What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Went outside between thunderstorms...

Lemon squash are the round fruits, straightneck is in the middle, zucchini and lemon squash on the right. No fruit yet on the Zapallito del Tronco.

Tomatoes!

German Johnson

Roma (plum)

 

[Sammster]

Something (insect culprit) is decimating certain plants in my gardens. Zinnias, peas, peppers, sunflowers. I've started spraying (daily) with insecticidal soap. It's not doing enough to stop them. I've even re-sown peas, spraying them from the moment they sprout. Not helping.

I've noticed heavier-than-usual insect population this year, in general. Perhaps because we had a very mild winter. It's very frustrating to watch plants, that I started from seed and babied from the start, disappear before my eyes.

 

[TillyPeeps]

Something (insect culprit) is decimating certain plants in my gardens. Zinnias, peas, peppers, sunflowers. I've started spraying (daily) with insecticidal soap. It's not doing enough to stop them. I've even re-sown peas, spraying them from the moment they sprout. Not helping.

I've noticed heavier-than-usual insect population this year, in general. Perhaps because we had a very mild winter. It's very frustrating to watch plants, that I started from seed and babied from the start, disappear before my eyes.

In my experience, neem oil works better than soap. If it still doesn't work, I will start Pyrethrin. It's still natural and biodegradable, but you need to spray it after sunset to avoid hurting bees.

 

[chicken opey]

Something (insect culprit) is decimating certain plants in my gardens. Zinnias, peas, peppers, sunflowers. I've started spraying (daily) with insecticidal soap. It's not doing enough to stop them. I've even re-sown peas, spraying them from the moment they sprout. Not helping.

I've noticed heavier-than-usual insect population this year, in general. Perhaps because we had a very mild winter. It's very frustrating to watch plants, that I started from seed and babied from the start, disappear before my eyes.

I alternate soap w Neem oil. Also use DE - use that in coop and where the outside cats sleep too.

 

[NanaK]

Something (insect culprit) is decimating certain plants in my gardens. Zinnias, peas, peppers, sunflowers. I've started spraying (daily) with insecticidal soap. It's not doing enough to stop them. I've even re-sown peas, spraying them from the moment they sprout. Not helping.

I've noticed heavier-than-usual insect population this year, in general. Perhaps because we had a very mild winter. It's very frustrating to watch plants, that I started from seed and babied from the start, disappear before my eyes.

I've had a problem with earwigs this year. They come out at night to do their damage. My area I use to harden off starts was infested. I saw online to make earwig traps with fish oil from canned fish. I do not use any fish packed in oil so bought a can of mackerel. (cheapest). Put the oil in a shallow dish and sat it out with the plants. Didn't get them all but caught a bunch of them.

If you are not seeing insects in the daytime check at night with a flash light. Slugs do their deed at night too.

Sneaky devils!

 

[chicken opey]

Is it dock? I have it everywhere. Lol! Good morning gardeners. I started clearing the squash to be patch in the high garden with the green beans. It shouldn’t take too long, however early morning is the easiest time of day to work up there. The bush beans there are slowly breaking soil now. Time for my breakfast now and a rest. Mowing after breakfast.

Is dock the same as pigweed?

 

[chicken opey]

Is dock the same as pigweed?

my iPhone identified as borage!!! I do hope so

 

[Supercow]

You are running early.
I bet you had a mild winter. We did and lots of ticks survived and are bad this year.

Super early. The main problem is that temperatures in the last decade or so begin to rise much earlier than they used to; but at the same time frost events still happen. We were just lucky in that the late frost we had after hitting +30 C was a modest one (-2 C) so most of the fruit survived. Grapevines are mostly burnt though.
And yes, ticks are having a party...

 

[Supercow]

my iPhone identified as borage!!! I do hope so

All three of those (dock, pigweed, borage) are different plants. (But all are edible.)

 

[Acre4Me]

Holy cow! Mine are little cotyledons at this point. Were did yours come from - did you seed them, volunteers or purchased? (my first year growing so I'm curious)

They are volunteers from last year! Yes, lots of little borage plants in the vicinity.