants are beginning to fruit, with the unpruned IR plants putting out more fruit than the pruned. I'll keep everyone updated daily on the experiment in the separate thread!
3 Indigo Rose (indeterminate)
3 Russian Black Sea Man (determinate)
3 Roma VF (determinate)
Of these, here is the list of pruned plants:
1 Indigo Rose
2 Russian BSMs
2 Roma VFs
Unpruned:
2 Indigo Roses
1 Russian BSM
1 Roma VF
All are currently in flower or putting out first fruit. All are watered every day to every other day. Three are fairly large, three are about medium, and three are kind of puny but have time to grow. This is being done in a rooftop garden in a large 1x1 meter tiered planter. I'm keeping relatively diligent watch and notes at this point, as I really haven't been this year and I want to do this experiment properly.
It's about four days in and the unpruned IR plants have more immature fruit than all the BSM put together. The Romas are roughly in the middle with two half-developed tomatoes and a few small immature ones forming on the largest pruned plant. The BSM has only two half-grown fruits and one immature fruit on the pruned plants , with most blossoms still just flowers and not drying out yet.
The two unpruned BSM and Roma plants have only blossoms (and not many). All the IR plants are beginning to fruit, with the unpruned IR plants putting out more fruit than the pruned. I'll keep everyone updated daily on the experiment in the separate thread!
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I'm following this with interest. I think almost all my tomatoes have blossoms and several have fruit. I've tied them up and put straw underneath. Mine are called Sophie's Choice, Marizol Red, Heinz, Alaska and Kimberley. There may be another, but I'd have to go out there and see. Can't tell you the determinates and indeterminates without looking. I bought a good-size egglant at a plant sale in June. It suffered pretty good transplant shock and is just now recovering and putting out new leaves. Everything else looks to be doing okay, but I have to get some info about beets cuz they don't seem to be developing roots, despite being treated with 4-10-7. I thought I'd chased the ground squirrels by putting mothballs into the crevices of the rocks, but they're back. I believe another application of capsaicin is in order.
Had a horrible time with ground squirrels. Any sort of smell deterrent doesn't work with them. Tried the Bobbex-R and saturated the area I didn't want them near out to about 25 feet away. Place stunk like a bad worcestershire factory, but within an hour of application they were chewing the pits out of my apricot crop. (The company has a money back guarantee....we'll see if they honor it)
So went out to the website on the varmint ground squirrels and the only good control is trapping. Everything else is pretty much ineffective. (barriers might work, but it's hard to tent a couple of 30 foot treest)
So went out to the website on the varmint ground squirrels and the only good control is trapping. Everything else is pretty much ineffective. (barriers might work, but it's hard to tent a couple of 30 foot treest)
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Try pee..lol seriously it works for keeping cats and even the chickens outa my garden. I just tell the husband to pee in a bottle and I go sprinkle it around the plants. Not in the soil to close to them
Spent the day thinning the nectarine trees. The fruit was in glomps, like a honeybee swarm. There's still hecka fruit left on the tree even after taking oodles off.
(Bare spots are where clusters of fruit were removed) They look nice, but they're still rock hard.
(zoom in on this to see all the fruit AFTER a thinning)
The red pear is overloaded, too.
It apparently is quite the year for fruit!
Last year we installed the cider orchard....
Our handful of rooted twigs are coming along.
I'm a little bit peeved as the vigilant neighbors are informing me about folks in assorted cars are stopping, getting out, walking into the orchard and scoping the fruit. Looks like i'ts going to be a matter of "when" rather than "if" about putting up a fence. Don't need to deal with fruit poachers.... Not a darn thing is ripe now, either.
(Bare spots are where clusters of fruit were removed) They look nice, but they're still rock hard.
(zoom in on this to see all the fruit AFTER a thinning)
The red pear is overloaded, too.
It apparently is quite the year for fruit!
Last year we installed the cider orchard....
Our handful of rooted twigs are coming along.
I'm a little bit peeved as the vigilant neighbors are informing me about folks in assorted cars are stopping, getting out, walking into the orchard and scoping the fruit. Looks like i'ts going to be a matter of "when" rather than "if" about putting up a fence. Don't need to deal with fruit poachers.... Not a darn thing is ripe now, either.
- Jun 5, 2014
- 690
- 84
- 146
Spent the day thinning the nectarine trees. The fruit was in glomps, like a honeybee swarm. There's still hecka fruit left on the tree even after taking oodles off.
(Bare spots are where clusters of fruit were removed) They look nice, but they're still rock hard.
(zoom in on this to see all the fruit AFTER a thinning)
The red pear is overloaded, too.
It apparently is quite the year for fruit!
Last year we installed the cider orchard....
Our handful of rooted twigs are coming along.
I'm a little bit peeved as the vigilant neighbors are informing me about folks in assorted cars are stopping, getting out, walking into the orchard and scoping the fruit. Looks like i'ts going to be a matter of "when" rather than "if" about putting up a fence. Don't need to deal with fruit poachers.... Not a darn thing is ripe now, either.
OMG im so jello! jeeeeze those are marvelous
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