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I Googled "cabbage root maggot" and I got this Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_radicum
This is exactly what is affecting the plants.
I buried the stems roots with more soil.
it will all break down and be good nutrient, so long as vege's are washed and cooked for first season all other is pure fear hype, why waste money paying lawyers? never makes sense.
these 'taters are on our septic field:
len
Thanks to everyone for their comments and opinions. I did spray the leaves this morning and checked the undersides of the plants. I did not see anything more concerning than what was on the top. I did however see this little guy on one of my pepper plants :)
I've had baby bunnies get through "chicken wire"... I put that in quotes because real chicken wire has openings that are pretty small and the wire is fairly stiff but you can by hex wire netting at garden centers that has fairly large holes and is made of more flexible wire. It was the latter kind I had the bunnies get through. Bunnies really do love bean plants.
A simple partial solution is to simply cover your young bean plants with a floating row cover. If the critters are really hungry, they will get through it easily. But I have found that in most cases, it 's too much work for them and they go to work on the clover in the lawn or other things. Not foolproof but easy and pretty effective. Rabbits don't like the taste of seaweed/fish fertilizers like Neptune's Harvest and others.
Well, I am in your same shoes. I'm 30-something and getting more health conscience. I want my gardening to be more strenuous. I hate using the term exercising. I think it brings back too many memories from the Army! LOL Nonetheless, we need to be physical to stay healthy. I have a small garden and what I do is kind of incorporate "exercise" into being in the garden. For example, when I am picking weeds or turning my soil I do squats. Sometimes, I even do a push-up or two right there in my garden. I don't really think about it when I'm in my garden. When I come in I do feel better though! Just a suggestion to get ya active! :o)
Yeah your plant looks diseased some sort of fungal issue looks like maybe blight if so it's in your soil with that being said in your case you could try spraying chlorothanil if its fungal it should kick it in the butt, if blight good luck you could cut out the bad but unlikely it will recover.
Around here in summer, mid 90s, I water seedlings every 2-3 days. After that about every 6 days for melons but that depends on your soil. Mine do much better planted in a furrow or shallow depression. Planted on top of a bed I can't keep them wet enough for good emergence or early growth.
With your warm and sunny fall weather you probably could wait until early August to plant pumpkin. I guess it depends on whether they must be ripe by Halloween or if you wanted to carry them into November.
I was just looking into three sisters gardens and that is the approach I think I am going to take, the corn could provide some shade, I don't know if pole beans will take the heat but it has worked for centuries so I will give it a go.
Depends on water pressure, the "seepage rate" (don't know the real term, should be on the label, I think it's expressed in gallons per foot per hour or some unit like that), soil and weather conditions. I generally just turn them on and let them run until I have a nicely saturated zone at least a foot out from the plants -- mine is a clay-loam for the most part, water may go more down than out in a sandy soil.
If you use the search to pull up all the previous discussions on using soaker hose you'll find that a common recommendation to determine time needed is to simply bury an empty can - coke can, vegetable can, something about 6" tall.
Bury it along the line of the hose in about the middle of the hose run so the open lip top sits at soil level and the hose runs over it. Time how long it takes to fill the can and that tells you how long you need to run it to get the water down to root level.
It isn't a perfect method because it can't account for your soil type so it won't tell you how often you need to run it. That part you determine with your hand stuck deep in the ground. But it will tell you how long to run the hose.
With soaker hose keep in mind that 50' maximum run is recommended for effectiveness and that the plants at the end of the run get less than the plants at the beginning of the run.
Dave
Are we talking mainly about raw peas or cooked peas. My sugar snaps are quite tasty raw and tasty is properly cooked/seasoned.
Weather has been cool and overcast, not a lot of rain or sun. I am eating them raw but boy are they disappointing!