Garden Grow?

[coloradoclyde]

Tasted good on the spaghetti I had for supper too. :thumbsup:

 

[sidelock]

Tomatoes hit by blight and dying. Never had this before. Beans a plenty. Cucumbers coming on strong. Beets and carrots look great. Squash (all kinds) abundant.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I was admiring my Indian corn today and noticed that one stalk was extremely tall....like 15+ feet tall and the ears of corn must be close to 10 feet off the ground.... :shocked2:
The corn is very tall this year but I have never seen ears that far from the ground before.... :idunno:

 

[omarick1948]

Clyde, Have ta git ya a monkey to go up the stalk and pick it!

 

[sidelock]

A bunch of my stuff has been very leggy this year. Don't know why. Every year seams different.

 

[nhmoose]

Wife picked a bushel of plumb sauce tomatoes this morning ,tomorrow we make and can spaghetti sauce!!!!!!!!!!! :stir:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Canned some yesterday!... :thumbsup:

I got tomatoes coming out my ears....Starting to get tired of them....Even ran out of jars and had to buy more.....

 

[KingofDerby]

Finally got the yard cleared, and made a trough out of scrap wood...stuck radish and spinach in it last week, potatoes in a bag for christmas...garlic and onions will go in over the next month or two. Early steps.

Assuming things survive, I'll make more troughs ready for the spring and grow...well, we'll see. Not a great deal of light, and there is no soil so had to buy in compost (the dehydrated version...no car, so can't transport normal stuff, and waiting in for deliveries is not practical)

 

[sidelock]

Wife made a very tasty vegie soup tonight using only items from the garden except sausage. Eight items. With cornbread------- yum.

 

[sidelock]

Do you have insect problems? I have no insects except root maggots when I try to grow turnips which I love and can't grow em.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I love fresh garden soup... :thumbsup:

Yes I have bugs....different every year...always a pain.....I don't like using pesticides...
The high moisture this year has caused lots of diseases.....

If gardening was easy, everyone would do it... :haha:

 

[Black Hand]

My grandfather used an infusion of tobacco as a natural insecticide/repellent.

 

[satx78247]

Sounds grand. - When I was a boy about 6 decades ago, we called that "Country Supper" & quite looked forward to it.

yours, satx

 

[Wes/Tex]

My grandfather used an infusion of tobacco as a natural insecticide/repellent.

Until about 15 years ago or so the nicotine based poisons were very common. Still had a sheet I got in the mail on how to distill the liquid poison down to a rapid killing add on for arrowheads...maybe one of the reasons it went bye-bye! :wink: :haha:

 

[Black Hand]

There are plenty of things present in nature that are poisonous. Tobacco just happens to be one of those things that work on many insects and that humans can acquire with ease.

Fairly certain my grandfather just collected the contents of the many ashtrays that were present in those days...

 

[Billnpatti]

Clyde, I have never dealt with Voles. The only thing I know about them is that they are more like mice than a mole is. However, they are both rodents and the vole may react to this method the same as moles do. Here is a method that a man in Indiana taught me......and it works!

Get some cheap cat litter (not the clumping kind) or some similar product such as Sorb All. Take a bag of it and mix in a couple 2 oz. bottles of caster oil and a bottle of garlic powder. You can use more if you want a stronger mix. Mix this all together well and let it sit for a day or two to blend together well. Then put it in a fertilizer spreader and spread it on your garden. There is something about the garlic and caster oil that they don't like and they leave the treated area. You may have to re-treat your garden a couple times during the growing season but it is not expensive and it is easy to treat your garden. I used one of the hand held rotary spreaders to spread the stuff on my yard. After I started using this method of control on my mole problems, I no longer had moles......but my neighbors did. I think I sent my moles to them. Oh well!!!

If you want to get rid of moles from your yard, you first spread a band of the mixture up next to your house. Let this work for a day or two and then spread a band out a short way from your house. Let this work for a day or two and then spread another band out farther from your house. What you are doing is chasing them away from your house. When you have finished spreading ever increasing bands around your house, you will have them out of your yard. Re-treat again in about two months only this time, you can just spread the stuff all over your yard. The moles are gone and you are just making sure that they don't want to come back. It may sound funny but it works.

This is good for yards or small back yard gardens but if you have a huge garden or a field to treat, you may have to look for another treatment to get rid of them.

 

[Gene L]

My garden is just so so. Potatoes look good but not many in the hill. Peas (shell and sugar) did just ok but gone now. Beans are coming on. Onions the best in several years. Tomatoes a long way off yet. Voles about took over the place when snow went off this spring but I got rid of them pretty fast.

Voles are very shy and are seldom seen. One got in my house and couldn't find his way out. Cute little think about the size and shape of an English Walnut. I captured him in a whiskey glass a couple of days later, he apparently was thirsty and lapped up some of the whiskey on the glass. I released him out the front door (he came in the back door) and hasn't been since.

Moles destroy a lot of stuff, but even when I lived on a farm, I never saw a vole up close until then. Shy, black, with bulging black eyes. Very cute.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Another busy day in the garden....Picking grapes and some hops....started some wine and drying hops for upcoming beers.

I screwed up storing some potatoes and lost about 2 bushels.....

Garden is coming in faster than I can manage....

 

[sidelock]

Worst garden I ever had in my life this year. Tomatoes gone (I got 1). Potatoes very poor. Peppers all died. Beans just OK. Beets dying. Carrots look just OK. Onions OK (I dug yesterday). Cabbage miner success. Severe dry weather here this summer but not unusual for here. I water every day from the well. BUT !!!!!!

 

[coloradoclyde]

Worst I ever had was, a year we had a big hail storm......It leveled the garden....Looked like it was run over with a lawn mower...