BYC gardening thread!!

[lazy gardener]

Looks like a cut worm. Before the chickens started patrolling the garden in the off season, I could collect 20 or 30 of them at a time in the fall when I was digging, Used to find a lot of chafer and Japanese beetle larvae also. Now, not so much. City lawns will be totally decimated every year. My lawn stays nice and green... always has, even before chickens. I think it's cause I allow more than grass to grow in the garden. If it's green, it passes for lawn.

 

[dan26552]

Looks like a cut worm. Before the chickens started patrolling the garden in the off season, I could collect 20 or 30 of them at a time in the fall when I was digging

I found a lot of them.

 

[dan26552]

Does anybody know what these are? I've never seen them damage plants so I'm guessing they're predators

They are really common though, there were about 20 on the 3 potatoes right there.





And look I was looking over the volunteer squash and I spotted female flowers on one of them, it's winged!

And then there's this one, ten times smaller than most of the others but it has a female flower and they don't

My hand for size comparison



I've got corn!!!

Cherokee purple tomato

Tomatillos.







Any idea why it's turning yellow?

Nutriant deficiency?

It's taller than me

(Mostly, there are a few stragglers. )

My other corn.

A bucket for size comparison

Kiwis!

Glad


So early in the spring I was walking by some of my little pine trees and I remembered seeing somewhere that if you pinch the new tip about half way it would encourage more branching so since these trees were kinda skimpy on branches I'd try it on a few new shoots and see what happened, well it worked.





Compared to an untrimmed tip.

 

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Does anybody know what these are? I've never seen them damage plants so I'm guessing they're predators

They are really common though, there were about 20 on the 3 potatoes right there.




That orange spot looks like potato beetle larva . Not sure what the bugs are .

 

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Does anybody know what these are? I've never seen them damage plants so I'm guessing they're predators

They are really common though, there were about 20 on the 3 potatoes right there.




That orange spot looks like potato beetle larva . Not sure what the bugs are .​

Orange spot in the last picture? I think thats just pine straw.

 

[dan26552]

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/citrus/leptoglossus_zonatus.htm Interesting.

 

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[lazy gardener]

Potatoes are my all time favorite vegetable to grow. Nothing compares to reaching into the soil to rob a couple of new potatoes. They make the perfect lunch... cooked up with a few other veggies and served with cottage or sharp cheese. I planted 2 rows between the corn yesterday.

 

[dan26552]

Potatoes are my all time favorite vegetable to grow. Nothing compares to reaching into the soil to rob a couple of new potatoes. They make the perfect lunch... cooked up with a few other veggies and served with cottage or sharp cheese. I planted 2 rows between the corn yesterday.

I've never really had success growing "Big" potatoes, usually just seed potato sized, when I pulled that one out I just stared at it in disbelief

 

[chickadoodles]

Your potatoes look nice Dan.

I have some golden potatoes planted and I am hoping they will be a nice med. size when they are ready. This is my first time trying potatoes they are in a large pot.

I got tired of all the bugs attacking my garden and I dusted everything this morning. Those darn cabbage worms were eating my turnips this time. And something has been eating my strawberries!