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That quality question is a sticking point. I've been looking since last year. And I too found hoots of search hits, but it was kind of a wasteland. Many were no longer active. Others just junk, etc. It seems like surely there should be some good ones out there!

As with so many things in life, it is often difficult to find any correlation between quality information and personal opinion. :)
As with YouTube gardening videos, each reader has to evaluate the credentials of the blog author (if any ever provided) and determine if any personal agendas are coloring the information provided. Then you still have to take it all with several grains of salt.
Dave

LOL Deeby. Your comment reminds me of the California cheese commercial (happy cows make better cheese) with the earthquake. Typical Californians making fun of our natural disasters.
Here is a link that might be useful: Happy Cows Earthquake Commerical

You were right, loribee2; I checked with my son (in Berkeley) and he says it's been about 10 years since anyone felt a bump or rattle.
Here's the 2014 list of hurricane names, though, just in case you want to follow them from your west coast perch, the way I follow earthquake tremors (online, on a weather site) from the east coast:
Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gonzalo
Hanna
Isaias
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paulette
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred
Carol (not a hurricane)


I too have seen no females all season! been like 3-4 weeks and all male flowers every few days, until this past weekend when i saw ONE female starting to grow ( hopefully will flower soon). i really hope my zucchini plant doesnt produce only 1 fruit all summer lol

Mine are golf-ball sized at best. They emerged only in late May and early June, thanks to an extremely cold spring and a very late thaw. A full ground thaw occurred at my place only in late May and in some other people's farms it wasn't until June.


As least for purple asian eggplants, if you wait until they're full sized, they'll be soft but have noticeable seeds. If you're going to broil them or stir fry them, I'm not quite sure why you'd want them to be soft. They'll soften up nicely just by being cooked.


Yes, I grow both Ace and Lipstick. The Lipstick never poses a problem, though admittedly, they are smaller sweet peppers and grow pointy (like lipstick) so I think they slide out from the "Y" as they grow.
The Ace, I've learned, definitely can't be trusted to grow unattended. Most likely because of their shape, they are constantly wedging themselves in the crux of branches.


My jug of Neptunes Harvest FE & Seaweed Liquid Ferilizer says:
Use 1/8 Cup (1 fl. Oz. or 2 Tablespoons) per gallon of water. Feed vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs every 2-3 weeks. Apply until soil is saturated or as a foliar feed until leaves are wet, top & bottom. It is best to foliar feed early or late in the day.
So unless your mix is a lot stronger than Neptune's Harvest, I would double the dose. When I water with the mixture I do it until the soil is saturated around the plant. Depending on how wet the soil already is, that could mean a gallon or more per plant.


UPDATE:
Too much watering was definitely the problem. I watered the eggplants about 1-2 times a week or not even if it's been raining quite abit.
Now the fruits have been setting and growing nicely can't wait to harvest!
Thanks again Dave




asparagus should be top dressed with a couple of inches of manure every year so building up the soil is probably fine. you might want to do the whole 5 in over 2 yrs. soil for asp really cant be too rich.