What did you do in the garden today?

[Stuffedcritter]

Fungus gnat ( soil) I don't have experience with using Neem oil, but use bowels of soapy vinegar water, sticky tapes, DE, and keep the fan on low setting keep them from landing on plants, some times just letting soil dry out more helps with house plants.


70* now that's swimming weather-)

 

[Two Chicksahs]

alldembirds, we have a really nice blooming tree that we were told was a wild cherry but I thought cherry trees have pink flowers and these are white. I love the pic of your woods! What color are service berries? Today I started some Armenian cukes, pickle seeds, Detroit beets (Do chickens like Beets?) and some Victorian Rhubarb seeds. Oh yeah Tyee Spinach too!
Is it warming up in Missouri? Claire lived there for a number of years.

 

[alldembirds]

thank you, they have a couple kinds of serviceberry, mine our pinkish purple almost like blueberries if they ever get a chance to ripen before the birds eat them. the leaves are similar in shape as a cherry they both have the jagged edges. they have wonderful fall color also . feels like it's warming up but missouri is weird you never know what tomorrow brings. I dont have frost predicted for the next week its only going to get down to 40 overnight on the coldest night and the warmest day up to 75.. not too bad

 

[Amberjem]

fungus natts.. using mix of water, dawn dish soap (just a smidge) lil vingar and poof gone...also nemododes


I been busy......got a couple more fruit tree's hope to get a rainer cherry next week have a sweetheart cherry a mystery cherry, two plum tree's frost peac, yellow egg plum tree..


picked up a blueberry I am wondering what variety it could be but it came with a story..apparently local farmer over planted his fields on the neighbors property and refused to remove them..said neighbor removed them from his property and sold them..........anyways it came home with me it had a few good years already in the soil as well..........I wonder if there is a comman bluebverry crop variety?

been busy transplanting seedlings into four inch pots..a few hundred later and I can start on some of the flowering seedlings next lol...

 

[alldembirds]

good luck with figuring out that blueberry there are over 152 varieties commercially available lol , there are a couple common varieties for crops but I only know a couple of the southern ones...

 

[Meaghan]

I googled the fungus gnat and the pictures I found make it seem like it isn't a fungus gnat. The ones we have aren't angular bodied, more rounded. I wish I could get a good picture of them, but they are just too tiny! On CSU's info page about fungus gnats, it says that they take 2-3 weeks to go through their larval stage, but we have only had the cups active for the past 10 days or so, so I'm not sure if that's even enough time to produce adult flies. Prior to that, the soil cups were not being watered and they were allowed to dry out for about a month. So that timing just seems strange to me!

The soil isn't kept damp either, we only water them once every day or every other day depending upon how the plants are looking. They are in an air conditioned bedroom, so it's pretty dry inside and the water evaporates from the surface of the soil ~4-6 hours after it's applied. I wish we could move the cups outside, but we have about 500 of them, so that would be impossible!

I don't have any gnatrol hanging around, but we do have another brand of BT. I just don't want to use anything unnecessarily as it appears they aren't affecting the plants at all. Everyone is still happily sprouting along! Perhaps I will take some pictures in a bit, we have some great looking beans and cucumbers that are starting to get huge as well as some itty bitty peppers.

 

[hennible]

See if soil fly exist... Lol
I've had little flys come in the dirt from the store... Sand flys maybe... I'm not sure about the name really... Either way the flys I have had didn't hurt the plants, and whatever I read about them I have long forgotten beyond that.
Amberjems recipe would get rid of them if there like what I've had....

 

[3goodeggs]

I googled the fungus gnat and the pictures I found make it seem like it isn't a fungus gnat. The ones we have aren't angular bodied, more rounded. I wish I could get a good picture of them, but they are just too tiny! On CSU's info page about fungus gnats, it says that they take 2-3 weeks to go through their larval stage, but we have only had the cups active for the past 10 days or so, so I'm not sure if that's even enough time to produce adult flies. Prior to that, the soil cups were not being watered and they were allowed to dry out for about a month. So that timing just seems strange to me!

The soil isn't kept damp either, we only water them once every day or every other day depending upon how the plants are looking. They are in an air conditioned bedroom, so it's pretty dry inside and the water evaporates from the surface of the soil ~4-6 hours after it's applied. I wish we could move the cups outside, but we have about 500 of them, so that would be impossible!

I don't have any gnatrol hanging around, but we do have another brand of BT. I just don't want to use anything unnecessarily as it appears they aren't affecting the plants at all. Everyone is still happily sprouting along! Perhaps I will take some pictures in a bit, we have some great looking beans and cucumbers that are starting to get huge as well as some itty bitty peppers.

This first one is a drain fly or a sewer fly.

these are white flies:

anything starting to look right yet?
fungus gnat: they also go by the name soil flies and shore gnats.

The picture makes them look like big old mosquitoes, but the are quite small. I don't like them because they make a mess... but they fly up my nose when I am cutting back the plants and I hate that.

1. "Fungus gnats are small, delicate bodied flies that commonly develop in the growing medium of houseplants. Larvae of fungus gnats feed on algae,fungi and plant roots in growing medium. Adults do not bite or feed."

 

[Two Chicksahs]

alldembirds, we have a really nice blooming tree that we were told was a wild cherry but I thought cherry trees have pink flowers and these are white. I love the pic of your woods! What color are service berries? Today I started some Armenian cukes, pickle seeds, Detroit beets (Do chickens like Beets?) and some Victorian Rhubarb seeds. Oh yeah Tyee Spinach too!
Is it warming up in Missouri? Claire lived there for a number of years.

 

[Meaghan]

I managed to get one good picture! It took me a bit, but these three little dots on my finger are individual flies.

Are they really that small? I understand that the larvae can damage plants but it doesn't seem like they have. Should I spray all of the plants anyways?

Here are some more pictures. It will be a huge garden this summer. We just downed the last tree in the new outdoor garden space yesterday. Now just to till and clear the weeds!

All of the plants.

Happy melons.

Beans needed some support, so I put stakes in them today. They are growing fast!

Zucchini is doing well, it has the biggest leaves of all the plants so far.

Our cucumbers sprouted within a matter of 5 days and have been growing really well.

Corn is finally getting going!

Teeny tiny peppers.

For some reason, little tiny Basil sprouts always make me nostalgic. Not that we grew a lot of it growing up, it just reminds me of little clover weeds in the garden growing up. I think they're "cute" little plants.