Square Foot Gardening Thread

[NanaKat]

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With the vine borer, you can find and remove the worm, flush out the stem with water and then allow it to dry. You may have to split the vine along the stem to get all the frass out. Finally cover the dried stem with dirt and compost. The vine will usually recover.

 

[NanaKat]

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I always plant mine so that they can vine up a trellis and also on the ground under the trellis. A layer of compost on top of a soaker hose keeps the moisture near the roots and little on the vines themselves.
My mother-in-law plants hers in a row with the "hill" running the entire length of the row. She then allows the vines to travel along the ground into the "middles".

Our butternut is producing little squashes in abundance but the pumpkins are being slow about it.

 

[Kassaundra]

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With the vine borer, you can find and remove the worm, flush out the stem with water and then allow it to dry. You may have to split the vine along the stem to get all the frass out. Finally cover the dried stem with dirt and compost. The vine will usually recover.

Thanks I'll have to try that. Do you have to catch it early for that?

 

[NanaKat]

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With the vine borer, you can find and remove the worm, flush out the stem with water and then allow it to dry. You may have to split the vine along the stem to get all the frass out. Finally cover the dried stem with dirt and compost. The vine will usually recover.

Thanks I'll have to try that. Do you have to catch it early for that?

Usually as soon as you notice the frass. You will find the hole where the worm has entered the vine. Use a knife to cut incison long enough to find the worm. I use tweezers to grip and pull the worm out so I don't have to make a very big incision. The least amount of damage to the stem, the quicker the vine recovers.

 

[krcote]

Thanks ContessaKris and NanaKat- I am headed out there to remove the damaged leaves and spray with baking soda/soap solution!

 

[ContessaKris]

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Make sure you don't spray during the heat of the day, as I have learned with burning my leaves... Good luck!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Put up 18 quarts of green beans and ham last night thanks to BaltimoreHarps. Mine are producing but just enough for us to eat at a meal. Bought 2 bushels off of her. Her garden is a good 10x's larger than mine. Need to get on the last half bushel. Making Dilly Beans--spicey pickled Green beans

 

[krcote]

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What Dilly Bean recipe are you using? I do not like the one I used last year a whole lot. I am open to suggestions!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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What Dilly Bean recipe are you using? I do not like the one I used last year a whole lot. I am open to suggestions!

I was going to use the one out of the Ball Blue Book. Is that the one you did?

 

[jnkir7]

i went out yesterday ,all of a sudden stink bugs everywhere , i picked a lot off then i put seven dust on them i have never had good luck with it but was all i had ,i thought maybe it would get some of the soft shelled ones , went out this morning gonna pick off bugs there was not a one on my plants,my gate was left open by accident so i dont know if the chickens got them or they just left i was very surprised happy but very surprised, any ideas on this it was yellow squash plants