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pnbrown

So no clue about where you are other than z10? Will folks ever realize that socal and sofla are ever so different horticulturally?

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lgteacher(SCal zone 9b)

Thank you for including your summer high temperatures.

It does seem a difficult time to grow cauliflower. Could you put them in a shady place for a while where it will be a bit cooler? You could then put them in the ground next month. The main problem would be that they would bolt before forming nice heads. Since they were free, there's no harm in trying. You could plant a few now and a few next month.

Here is a link that might be useful: What's Growing On?

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fireweed22

Thank you for all of there at ideas!

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fireweed22

Thank you for all of the great ideas!
Darn spellcheck...

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SighBorg

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)?

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fireweed22

Looks to me like one of the many polygonum (sp?) weeds.

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lgteacher(SCal zone 9b)

I had them all over my chives and Swiss chard. I hosed with water, then used insecticidal soap, cut off the most infected parts, and have a clean garden again.

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2ajsmama

Looks like possibly a split to me, like the left hand section of the plant fell over from its own weight and split the base. Just cover it up with soil.

Isn't it strange that these huge plants are so brittle and delicate?

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CaraRose

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.

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sunnibel7 Md 7(7)

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.

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wayne_5 zone 6a Central Indiana

Here's my two cents. The corn looks over-crowed to me. You want thick stalks. Early varieties like Early Sunglo in my opinion are not vigorous enough for stressful situations.

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stuffradio

I would like to grow Garlic in the field eventually. I want to be growing 1,000+ plants.

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wayne_5 zone 6a Central Indiana

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.

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jean001a(Portland OR 7b)

Field crops (carrots and more) are cooled as soon as they are picked/harvested during the cool hours of the early morning..

Cutting off the tops will also help.

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raistlyn

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.

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knlim000(9a)

yet, another pic. cassava or caster beans?

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7

Looks much more like cassava, to me.

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NilaJones(7b)

Thanks, folks!

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Creek-side(5)

I don't use fertilizer, but lately I have found that if you water bush beans every day they well will produce over many, many weeks.

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julia42(9a)

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?

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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)

In CA, zone 9 ??? you can plant just about anything you want, Bro !!

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melikeeatplants

This is the recommendations for Santa Clara County, which is mostly Zone 9

Here is a link that might be useful: Planting Calendar

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newyorkrita(z6b/7a LI NY)

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.

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theforgottenone1013(MI zone 5b/6a)

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

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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)

Why not. It is not going to hurt anything and MIGHT work.
Just put them in blender(with some water) blend and filter(coffee filter ?) and spray. I would even use the pulp as well around the plants. They will smell MINTY too.

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jean001a(Portland OR 7b)

Traps, secured to something heavy that can't be dragged away, work.

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