What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

My problem lemon tree is back to causing problems again.


Losing leaves. Again. Something is eating huge sections of leaves but I've checked that tree over multiple times and can't find any pests. Over the past month, I've sprayed it with Dormant oil, Neem, and insecticidal soap. Still having problems. It's been indoors since October. I'm about to throw it outside and let the damn thing fend for itself.

Continue rant... I've been dealing with this damn tree for 4 yrs? 3 yrs? It's never even produced a single BLOOM! Let alone any actual fruit. And I am sick of pouring time and money into it. Just FED UP.

 

[karenerwin]

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I was wondering if I was going to experience any actual “Arizona “ weather this trip

 

[Sueby]

Sorry to hear that @Wee Farmer Sarah - I would be livid.

Oh, I'm so sorry, hope things get better.



Maybe you'll be able to just gain ideas this year, and do a little something in the garden next year. One thing to consider, is plan things to grow that take less work but are expensive in the store. Like fruit trees, berry bushes, asparagus - stuff you plant once that you can harvest year after year, that is expensive to buy. Why break your back for potatoes and carrots?

This is excellent advice & I have done just that over the last few years. I’ve added some blueberry bushes & a peach tree last year. I am questioning wether or not I’ll be able to have a garden at all, the conversations just go full circle; I like to grow my own food so I know where it came from, not sure I can bend to garden anymore, maybe I can raise the beds, it’s cheaper to buy veggies, I like to know where my food came from…

I may consider giving up on squash & cukes, they take the most effort with the dang svb & beetles. Not worth it for the price I can get from the farm stand. I’ve also stopped growing canning tomatoes, I just cannot grow enough here to make it worth it so I only grow a few slicers. We shall see what next year brings.

Oh I also don’t do annual flowers of any kind, they have to be perennial & have a use (like for the bees). Except for my beloved dahlias, which are all going to die because I can’t get them in the ground.

 

[jerryse]

Got some rain early. Storms missed me again. A small town about a hour away got hit hard buy a tornado. Not much left of the town.
I got a 52 quart ezy tote because that is what Menards had. I will go to Target Saturday and buy the Hefty. The 52 quart holds 15 Solo cups. Ready to plant in them. Potted my rooted cuttings 3 of 6 had roots. Grafted onto 1 wild grape cutting. First attempt so now I wait. Got to 81 yesterday and cooler today.

 

[Sally PB]

@gtaus, check this out, see if it tells you what you want to know.
https://foodgardening.mequoda.com/d...gardeners-seed-germination-temperature-chart/

BTW, did you know a sealed hot greenhouse can MELT planting cells?!

Yeah, I saved plastic spinach containers, and wow, they collapsed into weird shapes last summer.

Having grown up in the 1960s myself, I remember friends and a younger brother that had to have planter warts removed. I think they said it spread in the locker room shower. IIRC, my friends who had a wart removed said that the docs froze it off.

I had warts as a young teen. I had them frozen off, taken off with a blistering compound, and the electric needle. The plantar warts... I can't remember which way they did it, but it worked.

 

[Sally PB]

We just got about 4" of rain. The topography of my downhill garden is... different now. Some big gullies, lots of washed out areas. I think most of the garlic and potato onions are still in place.

VERY glad that I didn't have anything else in there.

Our gravel driveway has some foot deep gullies, and some there's a spot on the road that might have a serious washout across it. All in all, if this is the worst, we lucked out. I know some people have lost everything.

 

[Mary Poopins Love]

We haven't gotten rain in FOREVER. We made some raised beds a week ago because of our unhospitiblely sandy soil. We planted banana peppers, tomatoes, cucumber seeds, zucchini seeds, romane lettuce, basil, and cilantro seeds.
Today there are cucumber and zucchini sprouts, Weenie banana peppers, and Tomato blossoms!

 

[gtaus]

@gtaus, check this out, see if it tells you what you want to know.
https://foodgardening.mequoda.com/d...gardeners-seed-germination-temperature-chart/

Perfect! It's even better than I had hoped for! I see that even without a heat mat, at a soil temperature of 63F, it still meets the minimum requirements of all my seedlings. Given that chart, I think I will start the seeds that need the most heat first, and rotate in the other pots as I have room. I think that will work.

I already printed out a copy of that chart for my reference. For anyone else interested, here is a copy of the picture. The picture file should print out fine on a standard 8-1/2 X 11 inch sheet of paper.

 

[gtaus]

Thanks to @Sally PB, I have become aware of Food Gardening Network and a number of Freebies they offer for printout. I will be downloading some of the .pdf files to read later but thought I would post a picture of their Companion Planting Chart which I think I will find useful this year.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Thanks to @Sally PB, I have become aware of Food Gardening Network and a number of Freebies they offer for printout. I will be downloading some of the .pdf files to read later but thought I would post a picture of their Companion Planting Chart which I think I will find useful this year.

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I started out using the Companion Planting resource below. However, I have since created a Notion spreadsheet/DB where I'm keeping all of this information since these little picture graphs aren't fully inclusive.

Garden Wiki

I'm such a geek.