Let's Share Gardening Tips and Pics.

[KJane]

No Ref they don't look like that. I'm so blind and they are so small...I'll try to get a better look tomorrow with more sunlight on them. Their size says not stink bugs or soldier beetles Deeez. What I saw were small....not leaf hoppers...beetles. I'll try for a pic of what I see tomorrow.

The holes in the leaves are round...not mozaic (sp)...so far not too much damage.

I didn't think grasshoppers would eat tomato plants...learn something new all the time.

I think the heat has effected the tomato fruit...some aren't round, they are sort of lumpy...I'll get pics tomorrow.

Thanks everyone. Geesh...

The squash are blooming...

It's so hot and humid here is been like a sauna...I go out and sweat pops out all over...I have to carry a rag to see....

[Refuge51]

Here is my first hibiscus

[Refuge51]

And here is one of my anise hyssop bushes and the pollinating carpenter bees who love it.

[W.M.DEEEZ]

Devastated by the last 3 years of early blight, I decided to rotate crops this year. So..I planted (what was supposed to be) bush type butternut squash, with pole beans in between.

I haven't planted pole beans in decades...opting for the bush type. I chose the pole beans this year, so that I could harvest beans without having to dig under what I knew would be a full canopy of squash leaves.

I've got plants that rival the Jack In The Beanstalk vine, but not one flower! What the hell is up w/pole beans?

I purposely didn't feed the beans when I planted them, so I know this can't be a case of too much nitrogen. Do any of you grow the pole beans? I've never seen anything like this.

They're already wound around my mammoth sunflower plants, and are heading for the sky. No beans, however...

Notice my little helper cleaning her fat ass. She never lets me garden by myself.

[KJane]

My gawd what a jungle!!! Your plants are beautiful. Like you it's been decades since I grew poll beans so I can't help. They're huge it's true, hopefully they will settle down and flower for you.

Do you remember the variety of squash you planted? I have some Butternut squash planted that are going wild and all over the place, (they aren't bush) but they lack the beautiful veining your's has.

I found some black spots on my thriving tomatoes...I'll spray some Neem oil on the plant...I guess I should remove anything that shows blight and not put it in the compost. Clorox the tools as well.

Thanks for the pictures to you and Refuge (your garden is lovely)..

[W.M.DEEEZ]

Originally Posted by KJane

My gawd what a jungle!!! Your plants are beautiful. Like you it's been decades since I grew poll beans so I can't help. They're huge it's true, hopefully they will settle down and flower for you.

Do you remember the variety of squash you planted? I have some Butternut squash planted that are going wild and all over the place, (they aren't bush) but they lack the beautiful veining your's has.

I found some black spots on my thriving tomatoes...I'll spray some Neem oil on the plant...I guess I should remove anything that shows blight and not put it in the compost. Clorox the tools as well.

Thanks for the pictures to you and Refuge (your garden is lovely)..

I believe the squash is called Butterbush. I found them last year, and they acted like bush type plants. This soil is very rich, and I've been feeding them with a variety of organics. They are 'kind of' a bush plant, but they're so happy, they're running all over the place.


I moved my tomatoes to containers in another spot. For the first time, I started treating w/the bacillus subtillis from the day I planted them...not one sign of blight so far. I believe I may have stumbled upon a way to avoid my disgust/disgrace/frustration with growing tomatoes in the future.

I'm happy to announce that my spag. squash project is doing very well. I was terribly busy w/work this spring, and I never got the time to work that patch. Instead, I started seeds in containers, to be transplanted. Normally, I don't do that w/squash. I had to fight the squirrels, who were stealing the seeds over and over again.

Nevertheless, I was able to transplant about 15 plants on or about July1, and they've taken off. There are scores of squash that have set, so I guess the project worked. Last year, my plants drowned in the month long rain, or were eaten by slugs due to same. I had to replant for the third time on July 1, and had dreadful results. I never thought to start them in containers.

[Carnac]

Can't help with beans but I have the same prob with my tomatoes. About 7-feet high. I think with the tomatoes, I put the biggest in a tomato cage and they are grouped too closely together and not getting enough sunlight. I have blossoms but is it too late in the season to hope they will begin to produce?

My squash was thriving. I have little ants on them. At the thick stems they look funny like they are rotting at the stem. There is also a milky kind of discharge too. I am aggravated. A lot of time and money to be disappointed.

[dadakarma]

I saw Althea on the porch taking a little bath in one of those pics...

[Refuge51]

I'm sorry you have no flowers yet Deeez, but it sure looks fruitful

[bluzman]

my cousin has a large crop of seminole squash originating from his compost ---they have these long runners----if the skin is not broken this wild squash lasts a long time....
everytime i tried to plant flowers----the dogs would pull em out......dogs like to romp n play ......