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Fertilizer question
Hi I have 3 Raised beds. 1 with beetroots and carrots, 1 with lettuce and other salad leaves (mizuna, corn salad, rocket, oriental mustards) and 1 with corn and french beans. I poured in loads of...
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What's eating my strawberries?
Something is chewing on my strawberries. I have chicken wire cages covering the plants so I don't think it's birds or groundhogs that are doing the damage. I've also been spraying them with neem....
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No tomatoes
Just one small tomato and one plant that looks like it has some "buds", many flowers still. My gardening neighbor has many fruits on his. We have some of the same varieties. That makes me wonder why,...
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What in the hell is eating my chilli plant seedlings?
I currently live in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. I have just started, or rather well on the way to having, a good garden on the go. Managed to get toms to start, peas, beans, corn,...
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extremely prolific pepper for the pepper challenged?
I've tried growing pepper plants, and never had much luck with them at any of the 3 different properties where I've lived in Ohio. (NW & SW) I've used plenty of composted cow manure, mulched the...
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Is this watermelon ready to pick (picture included)? newbie here
this watermelon ready to pick? Planted this from seed around easter in the middle of south carolina. The thing that's confusing me is that the underbelly is already yellow (which i've read means it...
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Getting ready for next year
I'm up in zone six. While this year it's not going to happen, I'm planning on getting a vegetable garden set up for next year. The backyard is shaded with a couple of large trees, and I know I have a...
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I killed my tomato plant
This is a first for me. I planted a yellow pear tomato, and I remembered reading that you are supposed to plant them deep. It was about 9" tall to begin with, and I planted it with about 4" sticking...
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Heirlooms and food good read
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Tomatoes
I have a tiny garden, actually one bush tomato in a 10 gallon pot. Well I'm fed up with the commercial tomatoes, year after year I get nothing! This year instead of an indeterminate I went with a...
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Onion sets
A few of my onion sets have sent up flower stalks. Should I pull them now for green onions, or will the bulbs continue to grow? (I know they won't keep if I harvest them in the fall) Next year I'll...
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Trying something different
We have 10 year established beds, heavily amended with organic matter, lava sand, green sand, soft rock phosphate and organic fertilizer. After reading how buying tomato starts which can be...
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Can I plant tomato seedlings right into the ground?
I usually plant tomato seeds in peat pellets, then pot up to 2" peat pots, before finally transplanting them outside. This year many of my young tomato plants died, so I started a new batch in peat...
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Cucuber V gourds
I have made a bit of a error. I planted several pots of cucumber and gourds few weeks ago which are all growing well and now need to be planted out, only problem is I do not know which is which ( I...
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Okra
Glad I didn't get far enough with my gardening Memorial day weekend to get the okra sown because it's turned cool and wet again. So I need to wait for the soil to warm back up. I've grown okra up here...
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