The Yellow Perfection variety is doing very well. Multitudes of flowers and fruit is just starting to set. The plants themselves are scraggly looking, but otherwise healthy. I have 2 in pots and one in the ground. The one in the ground was chewed in half by a critter, but it just grew along the […]
And I thought the mouse was bad. This is the damage one rabbit did overnight. It appears that only one of these plants has a chance to actually live through this distruction. The others have been eaten almost completely. I put the planter up on bricks, but it was too late. Wylie Wabbit outsmarted me. […]
These are the little darlings I planted a few weeks ago. They are loving the cooler temperatures and get sun up to about 2 in the afternoon. In about a week I’ll plant more. Succession planting is what I’m learning here, so I’ll have a continual harvest, not all at once. And 2 different varieties […]
It would be ideal, but I don’t have a compost pile. I have field mice and critters that would love a winter home like that, so my options are somewhat narrowed when it comes to adding organic matter back into my garden soil. What I have decided to do is to plant a cover crop. […]
Ok, Here are the bell peppers that I’ve experimentally saved from the Spring garden. Usually, when the heat hits and they wilt, drop their flowers and stop producing fruit, I pull them up. This time I cut them back in July to help them survive the heat and just waited. Now, August 18th, they are […]
Here are the broccoli babies I’ve been raising since middle of July. They are now in 4″ peat pots and setting outside on my porch where they get about 2-3 hours of sun per day. They’ve been outside for 2 days now, and will be taking on more and more sun until they can take it […]
Recently, Lamont lost a pepper plant to blight and he reminded me that the Great Potato Famine of Ireland was caused by blight. Then I read an article mentioning monoculture, which is growing a single crop in the same location year after year. (Polyculture is the healthy rotation or mixing plants together, as in companion […]
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Ok, I’m trying to learn something new. My friend Lamont grew an heirloom tomato this spring. I have avoided heirlooms because I thought they were more susceptible to disease, so I waited and watched to see how Lamont did with them in his Tucson garden. Nothing… no news about blight, tomato septosporia, leaf spot, nothing. […]
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As of August 18th it is reviving. Daytime temperatures are still over 100 and it wilts midday, but evenings are becoming much more comfortable for all my garden plants. Look at the progress….. This is the green bell pepper that I had cut off to a 2″ stub and was going to pull it out, […]
Well, it’s now August and my bell pepper experiment is going right along. These are the two scraggly peppers doing their best to beat the heat. They were twice this size, but when everything else died from heat exhaustion, they lingered on. I cut them back to half their size, I think it was early […]
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