What did you do in the garden today?

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Sueby said:
Hey all. Been busy with the first week of classes & packing for vacation. Going away for a couple weeks. Picked all the veggies I could, will water in the am. I pulled the blue lake beans, very disappointing this year. Pulled the last of the cucumbers too. Did all I could, now the garden is in DH's hands, Godspeed veggies! :gig

Have a great couple weeks y'all. ❤️
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Have fun just have fun !
 
@TJAnonymous I agree with WthrLady - these are webs, I think. I just tossed my tomato because I couldn't get the mites under control :(
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Sally PB said:
Idea for next year: Dig the potatoes in stages. I have a lot more I can dig, but I only have some much room to lay them out. So I dig a few plants at a time, get those taters taken care of, dig some more.

Be sure to mark where the plants are as they die back so you can find them. Ask me how I know this... :gig
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Tried that. Never manage to go back for the last few rows. I have a raised bed with earlys I harvest as needed and then the big patch for storage. If I dont do them all at once as weather permits they get ate or forgotten.😔
 
Ascholten said:
Possibly like a tiny little aphid or mite or something? IM trying to remember what I used when I had that issue a few years ago. It's not copper salts, but something else, let me go look at my goops and see what I got. Good ole soap might work too, like I want to say a tbsp of dawn in a gallon of water or something like that to wash the leaves down, it was a tiny aphid or mite or something.

BTW Dawn soap is generally considered like organic, that is what they use to clean off birds when they get oil slicks on them. It works very well... I have a story about a cockatoo and cleaning a deep fryer and an oil slicked bird but we'll save it for another day.

Aaron
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I walked through the garden again tonight and took a closer look at the beans and tomatoes. I have seen some white flies but not really any aphids. I checked the underside of leaves closely.

Right now I'm thinking this is a mosaic virus. So far it is isolated to just the plants inside the hoop house. The only plants NOT affected is the eggplant and broccolini.

I think tomorrow I'm going to pull everything out. It's supposed to rain this weekend so I hope to get a chance to burn all the brush.

I threw some more green bean seeds in my flower beds up by the house. Let's see if it reoccurs up there. It's about 500 ft from the garden.

Oh yeah, in my walkabout I DID see a ton of aphids on my grape vines. I will need to spray tomorrow.
 
if it's a virus / bacteria then it's in the dirt really and probably not going to go away without some sort of treatment I'd imagine. I have put dirt in the oven before, in clay pots or whatever. Then replanted in the pots.
Yes it DOES kill EVERYTHING, including good, but that's easily re established, as long as we get rid of the bad and have good compost for the next plant.

You can spray stuff to get rid of issues like this often times, but depending on your 'Organic Disposition' what you want to use or even if you want TO use is up to you.

Sometimes burn it in a fire pit then use the ash to augment or charcoal for bio char is another alternative.

Aaron
 

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