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Too early to plant your garlic. Plant when you would plant daffodil bulbs.

Plant around October 1st for zone 5

Silvering is just a silvery-colored pattern that appears on the leaf veins of some types/varieties of squash (as you can see in your pic). It's a natural leaf variation. You see it a lot on zucchini.

Rodney

This post was edited by theforgottenone1013 on Sun, Sep 14, 14 at 19:07

Sneed, my DH is a wood carver and the finish they use for their furniture is a "Silvery Weathered" finish. Kind of like our hair! ;) Nancy

Any suggestions for Squirrels ? I started with a deer fence (6') to slow them down but was pretty sure that I'd have to reinforce as the season progressed. First, our raised beds with hardware cloth did a great job of protecting against gophers which destroyed everything last year. As tomatoes began to ripen, friends often mentioned seeing squirrel activity and soon there was a tasted tomato each day, and the number of tasting has continued to increase.

Steps I've taken in defense: 1. put bird netting across top of 6 foot deer fence; 2. Knitted edges of netting together when they found it was easy to go between; 3. Ringed lower part of plastic deer fence with chicken wire to keep them from eating a hole to enter through; 4. Used wolf urine as a deterrent; 5. sprayed tomatoes with hot pepper spray that I made with garden's hot peppers, and 6. I try to plug obvious holes as I plan on a higher fence (our tomato plants are growing to about 6 feet + the raised bed) and either a squirrel proof roofing material, but would prefer a ring of electric fence at the top of the side fencing. SUGGESTIONS ?

If you want to use plain wire and need to see it just tie pieces of old sheet or white to-shirts every few feet. This is what we used to do so the horses could see it, before the invention of tape fencing.
Also, you can use 1" PVC pipe with the bottom sharpened and holes drilled where you run the wire or string through as the PVC works just like an insulator.
I used a solar charger for many years with horses and cattle. Never had a problem.
If the fence isn't very hot water the ground rod, and make sure you have 2-3 rods very deep,in the ground.
Sounds like that fence that burns grass would be a serious fire hazard in dry weather.

Yes after searching and searching I think it is a bacterial rot. I am trying to figure out how long this will persist in my soil, and any way to stop the disease process.

Spring sown kale really doesn't do well through hot summers--and you're zone 7, right? For fall/winter kale, I sow in mid July. And of course, rotate your crops.

Here's the picture.

I don't see another picture. Look up pictures of our native Convergent ladybug to see if that's what you might have. Lady beetles come in a variety of colors. The convergent species is quite orange.

Unless I see a different picture that changes my mind, I still think that you've shown us a ladybug. And they don't chew leaves, so I think that something else might be sneaking in to do that.

If you do take another picture, please show the front of the beetle, especially the pronotum, which is the shield covering the thorax just behind the head. A very identifying feature.

IMHO, your orange mystery squash looks more like the Amish Pie that I have grown than does that striped one in the middle!! Google Amish Pie Squash and look at the pictures, you'll see what I mean. Unless you are saving seeds, I wouldn't worry too much what is what, enjoy the squash that are produced this year, and use fresh seed of known provenance for next year.

Steve

I don't think I can save seeds because I have the spaghetti squash growing with the amish pie pumpkins anyway...

But... very interesting about the pie pumpkins. I ordered from heirloom seeds, which shows a pumpkin looking much like a typical jack-o-lantern type pumpkin. An image search turned up others that look more like my mystery pumpkin. I don't get it, both come from heirloom seed houses, not just random gardeners, so you would think they know what they are talking about and using appropriate photos.

I have a few pounds, Texas or Louisiana Long Hook, Long Horn or a number of names they call them. Old variety from the south. They have been around for many years. When the weather gets hot enough next year you soak them a couple days outdoors, as they will start to stink but when they start to sprout plant them in the ground. The plants get up to 8' or more and reach out a far. I don't plant them too far apart and let their branches reach past each other. If you get any that have shiny smooth skins I would cut the plant down. They don't seem to have a good taste, and when cooked they have a bad smell. The good ones are some of the best tasting okra I have ever had. I found that it doesn't matter how long they grow as long as they are picked by the third day after the blooms fall off.
Let me know if I can be of any help. SESEB
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seen it grown in chico tx...ten to twelve feet tall...old hog pen area...pods very long, needed step ladder to pick....best to pick about 6 or 7 in long....look on ebay for seeds...
heirloomvegetables....leave a few pods on plants in fall, let them dry out real good, save seed for next year...the indian

After reading this post, and taking my walk around the block (2 miles in the country), I did see some great gardens in ground that had some wandering paths through them.
Most appeared to be 4-6' wide, still. I also saw a LOT of gopher damage!
My beds are 4x8 raised with hardware cloth under each bed. Unfortunately, we have such a bad gopher problem for a home garden we HAVE to have raised beds! The cats can only do so much above ground! Nancy

I haven't had much predator damage here. Last year voles/mice were bad in the sweetpotatoes though. This week I have caught 5 in traps.

OP is probably in Montana or Wyoming. Alberta (Canada) got dumped with up to a foot of snow in some places, with lows down to the mid-teens in a few areas.

The weather has been crazy for some of us! Northern WA/ID hit hard frosts. We just got low to mid 30s. Going to be in the 80s/50s in a few days.

Thank you all!

Something in the Rubiaceae, anyway. Mollugo verticillata would fit as would Galium aparine, Cleavers. Just pull it up.

Lady peas are really small. If you want to try small peas White Acre is small but large enough to shell.

Thanks, FarmerDill! If these are indeed lady peas, they certainly are hard to shell. But the seeds are so small I bet they cook real quick even when dried.

Apple and peanut butter has worked some. Peanuts or alfalfa pellets (the horse ones that are made with molasses) are also worth trying if you have some around. I have not found netting to work well, even in relatively small areas; the rabbits are inclined to cause even more damage by digging to get into areas they are interested in. Even though you will not get rid of all the rabbits, you can make a big dent by trapping for a few weeks; the effort is worth it.
Renais

Stick apple slices into the peanutbutter jar?

I have one row where I transplanted lettuce after the spinach had drowned. I noticed a stray surviving spinach plant had been nipped off at the base today. There's also been gnawing on the zukes.