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re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted on 4/27/24 at 1:43 pm to Mr Sausage
Posted on 4/27/24 at 1:43 pm to Mr Sausage
Agree on the drip tape. This wind is beating the shite out of everything.
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 1:43 pm to bamarep
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What would you guys recommend? Drip tape or drip emitters. I have both and can't decide.
Based on the length of your rows I'd go with the drip tape. They're better for long runs.
Great looking garden!
Posted on 4/27/24 at 7:20 pm to PillageUrVillage
Due to work, I wasn’t able to get my vegetables planted until Apr 6 so I’m behind most of you professionals here.
But it looks like the blueberries will do well this year.
But it looks like the blueberries will do well this year.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:35 pm to 81Tiger
Rained some today so didn’t get any pics for the weekly dump.
Did some feeding yesterday. Supposed to have rain throughout this week, so hoping they really start to take off.
Did some feeding yesterday. Supposed to have rain throughout this week, so hoping they really start to take off.
Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:52 pm to meeple
I've been meaning to get pics. Been pretty busy lately. Maybe after this week's rain.
Everyone else's stuff is looking great.
Everyone else's stuff is looking great.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:58 am to Devious
I've lost two more pepper plants in the past week. They go from looking healthy to wilted and dying almost overnight. This has happened to both potted peppers and peppers I planted in the ground.
They're not dehydrated and the roots look fine when I pull them. It's happened to a big jim, a chilitepin, an aji charapita, a jimmy nardello, a tiburon, and a shishito.
Fertilizer burn? I put a tablespoon of 10-10-10 around them about 2 weeks ago. Never had a problem with those amounts before and as you can see from the below photo the plants around them are healthy. Haven't sprayed herbicide around them. They get full sunlight until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I water once per week.
They're not dehydrated and the roots look fine when I pull them. It's happened to a big jim, a chilitepin, an aji charapita, a jimmy nardello, a tiburon, and a shishito.
Fertilizer burn? I put a tablespoon of 10-10-10 around them about 2 weeks ago. Never had a problem with those amounts before and as you can see from the below photo the plants around them are healthy. Haven't sprayed herbicide around them. They get full sunlight until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I water once per week.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:20 pm to Loup
I’m stumped on this one. That really is odd. I got nothing. Hopefully the rest survive!
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:30 pm to PillageUrVillage
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I’m stumped on this one. That really is odd. I got nothing. Hopefully the rest survive!
Thanks.
I've never had this happen before. Usually you can tell the dog stepped on it, a squirrel dug it up, or I forgot to water them.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:30 pm to Loup
I am having issues with my plants as well this year. Growing very very slowly. Looking wilted and yellow one day and the next seem to be fine. I think i was over watering them at the beginning, but I've only been watering once every 3 days for the last two weeks or so. I've tried fertilizers. It's been very odd. I am just going to keep with my water schedule and see if they improve as the temps continue to get warmer.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:33 pm to Loup
I don't think that's fert burn. Just looking at your other plants - were they all planted at the same time? Those other peppers look a lot more healthy.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:37 pm to bluemoons
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I don't think that's fert burn. Just looking at your other plants - were they all planted at the same time? Those other peppers look a lot more healthy.
The bigger ones in the back were planted earlier. The ones that died looked just as healthy until they didn't. It wasn't slow. One day fine, next day wilted. They're all in the same soil. I mixed compost and pro mix then filled the grow bags from that.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:39 pm to Loup
I feel like container gardening is just hard. You're trying to maintain soil and nutrient quality that changes so quickly. Plants will suck up nutrients fast. And when you water, you're washing some of it out anyway.
Tough little environment to sustain...
Eta sorry that wasn't very helpful
Tough little environment to sustain...
Eta sorry that wasn't very helpful
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:54 pm to Devious
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Tough little environment to sustain...
Eta sorry that wasn't very helpful
No worries
. I've been pretty successful with it for peppers. I compost all the leaves in my yard and mix that in every year. Also got some horse shite from a friend and composted that. After I grow one plant in it I dump it back in to the compost bin to get mixed back with leaves and horse shite. If I have too much I dump it in the flower beds.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:55 pm to Devious
quote:
I feel like container gardening is just hard. You're trying to maintain soil and nutrient quality that changes so quickly. Plants will suck up nutrients fast. And when you water, you're washing some of it out anyway.
I am doing container peppers and tomatoes as well. I used the Osmocote 14-14-14 slow release fertilizer. Its says this should last 3-4 months do to is slow release of the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Anyone use this fertilizer with any success in container plants?
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 4/30/24 at 6:41 pm to Devious
quote:
feel like container gardening is just hard. You're trying to maintain soil and nutrient quality that changes so quickly. Plants will suck up nutrients fast. And when you water, you're washing some of it out anyway.
Yeah my squash trap plants are in pots. I fed them the same amount of calcium nitrate as the rest of my raised bed garden and the leaves are yellowing.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 7:38 am to meeple
I think the biggest issue most people have with container gardening is consistent watering. And like Devious mentioned, depleted soil from water washing nutrients away. The most success I've had with anything grown in containers is by feeding with a water soluble fertilizer at least once a week.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 8:43 am to PillageUrVillage
quote:Although newish to this, I have been dumping all my containers in mid winter and adding fresh bags of compost and a very unscientific addition of granular fertilizer. I mix well, then refill. This has worked well for the last two seasons.
depleted soil from water washing nutrients away.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 2:53 pm to AlxTgr
Pulled up some taters today. First time i've done that since i was a kid with my paw paw 30 years ago.
Taters look great, but the soil underneath in one area was clumpy white in a few spots. I'm assuming this is some kind of mold?
is that from watering too much and it not draining well?
Taters look great, but the soil underneath in one area was clumpy white in a few spots. I'm assuming this is some kind of mold?
is that from watering too much and it not draining well?
Posted on 5/1/24 at 6:47 pm to TeddyPadillac
We have our first tomato ripening on a Sun Gold. Doubt my daughter lets them last too long. The rest of the tomatoes look awful after the ridiculous wind last weekend.
The onions look great. Both types of yellow are bulbed and starting to lay over. The whites are right behind and the reds are lagging but starting to really put on bulbs lately.
First green bean harvest this evening.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 9:37 pm to Loup
My peppers are doing awful this year as well. No clue what is going on. I have 3 different varieties - last year they thrived. This year, not so much. Very yellow-ish color and not a true leafy green like they should be.
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