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Y'know, well-grown spinach seeds come from big, robust, widely spaced plants that have not been picked from and therefore produce really nice seeds. Saving seeds from randomly bolted spinach plants will not give the same results.

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.

I'll certainly post what it is when I find out. I have other Cucumbers in another part of the property, as well as squash, zucchini and pumpkin.

MYSTERY plant: Probably cantaloupe, squash or melon. Cucumbers have normally sharp tipped leaves. Def not WM.

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

Powdery Mildew.

Milk/water is only good if you've have been spraying regularly before out break.

At this stage I suggest NEEM oil spray.

ed:

Corn that tassels smaller than normal means the growing conditions weren't good enough to grow a big plant. Corn needs lots of water and fertility, mainly nitrogen, to grow well. Small plant equals small ears.

Looked in the whorl and i saw some tassels.

I always leave the tillers.

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 cut away the tomato cage. Hopefully the air helps then instead of making worse faster.

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

I am having this problem as well! My plants are very small and only about 2 weeks old. a short stock with two leaves on each plant. Today it got really hot and all the leaves are pointing straight up as if they're closing. What is this about?

Protection.

Too bad about the dam, but I'll guess you're right about its probable fate.

Looks like a wait-til-next-year situation, unfortunately. If the forecasters are to be believed, it'll rain from now on forever.

This post was edited by ltilton on Thu, Jun 27, 13 at 13:47

Well it's been 2 days. At least there isn't any water flowing from that side of the pond now. There are a few puddles in the garden, but it's not under water anymore. The soil is still sopping wet muck of course. Yesterday the tomato plants looked happy. Today a few of them are drooping a little. I hope they pull through.

Because this was creek water, I'm a little worried about the safety of the tomatoes, assuming the plants survive. We're all on septic systems here. I guess I'll throw away any fruits that were under water. I was doing some reading, and it seems like those above the water should be OK, especially if cooked instead of eaten raw.

The pic and the short video attached below are from Wednesday. In the pic, none of the water you see is the pond, that's all supposed to be lawn. The pond is off to the left side.

Here is a link that might be useful: Flooded Garden

I don't think there are various kinds of pollination, good, bad etc.
My guess (just guess) is that the seed had been crossed. So it has traces of two kinds of squash in it. If it is HYBRID, it has not been fully established. I can see that the two squashes on the vine even have different shapes and the one you've picked has yet another shape.

But the bottom line is getting fruit that taste good. I would not care what shape or color it is.

The one with the round end is good.

The other may be incompletely pollinated, but whatever the reason it was starting to rot on the yellow end.

Wow, that's really nice Rodney!!!

I went out and clipped the bulbils off a couple that were near the tops, and while I was at it I pulled back some soil to see how one of my bigger ones was doing... it doesn't look HALF as big as your last picture.

I can't recall the characteristics of the two kinds I have, but maybe they will never get that big. (Or maybe over time, as I keep amending the soil and selecting bigger bulbs - maybe they will grow bigger after all)

That local farmers market idea sounds like the plan though, if I decide to try my hand at some others, like Hardneck.....

Jerry

uscjusto- The white garlic you find in the supermarket is rather bland. It's amazing how much more flavor and aroma homegrown garlic has. Obviously different varieties have different flavors, some mellow out when you cook them and some keep their punch. As you found out, there are a ton of different garlic varieties.

Jerry- Thanks. It appears that my garlic is a week or two ahead of yours as the leaves of my softnecks are beginning to yellow already whereas yours still look dark green. About a week and a half ago I checked the size of my bulbs and they were maybe half the size they are now. Your garlic just needs time to size up.

I grow Inchelium Red (never had it grow scapes though) and it produces bulbs around the same size as Transylvanian. I poked around in the soil to check and sure enough, they are the same size. So just do as you said, amend the soil and select the biggest bulbs to replant and you'll have nice big bulbs of flavorful garlic.

Rodney

Can't give you any growing tips, but here's something interesting I learned: the prepared wasabi that you buy in the tubes at the grocery store isn't even real wasabi, it's horseradish that is coloured to look like wasabi.

Donna, thank you for the reply. Your are right, horseradish are cheaper than the wasabi so many restaurants use it.

Caelian

In Aug. 1997 I dug up some raspberries and planted them. The person that was supposed to house-sit while I was going on vacation had a last minute impediment and could not come. The rasps went unwatered for two weeks, but it rained, and they all made it. They are very tough. I would keep the pots in shade to minimize stress.

Not sure if I'm understanding your post. Are you saying that where you want to plant these raspberries is in heavy clay that you cannot dig in at the present time? I would think you would have more success if you dig that stuff up and get rid of it, put some decent soil in its place if you want the raspberries to do well.

They are very resilient plants, I agree. I had to rejuvenate the bed once when it was overtaken by quackgrass. Dug up the whole bed and got rid of most of it and took out the weeds...it was a vast improvement.