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kweber
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 Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:44 pm Post subject: soon.... |
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almost time to start thinking about those tomato/pepper sets....
big ol' tomato slice, mayo, some winter lettuce, crispy bacon and some fresh toasted French bread... 
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CopanoCruisin
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| Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, about that time. I just walked in with a Picken of Swiss chard, a couple of beets, kohlrabi and cauliflower. Mmmm....mmmm....gooood!!!!!!! |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:42 am Post subject: |
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Little early for pepper sets, but definitely on the tomatoes. I have mine all ready to go in the ground next weekend, plus a patio variety that overwintered and looks to just bust out (as well as a couple of volunteers that came up from the compost material and they are as big as anything you can find in stores right now).
Put in all of the onions and started the lettuce/spinach last weekend, and have large heads of broccoli from the fall set right now. |
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deputydawg
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | Little early for pepper sets, but definitely on the tomatoes. I have mine all ready to go in the ground next weekend, plus a patio variety that overwintered and looks to just bust out (as well as a couple of volunteers that came up from the compost material and they are as big as anything you can find in stores right now).
Put in all of the onions and started the lettuce/spinach last weekend, and have large heads of broccoli from the fall set right now. |
I've had a few heads of broccoli from my mom and dads garden recently and they are heavenly! Im not much on the maters but most everything else is so dang good! Wish I had the time or mostly the "dedication" to get out there and grow some stuff. |
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rawlbay
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Location: Padre Island
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| Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Hopefully the summer maters work out better than the winter maters. I went out of town for a week or so right when a bumper batch of tomato horn worms showed up. They never really recovered from their head to toe buzz cut. |
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CopanoCruisin
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Location: West shore of Copano Bay
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| Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Just got in from tilling this afternoon. What a beautiful afternoon. Getting ready for a jump start, sometimes you win, sometimes you don't........cC |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| rawlbay wrote: | | Hopefully the summer maters work out better than the winter maters. I went out of town for a week or so right when a bumper batch of tomato horn worms showed up. They never really recovered from their head to toe buzz cut. |
You too, huh? I lost nearly everything in the tomato department cause of those little guys this year. It was a bumper crop. |
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rawlbay
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| Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| Dang. Just pulled up the old tomato plants only to find what looks to be the signs of root knot nematode. I'm gonna take a sample over to turner's for confirmation. Anybody dealt with that before? |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Only .... all the time!!!!!! It's the Bluff and the sandy soils, the nematodes love it.
Plant nematode-resistant varieties (good for some measure but by no means a cure), winter rye grass helps, as does marigolds in the spring summer. Past that, there are no real cures. Solarization in the summer is about the only true method, but it still only goes down about 6 inches or so. Lots of organic matter, rotate crops in the same bed, that's about all you can do.
I have them bad some years, but heavy fertilization of resistant varieties combats it, and I get decent harvests. |
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rawlbay
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I talked to turners today. They said they would be getting some "beneficial nematodes" in a couple weeks. They also suggested a scoop of sugar in each hole along with the tomato transplant. Not sure what the mechanism is in that regard, but sugar is cheap enough, so why not... I got a few sacks of composted manure and a few sacks of composted cotton burr while I was there. I'm gonna plant celebrities and tycoons in feb and hope for the best! |
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Sugar, huh?!?! That's a new one. Not sure about the "how", but, like you said, sugar is relatively cheap (I unloaded 50+ lbs on hummingbirds last fall, so if it helps with the nematodes, I say, sugar away!!!!).
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Chef Lefty
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | Little early for pepper sets, but definitely on the tomatoes. I have mine all ready to go in the ground next weekend, plus a patio variety that overwintered and looks to just bust out (as well as a couple of volunteers that came up from the compost material and they are as big as anything you can find in stores right now).
Put in all of the onions and started the lettuce/spinach last weekend, and have large heads of broccoli from the fall set right now. |
That's why I only see you in the meat department of HEB.
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | I call shenanigans on that one. |
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landlocked beachbum
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Man....... Y'all reallyknowhow to hurt a guy!  I start all my owns seeds, and it's WAY too early to be thinking about it up here, very sad to say.
Our average last frost is April 10th, but from 2010-2012 we didn't have a recorded frost after late February/early March. So it only figures that after setting my BEAUTIFUL homegrown 2 footers out last April 15th, there was a frost that night!!!!!!!  
Good luck with your gardens everyone, i'm jealous again.........
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:43 am Post subject: |
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| landlocked beachbum wrote: | Man....... Y'all reallyknowhow to hurt a guy! I start all my owns seeds, and it's WAY too early to be thinking about it up here, very sad to say.
Our average last frost is April 10th |
I too start most everything from seed, with a grow-light set-up in the garage that I usually get fired up after Thanksgiving, so I can have decent plants to set out around our average last freeze of Feb 14th.
I gambled this year and set things out early, only to have the "polar vortex" and it's cousin "polar vortex 2" swipe down from the frozen white wasteland and wreck havoc on us southern folks. Thankfully, it looks like it paid off, as we got down to 35 during the first wave, and only 39 (despite the sleet) last night. I pulled in the pepper plants, but the tomatoes are in the ground and they appear to be holding up well.
My condolences on your frigid weather, because if I had to garden around those temps, I don't know what I would do. |
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kweber
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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aint even cranked up the tiller...
i'll defer to those more brave...
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