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Fish emulsion is one of, if not the most benign supplements out there and it is honestly almost impossible to overdose with it (unless perhaps you used it daily). Not only is it a low dosage of the primary nutrients but it is in a form that encourages a slow and only-as-needed absorption by the plants. Plus it has the advantage of multiple levels of dilution. As many of the past discussions here about it show, many gardeners use it diluted to 1/4 strength each time they water plants or 1/2 strength every 10-14 days.
Lots of discussions about using fish emulsion
On the tomato growing forums it is often recommended as a foliar spray as well as a root drench with no concerns. So unlike many of the mass market synthetics used to excess by so many, fish emulsion has few if any negative side effects (other than odor).
Dave
I've grown potatoes in grow bags. 14" wide seems a little small, but that pic seems fine. It will look crowded, but you will get a lot of small potatoes. That is okay, you will get potatoes. Maybe 3 small seed potatoes should have been the max. Steal some out of the dirt after they flower, eat them new. You could try pulling up one of the groups after they flower and eat the small new potatoes, with the idea of letting the others have space to get bigger. Not sure it will make any difference, but you could try that and see what happens.
So when do you start picking your peppers - in March?) I don't think so. I start my peppers in late Feb- early March, to start picking at the end of June. I pick them till first frost in October. Keeping in mind I only have 6000 sq foot yard, that also includes house, 2 sheds, 8 dwarf trees, few berry bushes and other veggies I can't plant more then 30 peppers. And I need about 10 5-gallon buckets to be picked by the end of the season for my canning/freezing needs. This is why I start them early, and plant them out in late May with almost every plant having several peppers on it. But that comes with the cost - when I start them, they have all the room and air they need. By the end of the "in house" period, it is jungles there. If weather is not cooperative to move them out to portable greenhouse I set on the deck(only unused space in my yard) like this year - we struggle. But anyway, it worse it, as they start producing much earlier and give me more for the season. Actually, even powdery mildew doesn't set them back much. So short season in zone 5 is comparing to warmer zones, where you can start your plant a month before transplanting without worrying about PM in crowded environment and still get good crop for the season.
I'm shocked to see some of the comments here on castor seeds being poisonous. Growing up in the Caribbean we picked the pods and laid it out to dry just to hear it pop and see the seeds fly out. Now that I'm older and trying to adopt a much healthier lifestyle I have been using oils such as castor oil, rosemary oil to name a few for my hair. It does wonders for my hair and scalp, no itching no dandruff and promotes great hair growth as it helps with circulation . Picked some pods just this morning. Rastafarians have been using it for centuries in their hair and to oil their bodies after a shower. I also know that fresh pure castor oil can be ingested to purge and it works immediately too. Someone mentioned on this forum it's cheap. Let me tell you good pure castor oil is not cheap you can easily pay a good US$50.00 or more for a liter. I know that pharmaceutical grade is available as well and seem to be a little more affordable but I don't use it.
Hello in Greece there is a variety of White Eggplant that matches your description.
This is it.It grows only in Santorini Island and it is the most delicious kind of eggplant you can find in the country.People cook this for centuries.
I'll try to upload some more in order to recognize it and come to a conclusion.
Can I ask where you got the plant and what makes you think that vendor would be selling the ornamental (aka inedible) variety? Can't imagine why any 1/2 way reputable vendor would even be selling them much less selling them labeled as White Beauty. If you contact them surely they could easily assure you that it is the standard edible eggplant variety.
Dave
What is the opinion as far as more plants tighter together, like 8" apart compared to plants spaced further apart? Would 12" apart still allow proper pollen distribution and have proper ears, and maybe a second ear? Or the tight spacing is shown to work best to get one good ear pollinated for most stalks? I guess I trying to find the right balance for quality, to make sure I get some good ears.
12" apart would be fine. On a very small plot, you should shake the plants to ensure pollination anyway. Though you'd be able to get more plants, and hence more ears, at 8" apart. For me the reason to plant them further apart would be drought resistance, not second ears.
I am correct in my identification, correct? These eggs are behind every chard leaf. and my poor cucumber plants are being eaten before they can grow :( they ate up all the spinach as well. the chard is thriving and growing, but i worry they will eat the plants before the plants can outgrow them. 1st pic is what i think is the leaf miner. 2nd is eggs and 3rd is my cucumber plant. (pics might post in reverse order) The spinach is all eaten up too.
You are right that those might be leafminer eggs but they could also be sawfly eggs and the damage in the first pic is not leafminers but sawfly type damage. Their larve eat the entire surface of the leaf and do not reside within the leaf tissue itself like leaf miners do. Sawfly larvae are much more of a threat than leaf miners.
Sawfly controls include DE diatomaceous earth and Spinosad.
Dave
There are a lot of wild plant that are not only good, but good for you.
But some are only good in small amounts, others will kill you if eaten uncooked, other are fine cooked. Poke weed young leave have been eaten as cooked greens for 200 years that we know of, but the whole plant is poisonous & the root is deadly.
So you have to know what you are doing to eat in the wild.
Peterson guide to Poisonous plants is a good guide to what not to eat.
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles; A One-Volume Edition of Free for the Eating and More Free-For-The Eating Wild Foods. Paperback – June, 1972
I have this book & it is good.
There are many good books on what to eat raw & how & what to cook.
Dandelion is very high in C, but if you eat it at every meal for months it could make you sick!
When I taught a poison plant class for BSA group.
I would say if you do not know then it is Poisonous.
But to day I say Google it, research it for yourself, buy a book or take a class.
Check out Green Dean's website. He has some great info on edible weeds.
I didn't know what they were called, but yes, they will develop roots if you pull the soil up around them. Or if you transplant them in deeply, these will grow roots. Transplant deeply only if you'rei in the deep south were the soil temps are warm. If not, do like z7_Arkansas said and plant them with the stem horizontally. I've done this with leggy tomatoe plants I bought late and they turned out just great.
About 200 plant will not grow close to walnut trees, tomatoes, roses.
But many trees & plants will:
vegetables?:
GOOGLE is a wonderful thing!
The largest organism alive is not the blue whale but a slime mold. I forget which forest it is in.
Yes, slime mold... have put my hand in many a pile of that stuff collecting firewood while doing primitive camping... like a handful of squishy snott...