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vgkg(Z-7)

"As a side note, once I dug up the main rows I left intact the trailing vines which re-rooted and now I may have more out there to possibly harvest before first frost. Will wait and see if this is true or not. Be nice to get a 2nd crop even if they are smaller."

Just to update my quote above - Today I dug up those leftover runners from my harvest on Sept 1st and I did get a good 2nd crop after 2 months of decent weather. I est that this 2nd digging was about 40% of the 1st harvest, not bad for just letting them run wild. Half of them are bakers and half are smaller for yam dishes. Next year I may do the same but prep the nearby soil for better re-rooting head start. Hope you all had a good crop!.

    Bookmark     November 1, 2014 at 5:51PM
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jctsai8b(8B)

shayneca25,

How do you cook sweet potato leaves?

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/asianveg/msg0717221413726.html?14

    Bookmark     November 1, 2014 at 7:01PM
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jctsai8b(8B)

http://www.stokesfoods.com/nutrition.htm

Since the Stokes Purple is locally grown in the USA, it is NOT irradiated before it reaches the consumer. Other varieties of purple sweet potatoes that are imported from overseas must be irradiated when they enter the USA. Also, Stokes Purples have not been genetically modified in any way and are classified as Non-GMO sweet potatoes.

Just planted the purple skin purple fleshed sweet potatoes slips ordered from Georges Plant Farm.

    Bookmark     June 11, 2014 at 7:47PM
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jctsai8b(8B)

I dug some of the purple skin purple fleshed sweet potatoes last week, It tastes good to me, next year I will grow more .

    Bookmark     November 1, 2014 at 6:13PM
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SparkleYogi

Thanks for the help! It definitely was red spider mites, once I looked closer I could see them. I mixed up an organic insecticide and it seems to have gotten rid of them but I'm going to keep sprtizing the plant with it for a while.

I live in NYC by the way and have it in a window that gets a lot of sunlight. Before the infestation is was growing quite happily.It has about six tomatoes growing right now. I'm going to try giving it some plant food to help it recover. Wish me luck!

    Bookmark     October 31, 2014 at 12:16PM
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zzackey(8b GA)

I think having it inside causes spider mites for some reason. I've never seen them outside on maters. Try to isolate it from your other plants so it doesn't spread. We always threw out plants at the garden center I worked at that had spider mites. My boss said they were so hard to get rid of.

    Bookmark     November 1, 2014 at 4:26PM
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maddonaperez

Here is interesting story about this

    Bookmark     January 6, 2011 at 5:23PM
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CKBROWN(8B)

You need to learn about onions to grow them.
Look at
http://www.dixondalefarms.com/
click on Learn option near the top
and then look at the online guides, Downloadable Guides
(PDFs) and Frequently Asked Questions. Look at the catalog and learn all you can. Several questions are answered in detail in the guides.

    Bookmark     October 31, 2014 at 9:55PM
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charlieboring

Check the internet for How to Grow Garlic in pots. There are some good videos.

    Bookmark     October 31, 2014 at 9:28AM
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llhbeck

This year I planted a few Yukon Gold in a couple of barrels, They grew well, and died off in mid August. I did not get them harvested, was gone on vacation, plus being tied up with tearing out my kitchen, I just did not get to it. Now in late October they are growing again. Should I just let them grow and when the frost gets them dump them out or dump them out now??? Leaving them in the barrels over winter is not an option as they would freeze.

    Bookmark     October 26, 2014 at 2:20PM
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seysonn(8a WA/HZ 1)

OLD thread:

Potato maturity is very similar to tomatoes. In average it take 90 to 120 days from sowing seeds to harvest.

Now then it depend on where you are. For example, in North GA I used to plant in mid March and harvested around early July. Starting in June, I would reach in and get some young ones for cooking. Then In August I did fall planting.

    Bookmark     October 31, 2014 at 6:14AM
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daninthedirt(Cent TX; HZ10, Sunset z30, USDA z8a)

It seems to me that a little bit of regular soil cultivation, even with a soil rake or a hand fork, would do the job. Wouldn't hurt the veggies you have growing either. Just dig 'em in (the weeds). You do that before the weed roots get deep, and they won't be competing with your veggies.

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 10:20PM
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nancyjane_gardener(Zone 8ish North of San Francisco in the "real" wine country)

I also get big winds from the horse fields next door and don't like to go out during the winter and deal with windblown seed( I just pick the chard,kale,lettuce etc)
I plant 2 of my 8 beds for winter stuff and pile as many shredded leaves as I can, then cover with perforated cardboard so water can get through. Because most of the beds sink a bit, I usually add compost/soil about a month before planting in order to settle.
Cardboard usually lasts me 2 seasons. Nancy

    Bookmark     October 30, 2014 at 9:19PM
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leo42749

2 years ago SVBs wiped out every winter squash and pumpkin vine I planted. So last year I put beneficial nematodes in the garden as soon as the ground warmed up. Last year and this year I haven't lost a single vine.

Next year I'll re-seed the garden with them including some that go after termites and ants.

