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I am envious of you guys. The house I bought I am having to get the rest of the yard under control before planting a garden. Going to try and start a grapevine I the next couple of days though.
 
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Got banana peppers, onions, broccoli, cabbage, cukes, squash in the raised beds, 12 better bush tomatoes, 4 roma tomatoes, three rows of snap beans, 4 bell peppers, 4 jalapeno pepper, more onions in the garden. The better bush tomatoes are loaded with medium sized, one just about ripe. Ready to chow down. Posted this in the Four Blooms thread too.
 
Just about everyday. Sometimes twice. Everything is taking a good hold so I'll let up on the watering some and drive the Roots down.
 
We waster the garden a couple times a week if it does not rain. The raised beds water themselves so we fill them at least once a week.


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I think I've been overwatering.

Peppers are getting light.

Gonna throttle back on the water, maybe every three days or every other.


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If they are getting yellow, yeah slow down a bit. My eggplant got too much rain and looks terrible. If they get weak the bugs will start on them.


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I think you get a lot of Leaf production, and less fruit. I read it's recommended to cut the watering down when fruit production starts to make full flavored fruit.


This Morning Pics.

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To be honest, google the plant symptoms. A lot of yellowing is over watering. But it can be other things too. And each plant can react differently to water, stress, and bugs. I've got a powder fungus issue on my bush pickle cucumbers right now. Too much water, low ground cover plant, probably not enough full sun. So I'm treating them a couple times a week until it's gone or they are dead.

Eggplant hates water, I planted my after some rain then it rained more. They are yellow, bugs are starting on them, I don't have hope but we are trying to save them. But they are awfully weak. They would do better in a raised bed.

Tomatoes need consistent water when they start bearing fruit. Too little calcium will lead to blossom end rot, you loose fruit. But too little water during production leads to split fruit. The dry makes the skin tough, then the rain makes the plant boost production, skin splits open. Then the bugs get it.

I've gone away from 10-10-10 fertilizer. I use lime and bone meal on most plants. Lime can go in the hole. Bone meal goes in a hole about 6" away from the roots. For Tomatoes I add Calcium Nitrate in another hole about 6" from the roots. The Calcium will burn them up you plant the roots in it. I over fertilized the cucumbers with 10-10-10 and nearly killed all of them this spring. That's when I switched. Added a good dose of chicken litter in too and working on getting my composting up to speed and usable. I'll get some pics later, things are going gangbusters in the raised beds.
 
Anyone know if it will be too late to plant first week of June? I have held off because we will be out of town for a while end of May and everything might die.
 
Anyone know if it will be too late to plant first week of June? I have held off because we will be out of town for a while end of May and everything might die.

From seed? Depends. Check the seed info for harvest times then compare that to frost times. See if you can manage. Maybe start from plants if it's slightly too short. Being mid state will help. But you will also be fighting the heat to get them established.

Fwiw I just started some tomatillos and cucumbers to sprout. It's late but I hope to be ok. I won't start okra until the end of the month. They like heat.


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Got some pics. We rolled the dice and started early.

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Peppers and cucumbers up front. Zucchini in the middle. We will be picking some very soon. I'm hand pollinating them this year.

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Eagle beans. Flowering so we are close.


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Kale in the shady garden.

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Any one know where I could get some ghost pepper plants, preferably around or near Charlotte? I ordered some back in April and still have not gotten them. I am trying to get my money back now.

Beware Ghostpepperfarms.com.
 
Any one know where I could get some ghost pepper plants, preferably around or near Charlotte? I ordered some back in April and still have not gotten them. I am trying to get my money back now.

Beware Ghostpepperfarms.com.

Got any small local hardware stores? Most of them carry some plants. Peppers grow so slow trying from seed is not going to do much. You pretty much have to start peppers in January.
 
I don't know if this is the right thread to ask in, but does anyone on here grow grapes? I am of a mind to get a vine started since my backyard is mostly hill and gets a ton of sun.
 
I've been late this year, but my squash and zucchini are coming along nicely. Just planted green beans and okra last week and all this rain has caused them to shoot up. Never got around to getting tomatoes, but my parents are about to separate plants (from 5 gallon buckets) so I'll take some of the ones they separate off. Thinking about building a potato box. Anyone ever tried one? Am I too late? I've got enough lumber sitting around to make one, but am wondering if it's worth the effort to try growing them for this year.
 
@sr30 we don't cut anything off ours. Just let them grow. Keep an eye out at the base for squash borers. They look like Soldier bugs but kill squash and zuchinnin by boring into the base of the plant. You can see holes in it, or it gets dry and dusty looking from dying off. When you get them bad you might as well pull the plants. They usually don't last long once it warms up. I'm spraying mine at the base regularly to keep them at bay. I have some ladybugs on order too that eat the eggs and young.

Looking good though.

We picked and ate our first zucchini the other day. Ohhhh, it was good.
 
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I ask because I was wanting to keep them out of the tomatoes.

They stems may not get much longer if IIRC from the last garden I had, just more numerous.


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Looks like they are mostly growing in the other direction anyway. A couple wouldn't hurt. The only times we remove them is if they are broken, dead, or dying. And since the tomatoes are taller they won't be competing with them for sunlight. Probably more or an aesthetic problem than a real problem. Our beans and zucchini have covered the walkway between them at this point. Not terribly unusual here.
 
Looks like they are mostly growing in the other direction anyway. A couple wouldn't hurt. The only times we remove them is if they are broken, dead, or dying. And since the tomatoes are taller they won't be competing with them for sunlight. Probably more or an aesthetic problem than a real problem. Our beans and zucchini have covered the walkway between them at this point. Not terribly unusual here.

Thx for the tip


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Welp spring piedmont monsoon season 2.0 has officially ended my bid to plant sweet corn. Thought about still putting in some bush beans but at this point idgaf if it happens or not. Swear Im building a 100x30ft greenhouse next year....

Pic was from about last week in between showers when the tires barely made it out of the slop. Shouldve just left the clover and oats for wildlife
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Welp spring piedmont monsoon season 2.0 has officially ended my bid to plant sweet corn. Thought about still putting in some bush beans but at this point idgaf if it happens or not. Swear Im building a 100x30ft greenhouse next year....

Pic was from about last week in between showers when the tires barely made it out of the slop. Shouldve just left the clover and oats for wildlife
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Nice old school tiller.
 
Nice old school tiller.
Thanks. Was a rescue from an old friends who bought it new in 83. Repowered with a 5hp tecumseh I traded a brick of 22 for several years back. Gearbox internals look nearly new. Changed the wheelseals but she really needs tires...original turf tires suck
 
Had to come post this. I'm a fan of knives. Don't have piles of them, but I like them. Of all the knives I have, nice kitchen knives and small fixed blades this is the one I have to dig out for beans.

One of the oldest memories of my papaw was going with him and mamaw to work the garden. Running around not helping and getting lost in the corn patch. They gardened most of their lives. This knife has trimmed more beans, peeled more apples, and put more miles in papaws pocket than you can imagine. It was about the only thing I got when mamaw passed. Papaw passed years before. It was also one of the first things I asked for. I carried it for years. I called it the boomerang knife. I lost it many times but always went back and found it. It lives in my dresser for fear of it not coming back. But every year this time it comes out to do its old, familiar job. And I always get a grin when I open it up. Papaw would appreciate this.


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I'm getting zucchini and beans should be coming soon, LOTS of flowers. Have several cayenne peppers.


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