What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

I think deep blue sea is having the same problem I am. It’s not a problem with the feet getting wet All the timebut I think where she lives is like where I live right now. There’s been record-breaking rain fall to the point where there’s actually still tons of road closures because of flooding damage or sink holes Or areas that are still flooding. It has been a rough few weeks for the animals and those who own them. But I have always been curious about fermented feed and what it really is all about

FF thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fermented-feeds-anyone-using-them.645057/

 

[lazy gardener]

Here's an other article re: late blight, with several paragraphs that I deemed pertinent. You can click the link to read the whole article:

http://news.psu.edu/story/173084/2009/10/21/prevent-tomato-late-blight-next-growing-season

To help prevent late blight next growing season, Gugino recommends making sure that all late blight-infected tomato and/or potato plant tissue from this past season is dead and home gardeners refrain from composting diseased plant material. "Late blight cannot withstand the freezing winter temperatures of the northeast, but may be able to live in the center of a warm compost pile. As long as the plant tissue is alive, the pathogen can survive."

There is no need to remove the dead tomato plant tissue this late in the season or treat the soil over the winter, since the freezing temperatures will kill both the plant tissue and late blight. However, late blight can survive in infected potato tubers overwinter and can be a potential source of the disease the following year. If they are infected, Gugino recommends they be dug up and disposed of in the regular trash. "If volunteer potato plants grow next season make sure to quickly destroy them."

Fortunately, the late blight pathogen can't survive in or on tomato seeds, or on tomato cages and stakes between the seasons and therefore cannot be a source of the disease next season. However, Gugino said many bacterial diseases can survive in the seeds and on the cages so it is still important to purchase high quality seed and to disinfect cages and stakes to help control these diseases.

Currently there are no tomato varieties resistant to late blight, however growers and home gardeners have observed that some may be less susceptible than others.

"Fortunately, there are some potato varieties including Elba, Kennebec, Allegany, Sebago, Rosa, Defender, Jacqueline Lee and Ozette, that are described as having some late blight resistance," Gugino said.
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As for FF, there is a FAQ article written by Tiki Jane about the how and why of FF in my signature. You will have to paste the link into a search bar to access it.

 

[lazy gardener]

There are a number of tomato varieties that are blight resistant. Fedco Seeds, as do other companies list resistant varieties.

 

[deepbluesea]

Thanks for the kind words, folks--I hate it when I can't make creatures under my care better. Makes me feel helpless.

Rachel's right--we have very similar, Noah's ark-like situations. Breaking precipitation records. We got another inch+ last night, as well. I've been pulling all of my feeders into the house at night, just to keep the temptations down. My run is almost predator-proof, but I've had a baby possum in there a couple of times and I need to figure out how the growly little thing is getting in.

I'll look up your link on FF; it's not really been on my radar.

Stoopid full-time job!

 

[dunnmom]

I have some old blue hubbard seeds, actually. Probably too late now, but good to know.

She was still looking pitiful when I got home. She's eating and drinking, but her balance is still a bit off and she's all hunched up and miserable-looking. She can move quickly, though, is drinking the probiotic/nutri-drench water, and she mowed down the watermelon and feed I put in front of her, and snuck back behind the others to eat some of the main watermelon when they weren't looking. She put herself to bed at night, too. I didn't see any of her poops last night, but I had to go and pick up my son, so I wasn't out there the whole time.

Her feet are fine, but I do need to check her vent. Poor chickie.

I hope she feels better soon.

 

[dunnmom]

We're getting quite a bit of rain today so far. It's been much needed. Been such a dry year so far for us. Although, it means I have to skip out on my chicken and garden therapy today. Someone broke and ate an egg yesterday. Probably due to the feed change. Since I have mixed ages in the coop now, I switched to grower. Looks like the big girls need some free choice shells.

 

[Beer can]

Ever since yrs ago I had my tomatoes completely wiped out by late blight, one day nice and green next completely dead and black
I've been using organic liquid copper fungicide on them. You can get a bottle of concentrated makes 50gals for the same price as one spray bottle of ready to use.

 

[deepbluesea]

Annnd, it's storming again. SMH.

 

[deepbluesea]

Hello garden friends. I lost her yesterday. She was gone when I got home from work. I checked her vent, all fine. No idea why. I'm sad. RIP sweet Ruby the black birchen marans. She was shaping up to be a lap chicken before she got sick.

That said, since I only had her for about two months, it isn't quite as painful as when I lost Elena, my first. She was three and I was a mess.

 

[Chris2018]

View attachment 1418836 View attachment 1418838 View attachment 1418837 When I was finishing up pulling the grass out of the garden around my tomatoes I noticed two of my Martian giant slicers plants are having issues. Or maybe they’re not issues but not something I’ve seen before. One of them which is the first two pictures and very hard to see has these small odd bumps on the stem And a few days I noticed one of the branches had leaves that were turning brown and didn’t seem good they were just odd looking so I Snipped that branch off and today I noticed there was two more branches like that. So I’m not sure what’s causing that either or if the bumps on the other tomato plant or a problem.

By chance has it been wet and or cool there?
Have you been watering a lot, if so what's your water like?