    Bookmark     October 30, 2014 at 1:28PM
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Peter1142(Zone 6b)

Not cold enough in zone 6b, I had plenty. Hard to believe anything could survive last winter.

    Bookmark     October 30, 2014 at 6:48PM
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zzackey(8b GA)

Flowers and houseplants make me feel the happiest. African violets, amaryllis and dendrobium orchids are my favorite mood lifters. Any plant growing inside lifts my spirits. Some herbs grow well in a sunny window.

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 10:05PM
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Deeby

Understood, and don't worry. Lisa and you have friends here.

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 10:29PM
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BalanceA

I think i started it around very late august or early september but most probably after 25th of august.

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 2:41PM
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RedSun (Zone 6, NJ)

Cuke is not houseplant. The timing is totally wrong. It is not worth the trouble to grow it this way. Search web on growing the cukes...

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 8:50PM
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sunnibel7 Md 7(7)

:) sounds like the perfect antidote to too much gardening! Congratulations!

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 2:48PM
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Deeby

What fun !

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 3:54PM
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7

Yep, mantid ootheca. This would be an unwelcome sight in my garden where the darned things are more interested in bees and butterflies than scrounging around for pests!

Most people are happy to see them, though.

    Bookmark     October 28, 2014 at 10:53PM
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sunnibel7 Md 7(7)

One more for mantis eggcase.

Rhizo- I have a lovely picture of one hanging upside down eating a cabbage moth. Not all butterflies are welcome, after all. :) I've seen the big ones eat grasshoppers who were eating the zinnias and once spied a wee one eating a wee bug... I think what they eat depends on how big they are.

    Bookmark     October 29, 2014 at 10:20AM
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theforgottenone1013(MI zone 5b/6a)

I could have sworn I commented on this a long time ago but apparently not. So here's a short, but long overdue update.

On April 3rd I began keeping the indoor started seedlings outside in a mini-greenhouse. I was bringing them back inside when the nighttime temp was forecast to be below 40*F.

The winter sown seeds that I planted on March 10th, sprouted on April 9th. These remained outside at all times. On April 20th, these nearly died because I accidentally left the cover on the container during a sunny day and forgot to water them but they eventually recovered.

I planted both the indoor started and winter sown plants on May 9th. The winter sown plants were about half as big as those started indoors. Both sets of plants should have been sufficiently vernalized.

The artichokes were growing well but they stalled out about a month ago. I've given them fertilizer but they're still the same size. The two winter sown cardoons I've got planted in the same bed are growing larger and the two rows of beets I planted down the middle of the bed in early June are growing well and nearing harvest. So at least I'll get something from that bed this year.

To be honest, I'm tempted to rip the artichokes out and replant something for Fall. But I also want to see if I can overwinter them successfully. So I'm not sure what to do. One thing I do know for certain is that this is the first and only time I'm planting artichokes. Major waste of space in a small garden like mine.

Rodney

P.S. Congrats to those of you who were successful!

    Bookmark     July 21, 2014 at 2:02PM
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charlieboring

My artichokes did not survive the winter in Northern VA, so I am going to try again this next spring. I intend to start my seeds in mid January in my basement, under lights, no heat pad. Anyone have advice?

    Bookmark     October 28, 2014 at 10:57AM
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Mark(Oregon, Zone 8)

When I sold luffa that I grew to a health food store I charged $2 and they sold them for $3.50. This was probably 15 years ago.
Cleaning the outer shell was my biggest task. I only grew them that one year or i'm sure I would have had to find an easier way to do it.

    Bookmark     October 28, 2014 at 12:02AM
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zzackey(8b GA)

Thanks everyone for the info! I ate some about a month ago. They were very hard to peel and not very flavorful. From what I read you can scratch the skin off after it dries up. No shaking or beating for me. I also read you can put them in water and the skin will explode off. Maybe it had to be hot water? Mine are still green on the vine. I don't plan to bleach them. I'm trying not to make a major Walt Disney production out of this little project. I only have 4 or 5 gourds to sell.

    Bookmark     October 28, 2014 at 8:54AM
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charlieboring

Strawberry patches are good producers for a set period of time (from my experience 3-5 years) and then need to be renewed in some manner. One method is to keep your allium row free of strawberries buy removing invaders and plant your alliums in the same row each year, adding compost and manure as needed. After 3-5 years move the strawberry plants to the allium rows and the alliums to the strawberry rows.

Floral instead of scientific data to indicate "how" the allium/strawberry relation ship works, there is a mountain of experience based information that supports the improved production resulting from the relationship.

    Bookmark     October 27, 2014 at 7:44AM
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rina_

I just thought of it as an experiment - in my case, I have only 4 strawberry plants-not enough to plant a bed. They are everbearing, not producing many runners (I have only 2 runners from one variety).
Garlic bed is ready and wide/long enough to 'tuck-in' few other plants. I would plant strawberries along the edge, far enough not to interfere with garlic.
And final thought - maybe, just maybe the 'smell' of garlic may deter some critters???
As Galina pointed out, I vaguely remember my grandma doing something similar...
Rina

    Bookmark     October 27, 2014 at 9:07PM
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