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Not in my case wertach. Don't get me wrong -- we have many, many microclimates in SoCal. But, the town that they(TWC) forecast is right next to mine. Same valley, same temps, same everything. Both cities are on the local weather broadcasts, but the only thing that ever changes is a degree now and then. In fact, the place that they do their readings is at an airport on the border of the 2 cities.
Kevin

yeh i'm 67 and my wife tells me dearest if you walk outside and get wet it is raining, sunburnt then put a hat on.
me with all this science implanted into such a simple affair, her advice will do me.
enjoy
one day we may return to observation and common sense, in our area early in the year in a dry spell the official rain guage recorded 50mm of rain but no one in our area had had rain, weather reporter copped heaps of flack that he didn't realy deserve.

hnycrk, you said " I shoveled dirt, well mud from the center of the rows"
As Dave said, You probably did more damage than good. As close as that corn is planted you were digging feeder roots up with that mud!
Have you ever tilled between the rows after the corn was over a foot tall and saw that the corn kinda slumped for a few days?
That is because you are cutting roots!
OP, IMHO, It is best to just leave it alone. I always have and my neighbor didn't. He would get out there and try to straighten it up and stuff and mine would always do better.
If we didn't have a high wind storm and he didn't have to "fix" it we would usually have about the same yield.
I learned that from an old farmer that new his stuff, My Dad!
This post was edited by wertach on Sat, Jun 29, 13 at 14:20

Well hopefully I didn't do to much damage. When I say center of the row I meant between the rows because I grow it in raised rows 3ft apart. Here's an older pic to show what I mean between the rows like where all the water was. Ill keep y'all posted on the outcome.





I've had to hand pollinate summer squash, and it's more difficult once the male flower closes. You can try, but your success rate will probably be higher if you can catch male and female flowers open at the same time. I found this conversation on the Asian Vegetables forum that might be of use.
-Anne

Another Milwaukee gardener. My toms and peppers are are flowering and have plentiful fruit but my plants that are not in raised beds are not pleased! My watermelons are basically in a puddle and my cukes are dead.
Oh... but the weeds are happy. Very, very happy.

Edible yes. Worth eating probably not. It was designed as a pollenizer first and foremost.
Here is a link that might be useful: Ace watermelon


Thanks :). My spinach got big and bolted before I had a chance to pick from most of it. I planted a little too late. So I have big plants that were not picked from that I want to save the seed from. Same happened to my bok choy. I didn't pick any of that. It grew great in the fall but planting in the spring didn't work for me. It flowered and now has pods.


Well, wash off what you have on there now.
It's not milk AND baking soda--- it's either OR. 1 part milk to 10 parts water.
or
1 TB baking soda and 1 tsp insecticidal soap to a gallon of water
Here's some more info.
Kevin
Here is a link that might be useful: Powdery Mildew


Thanks for your reply. I think that your right about not making any ears. I have enough to run a trial, I cut some out and leave some to grow to maturity. if your interested I'll let you know the results. By the way, I didn't know that they had an official name, tillers. Never too old to learn.


I have trouble every year with powdery mildew. This year I even had it on the butternut squash in the greenhouse. I read an article about using milk mixed at a rate of 1 part milk 3 parts water and it was more effective than synthetic fungicides. So I gave it a try. It worked. Three applications. First two three days apart, third one week later. gone. I did loose some leaves but the new leaves look ok. I'm going to do a weekly spray in the garden and see what happens this year. It is rumored to help with fungi on other plants too. Tomato blight, black sooty mildew. There are a lot of articles on the internet The one I read said most effective at 19% milk or higher for the mix and skim milk works as well as whole milk. If I can find the article I will post the url


Try Googling ~ Laserboy532 site:.gardenweb.com ~ if you want a different ordering of results.
I would be interested in reading if you find that better, worse or just different than searching here as some similar forums such as SDMB are now urging users to do Google searches.
Thanks albert, I tried that method, but didn't find it any more convenient than using GW's search.
But I do appreciate learning yet one more neat Google 'trick' =)