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Thanks seysonn! That may be it! I just checked out some pics of immature peppercorn flowers and foliage and it looks similar.
Strange that it got mixed in with the capsicum annum seed pack. And stranger that I didn't notice I was planting A PEPPERCORN. Maybe it fell in the germinating cup or something and I just didn't notice.
Is peppercorn even worth growing (especially in an Earth Box)?
I zoomed in on the bottom and it might be an optical illusion, but I see a hole with two borers.
That said, it may just be an illusion since it's not clear. Especially since I have SVBs on the brain after the one got flushed out of the bore hole the other day while I injected BT.
I've had my RQ tassel at the heights you indicate and continue to grow upwards while forming the ears. I'm curious, nc-crn, do you mean the red coloring or the odd kernel placement(which also happened on my RQ)? Anyway, I'm not wedded to the idea that it's just mislabeling, it was just very striking how much like RQ those plants look.
I'm not very familiar about the planting time for garlic. If you have standing water in wintertime, I suggest that you make some raised strips with walk and drainage channels between the raised strips through the field. The raised strips could be augmented with some organic matter. The dirt for raised strips simply comes from the channels.
Daikon radishes [tillage type] is my favorite cover crop and it winter kills here, but probably not out where you are, so you might have to mow and till it in spring.
Not an expert but heres my expereience:
Some carrot varieties keep better than others. I grew nutri red carrots this year and last and find that they dont keep well. They go soft quickly (im talking just a couple of hours) and look a bit like yours in the photo. The orange ones kept much better. And yes, if you cut off the tops and store them in a cool place, they will keep much better.
I had three zucchini plants that did the same thing this spring. In the case of my plants, I'm pretty sure what happened was that we had some brief cold temperatures early in the season that nipped the growing tip, so the plant grew two stems below the damage. I would think this could happen because of mechanical damage, too, although mine was definitely weather related.
None of my double-stemmed plants produced well. I don't remember if I even got a single squash from any of them. If you still have time, I'd replant. If not, I guess you could try cutting one stem back - after my experience it seems like it would be no great loss.
But maybe others have had better luck?
This is the recommendations for Santa Clara County, which is mostly Zone 9
Here is a link that might be useful: Planting Calendar
Those Burpless Cucumbers are a fabulous variety. My favorite cucumbers that I grow each year and have for years. But no pollination problems here as I always grow other varieties of cukes also.
If you want to try an all female variety of cucumbers that does not require any pollination to set, try Camilla. Developed for greenhouse growing but grow perfectly fine outside in the garden.
The problem is that people didn't know they were getting an all-female variety. I'm looking in the official Burpee catalog they sent out this year and the description for Sweet Burpless Hybrid reads:
"55 days. Sweet, mild-tasting, 10" fruits on high-yeilding, disease-resistant plants."
Burpee is not describing this variety correctly. There are now 4 people in the past few days having issues with this variety of cucumber.
Rodney
Thank you for all of there at ideas!
Thank you for all of the great ideas!
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