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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 17, 2018 6:52:12 GMT -5
Have made my own compost w/veggie and organic matter,since the 1980's to add to my my gardens. It sure is better than buying osmocote and the like. Epsom salt is a gardener's dream. Here's many reasons: bestplants.com/epsom-salt-garden-cheats/ Will show photos of my flowers gardens from time to time. Still lotsa snow in the northern NH mtns. It's about 2' deep. Bare ground is in 30 days
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Post by eggman on Mar 17, 2018 7:24:44 GMT -5
Well Cindy and u are going to the city today to a orchid show. We went for the first time last year and even though Cindy has a brown thumb we aquired a few. After doing some research and some suggestions from friends I met on the sight we will not name. We have been pretty successful in Getting them to grow. Hopefully I can figure out here how to put on s pic or two. We shall see. Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted
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Post by goldie on Mar 17, 2018 7:36:54 GMT -5
What kind of blight are affecting your tomatoes?? Maybe I can help. 🍅 I'm thinking perhaps snow and ice...? lol RJ, LOL, LOL! So true. See, that's what I'm talking about. It's like we're seeing RJ unleashed. Eggman, your orchids are beautiful.
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Post by honeydog on Mar 17, 2018 8:18:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 10:40:00 GMT -5
rjgimp: I found if you use Lime in the ground when planting tomatoes will deter blight Just a teaspoon in each hole will work once you get blight it is hard to rid it. I take all dead leaves and burn them away from the garden. It works
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Post by honeydog on Mar 17, 2018 10:56:21 GMT -5
Well dang it, I just noticed that either a deer or rabbit munched a bunch of branches off my new Bridal Veil bush over winter. I guess I'll have to put chicken wire around it next year.
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Post by woe on Mar 17, 2018 13:04:38 GMT -5
I can't wait for the snow to go away in the back yard to see how bad the vole situation is.
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Post by rjgimp on Mar 17, 2018 14:06:23 GMT -5
rjgimp: I found if you use Lime in the ground when planting tomatoes will deter blight Just a teaspoon in each hole will work once you get blight it is hard to rid it. I take all dead leaves and burn them away from the garden. It works We burned wood when I was a kid and whenever the woodstove got cleaned out the ash got spread out in the garden to be plowed under in the spring. We'd also bring over some buckets of 'goodies' from the cowyard at my uncle's farm down the road. Them was the days! In it's heyday our garden was somewhere between about 1/3 and 1/2 an acre. Probably 20% each was dedicated to potatoes and sweet corn, 10% each or so to tomatoes, peas, and green beans. The rest was a variety of melons and usually some ground cherries. Apart from that we also had nice large beds of strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, and grapes. I don't ever really recall contending with any plant diseases. Some years things just generally didn't grow well but that was probably due more to late spring and/or early fall.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 17, 2018 14:48:13 GMT -5
Those that used to heat w/coal would spread the ash in their garden soil and mix it in. My dad's pal grew enormous tomatoes just outside of Boston using coal and wood ash along w/ground up eggshells mixed in the soil. The potash grows the fruit larger, and the eggshells add rich amounts of calcium to firm up the fruit, which keeps longer.
Love the read on the baking soda. TY honeydog!
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Post by goldrose1 on Mar 17, 2018 16:38:20 GMT -5
Well Cindy and u are going to the city today to a orchid show. We went for the first time last year and even though Cindy has a brown thumb we aquired a few. After doing some research and some suggestions from friends I met on the sight we will not name. We have been pretty successful in Getting them to grow. Hopefully I can figure out here how to put on s pic or two. We shall see.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Mar 17, 2018 17:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by goldrose1 on Mar 17, 2018 17:59:48 GMT -5
Well Cindy and u are going to the city today to a orchid show. We went for the first time last year and even though Cindy has a brown thumb we aquired a few. After doing some research and some suggestions from friends I met on the sight we will not name. We have been pretty successful in Getting them to grow. Hopefully I can figure out here how to put on s pic or two. We shall see. These buttons work differently at night than they do by daylight? :-) Oh, ancient/flakey keyboard. Cleaning it no longer helps. still needs to be planted.
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Post by goldrose1 on Mar 17, 2018 18:01:11 GMT -5
Well Cindy and u are going to the city today to a orchid show. We went for the first time last year and even though Cindy has a brown thumb we aquired a few. After doing some research and some suggestions from friends I met on the sight we will not name. We have been pretty successful in Getting them to grow. Hopefully I can figure out here how to put on s pic or two. We shall see. Nice pics. Really nice plants. Sharing your secrets here?
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Post by goldrose1 on Mar 17, 2018 18:30:23 GMT -5
Noticed in profile that you can add a location. Put mine in.
Knowing where someone is will help me better understand talk about planting, length of season.
Like to figure when to plant to get tomato for July 4th. I'm gonna borrow that excellent objective! Thx.
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Post by goldrose1 on Mar 17, 2018 18:32:45 GMT -5
Well dang it, I just noticed that either a deer or rabbit munched a bunch of branches off my new Bridal Veil bush over winter. I guess I'll have to put chicken wire around it next year. Bridal Veil doesn't winter outside, in my location.
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