How does your Garden grow?

turbo

My wife planted Chinese lantern plants in her little rock-walled flower garden. What a miscalculation! That stuff is MEAN! It spreads worse than bee-balm or other mints. If you buy a Chinese lantern plant, be careful where you plant it, because it will be there forever.

Evo

Oh, I had some of those growing as weeds in the back yard of my old house. I could never get rid of them.

turbo

One of our nieces dropped in yesterday and wanted a plant. I warned her, and cautioned her to pick a place far away from any plants that she values.

dlgoff

I only planted one row in my garden this year so I could eradicate the Portulaca oleracea.



It looks like PastureGard^® HL has done the trick. I'll give the garden a light top till and reapply if necessary.

Ouabache

Rather than spray poison. Why not pick them?
Purslane is a wonderful wild edible.
Did you scroll down your link and read about all their culinary uses?

turbo

Pig-weed is impossible to get rid of. It can grow on bare gravel lots with such poor soil....

dlgoff

I'd rather eat the dirt they're grow in.

turbo

Me too. Purslane is not tasty.

dlgoff

This chemical is very potent (1/2 oz/gal) and designed to kill the roots. It's been a week or so and I haven't seen any growing. I'll till the top couple of inches and see if any root nodules sprout. If so, I'll reapply.

Monique

Two weeks later and my orchid flower buds haven't opened yet, what would be a usual timeframe for them to develop?

Does anyone own a ZZ plant? I bought a beautiful big plant, but half the plant has already disappeared due to stem rot and the process is continuing. I tried watering it very little, up to the point that one of the plant's underground water sacks completely dried out. Today I pulled out another stem with rot at the bottom. Anyone with experience? My other plants are thriving.

Andre

That takes indeed weeks. Don't despair yet, if the leaves are still nice and smooth, not wrinkled, it should be okay. Maybe take a picture every few days and compare them to see the changes.

Used to have one, always healthy, it finally outgrew us, so we left it at one of the many moves. I think that rot / mold means a pest, fungi, bacterea, mites, aphids, white fly etc. It could be that the best cure is replacing.

Evo

THEY'RE HERE!!!!!!

AAARRGGHH!!!!!

I found 4 baby hornworms on one of my plants today. Check your plants!!!!!

lisab

Did they look like this?

Evo

yes!!!!

rhody

Funny what peppers are capable of eh ? These are trinidad scorpions, notice how some pods appear stunted and shaped differently, these are very hot.
Unpleasant actually, the burn they leave in your throat is like lava.



And speaking of stunted growth, I am pretty sure these are Brain Strains or Butch t's. Note how the pods don't have placenta or seeds in them. Three people who have tried these stunted beauties said, I almost hallucinated from them, I felt like I left my body about one half hour eating them, and my own observation, I have never seen such heat from such a small package. Beware, these were given to me and the person who gave them to me wasn't sure what they were. The experts at THP clued me in with visual proof as to their origins. Smart folk over there...





I bet some of you have given up on me, the good news is that I haven't given up on me either, just in a big transition in life. When it is all over and settled I will share my journey. It will not be boring I assure you and not without twists and turns. Perhaps some day, my account will help others.

Rhody...

turbo

I have not given up on you, Rhody. We all have our travails. In the last few years, personal health issues, and hatred in my wife's family have stressed me incredibly. My garden is a chance at solace. Even just weeding and hoeing are comforting. This year's green pepper plants are stunted and crappy-looking, but they are producing a wonderful crop of peppers - big and firm.

NeoDevin

I asked my son what he wanted to grow this year, and he answered pumpkins. So I picked up a package of pumpkin seeds (the package said they were supposed to be GIANT pumpkins), and we started 6 of them indoors, before the ground was thawed. Only five sprouted, which we planted in the garden after the chance of frost was passed. Of those, only one survived longer than a week (I think a rabbit or a cat was involved in the demise of three of them, the other one just spontaneously died). The last one has taken over most of the garden (it actually had another branch, bigger than any of these ones, growing into the neighbor's yard, which eventually broke, and they removed for me), and has only just set a single fruit now. The fruit is looking a little yellow, so I don't know if it will keep growing or not, I hope so.



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