Guess I got a little carried away.
Pink Girl -36
Purple Cherokee - 36
Goliath - 12
Golden Jubilee - 12
Celebrity - 24
Roma - 36
Super Sweet 100 Cherry - 12
Yes, the Romas are for all things sauce/paste/powder.
Let’s see those gardens now!
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Guess I got a little carried away.
Pink Girl -36
Purple Cherokee - 36
Goliath - 12
Golden Jubilee - 12
Celebrity - 24
Roma - 36
Super Sweet 100 Cherry - 12
Yes, the Romas are for all things sauce/paste/powder.
DoubleRidge
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I can wrap my mind around all of the ones listed...except the 12 Sweet 100...I grew 4 one year and it was unbelievable how many cherry tomatoes those 4 plants made...I cant imagine having 12!! Wow!!
Guess I got a little carried away.
Pink Girl -36
Purple Cherokee - 36
Goliath - 12
Golden Jubilee - 12
Celebrity - 24
Roma - 36
Super Sweet 100 Cherry - 12
Yes, the Romas are for all things sauce/paste/powder.
Yeah, they produce a lot. We had 12 last year and gave a lot away. Everyone really likes them.
I put 2 out. I eat those cherry tomatos like grapes, love em also got 15 san marzano and 5 early girl plants
been a good year for tomatoes. deer got my hort beans before i got my fake fence up so i had to replant. crab and dallas grass is the devil. i usually do no till but has to do some tillage this year due to no planting any covers last year. also late getting started due to rain, around 2nd week in may.
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MickThompson
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Ugh. Gone most of a week and come back to crabgrass
hoghunter65
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I'm cooking corn on the cob out of the garden this evening, to go along with pinto beans and cornbread
I loaned my tiller to my neighbor last fall and it came back broken. Last time I will loan it out. Due to that any some work trips, I was only able to put out a few tomato, pepper and cucumber plants. And the deer have eaten all of that to the ground. No fresh makings for me this year.
Savage
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Very jealous of some of you. We went from getting 1/2 acre of rain/ day to getting nothing for 4 weeks until last night. Hopefully this pattern changes!!
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We didn't do a garden this year due to so many obligations. My motto is you can't ever have too many maters ! Looks awesome guys.
east_tn_gk
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Moonman
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I'm in the same boat on cukes. The deer ate them up when they about an inch but the rest is doing good.
Romas are blushing. Second round of beans coming up. Peach trees are looking good. Apple trees are recouping from the cicadas and japanese beetles. Herb garden is going strong. Just freeze dried 5 trays of basil.
God is good!!
God is good!!
Creek bottoms
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Squirrels are robbing me blind on tomatoes. My son wounded one with a pellet gun and my Feist was all over it. She can't keep up!
big difference two weeks can make
of course it never fails for a storm to tear some stuff up
DoubleRidge
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I was watching our garden out the window yesterday hoping the wind wouldn't cause to much damage...it got rough for about 30 minutes...getting a ground soaking hard rain in our location now...certainly wont have to water anything for a few days.
Terrier
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Looks great!
Japanese beetles can be controlled but putting out Milky Spore. It's a fungus carried in a chalk medium that you put on the ground that only affects the grubs of the Japanese beetles. I had a TERRIBLE infestation when I moved to my farm in 2014. Tens of thousands of 'em.
I applied milky spore around 2016 to about two acres that were around the house and gardens, and within a few years, there were no more Japanese beetles. NONE. Zero. Nada. It's purported to continue working for decades before retreatment ia necessary.
Get a 40 oz box of powder. That'll cover about two acres or more.
Get a small coffee can and poke some holes in it with an ice pick. Tape it to a five foot stick of 3/4" pvc with the bottom of the can about 3 to 4" off the ground. Load some in the can, replace the lid, and start walking, Lightly pop the stick down on the ground next to your foot once each step you take and make a pattern of dots that are about 3 or 4" In diameter, 3' apart in every direction. Put it everywhere you can stand to on your property. The rain will wash it into the ground and it will start working. When a grub is infected by a spore, that spore will multiply to about a million more, and the spores migrate thru the soil with the movement of the infected grubs before they die, eventually wiping them all out. Takes a couple years, but it WORKS, and only affects the Japanese Beetle grubs.
You'll be glad you made the effort.
I would recommend using the powder over the granules. It goes farther and is easier to apply. About $70-something for 40 oz
Do a search online for:
ST. GABRIEL ORGANICS Milky Spore Powder 40 oz.
Terrier
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Note the two white spots in the photo below... that's all the milky spore powder you need to apply per spot, but walk a grid pattern over your whole area and place the dots about that far apart in all directions. It can take a bit of walking, but it's well worth the effort to put it out everywhere you remember seeing Japanese beetle damage or the bugs themselves. It helps if you do it all before it rains on it, so you can keep track of where you've been already... (my leg is in the pic for scale...)
Thanks much for the info!!
