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Where can I get some beneficial nematodes?

There are many suppliers of them online. Google is your friend.

Locally? All depends on what you have available in Ag supplies/feed stores/etc.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: BNNM suppliers

Well, I just went outside to see what the shape of the spots are.....and they're GONE!
No signs of eggs or bugs of any sort (except for a little spider)
I'll keep checking every day, though.
Thanks all. Nancy

Per the reference below, the watermelon contaminating fungus is specific to watermelon.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fusarium Wilt on Watermelon

This post was edited by grandad on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 16:12

My sugar baby just up and died last year without any warning. I wonder if it was fusarium. Had two softball size fruits at the time, too, which were tiny but ended up being completely edible (and delicious).

How about pouring a kettle of boiling water over the stalks after you pull them out? I'd think that would neutralize any pests and help speed decomposition at the same time. Then you wouldn't have to waste the greens because of the eggs.

That's not a bad idea kathy. Fill a 5 gal bucket up with boiling water and dunk the whole plant in it for a few minutes.

Kevin

Here we go, AL. Thanks for clarifying.
When I said it is an over grown zuke, I said it based on the appearance of the fruit and didn't pay attention to the vine. Now we know that there are vining squash too.

Zuccchini are bush plants. There are vining squash that are used as zucchini substitutes. The aformentioned English marrows for example ( rarely see one in North America tho) . Tatume/calabacita is a C.pepo vining squash that is used as zuke substitute. Trombocino (C. moshata) is a butternut type most often used as a zucchini substitute. All of these are winter squash which are used as summer squash. Another zucchini subtitute that is vining is Cucuzza which is a gourd (Lagenaria siceraria). Most winter squash includingthe pumpkin type can be used with varying degrees of acceptance as zucchini substitutes.

Could the first one be sweet potato?

If it starts to strangle things it's morning glory.

Morning glory, not bean. The other is a weed, goes by many names (including the mentioned pigweed) and is a wild amaranth. At least seems most likely from the top angel shots.

I Agree w/Wayne. Unlikely to get a ripe melon. But You can eat small green fruits like cucumber.

No melon plant is going to produce anything in one month. You (and I) planted them about a month late this year. (Assuming your zone 5 is like my zone 5.)

I had snow on May 1, and still had last year's garden standing out there when I started prepping for this year.

I have replanted muskmelons a half dozen times to replace those broken off by wind. Now have some muskmelon vines about 6' long, and blooming. Watermelons are not doing anything. I guess I have disease problems, and should just give up on them.

"Zone 5" does not convey as much information as you may think it does. If you disclosed your location on your home page, you might have a neighbor give you some better information.

cb-garden- your plant was definitely mis-labelled. That looks like a jalepeno to me.

Rodney

@ CB-GARDEN

that pepper , obviously not a bell pepper. As Al said, it is more like jalapeno (or serano). if it does not grow much bigger than that. Try one ! doe it have some heat ?
It is just a mislabeling case.

More Cavilli fruits comming soon!

newyorkrita,

That looks great!! I garden exclusively in containers and raised beds. I cut down on the expense of potting mix by mixing 50% potting mix with pine bark fines and perlite. Dump it all in a cement mix bin and stir with a garden hoe. (well DH does the mixing)

I still need more space for extra containers but DH wants to keep his boxwood bushes.

DL

In general rolly polly/pill bugs eat primarily vegetation that has somewhat started to decay so there may be another culprit with your carrot problem.

Nothing is bothering mine thankfully but the damn cabbage worms are killing my Kale and Collards. Bought some floating row cover for the next crop that I'll plant in August.

Most likely a winter radish. Most of them get large roots. There is a variety (Sakurajima)that can go over a 100 lbs.

Radish for sure.
I also think it is winter/fall radish, since has white flowers. Red radishes normally have pink flowers. Right now I happened to have both of them in my garden. The white flowered one is from last winter's Chinese/ Korean radishes.

Another thing: When radishes bolt they grow quite tall an big.

ltilton, I looked up the tromboncino squash and you're right, it does look like my plant. Time will tell, as you said. I will find it very weird if that's what it turns out to be, as I have never heard of this variety, let alone planted it on purpose! I started all my plants from seeds and all I bought was regular old zucchini seeds, crookneck squash seeds and pumpkin seeds. If it is a tromboncino squash, it would have had to fallen into the wrong package on accident.

OHHH I just remembered that my daughter brought home from her kindergarten class what I was told was a pumpkin plant. This could very well be that plant. I don't remember where I planted it. So if this was a pumpkin, does anybody know which variety it may be? Now I can't wait for it to grow something so I can solve this mystery!

Indeed I have cut myself plenty rummaging around in the garden dirt. However, I don't think my funny-bone got cut on your wit with this thread....

He he. Just talk to them. Play music for them. Calm them down. They're likely getting freaked by overindulgent caretakers.

But the word "stressed" is certainly a funny one for plants. That is, instead of saying that they are starved, drowned, baked, frozen, or poisoned. I guess we could go around to hospital emergency rooms and diagnose the problems we see there as "stress".

I have three of the Burpless Hybrids and checked very thoroughly this morning... no male flowers but a TON of female flowers.

uscjusto - Is your variety perchance the Burpee SWEET Burpless Hybrid?

There are a whole lot of cukes on the Burpee site with "burpless" in their name, but I can't see one specificially called "burpee burpless hybrid." The SWEET burpless hybrid, otoh, is described as having mostly female flowers, ie it's at least semi-gynoecious.