How does your Garden grow?

Julio R

I also live in SFL, I don't have mango, but I do have avocado and it withstood the winds quite well.

ImATrackMan

Tell you what else we have (but really, REALLY don't want)...

Raccoons. Always stealing the low hanging fruit. Sure they're cute, but when the babies take after their parents it's "goodbye ripe mango".

turbo

It's time to prune the fruit trees. I need to be quite diligent about spraying the trees before and after blossoming, so that the birds won't spoil the fruit. I only use canola oil in a hose-end sprayer - no pesticides. Still, that is enough to suppress insect activity so that insectivorous birds won't damage the fruit looking for for bugs to eat.

I won't use pesticides anywhere on my property, but I have to be wary of the huge fields of commercially-grown crops and the large orchards around here. The bugs that come here are already too tough, and the wind-blown pollens are hard to deal with. Got to roll with it.

turbo

My garlic is up, poking through the oat-straw mulch. Looking pretty good.

Evo

I have decided not to attempt a vegetable garden this year, it's cheaper to just buy them and at least I'll have some, what few grew last year were eaten by squirrels.

So, this year I am doing flowers. I just received my dwarf ever blooming day lilies today. I will have to keep the pots covered with metal grates until I get the plants going or the squirrels will dig up the bulbs and destroy them.

Monique

My peach tree still has leaf curl Are there any fungicides effective? The only fungicide I've been able to find in the gardening center is one that treats mildew.

Evo

Copper soap is recommended, if you can find it there.

[quote]All purpose fungicide controls mildew, blackspot and rust. se on ornamentals, vegetables and fruits. Controls peach leaf curl.
Available in concentrate or ready-use-spray.
Contains Copper Octanoate (copper soap)

http://www.greenhousegardencenter.com/green_garden.html

turbo

The peas are in the ground, along with kale, spinach, lettuce, etc. The garlic is coming up nicely through its mulch.

Julio R

I have difficulties with any type of beans, the crows and pigeons find a way to dig them out.

Evo

Darn them, darn them to heck.

dlgoff

The leaf curl fungus needs to be treated with fungicides in the winter, as it lives in the bark and is easier to kill then. Once it's in the leaves, it doesn't do any good to spray with a fungicide. You'll need to treat for several winters to completely get rid of it, from my experience.

Edit: Unfortunately the EPA has banned most of the good stuff but I still have some Zineb. Zinc is the secret.

Monique

Alright, I'll have to live with it until winter comes again then.. Maybe I should just get a new tree.

Today I'll be planting seeds for a whole list of plants: green and gold zucchini, bell pepper, cucumber, cherry tomato, flesh tomato, balcony tomato, watermelon, coriander, Eastern papaver and a mixture of cutflowers.

I don't know how I'll fit them all on the terrace, probably I should buy some pots to put the individual plants in. A friend told me not all produce can be grown next to each, is there any truth in that?

Andre

That's called intercropping or polyculture. But I wonder if all combinations mentioned here are tested used the scientific method.

Monique

Alright, I'll put the cucumber in separate pots then I planted seeds last Sunday and the cucumbers are the only ones sprouting at this moment.. hopefully the other seeds will follow soon.

Astronuc

We are having a cool, dry spring. This morning it was 2 C (36 F). I had to water plants yesterday, but hopefully we will get some rain this week.

Andre

Remember this post.

It looks like this today, before the sun hits it:

dlgoff

Looks like strawberries even after 60mph winds the day before yesterday.