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the technological J · « **Reply #200 on:** June 14, 2012, 12:44:15 PM »

i say go for it if your getting started plants... mine are pretty new and im in pittsburgh so you should be ok... just dont spend too much then it a small gamble

72500john · « **Reply #201 on:** June 14, 2012, 04:33:50 PM »

just put some peppers in last week. they should be fine and grow till the first frost in November.
here's on for you all.. found this one on the net.
homemade bug spray.
1 1/2 gallons of water
4-5 jalapeno peppers
1 bar of ivory soap grated up.
blend it all together and spray it on your plants.
i use it since my kids are always in the garden. works good.

the technological J · « **Reply #202 on:** June 15, 2012, 07:42:15 AM »

ive heard that recipe with garlic blended in it

any of you guys do companion planting?

TwoTired · « **Reply #203 on:** June 15, 2012, 11:18:24 AM »

Quote from: the technological J on June 15, 2012, 07:42:15 AM

any of you guys do companion planting?

Absolutely! I've never had a problem with tomato horn worm since planting Basil along side it. Also, marigolds are always in my garden. I also have a book on companion planting. It works!

Cheers,

72500john · « **Reply #204 on:** June 15, 2012, 04:58:29 PM »

have always done some marigolds and nasturtium's around the garden..didn't know other plants helped also..will have to read up on that..what book do you have two tired?

jay try a motion activated sprinkler for deer control. runs off a 9volt and sprays 35 feet. folks i know who live further out than i do use it and it works fine. norther tool caries them.. if not i think quality farm and fleet is in your area, maybe tractor supply now?
from the pics looks like you can use the old 22 for groundhogs.

TwoTired · « **Reply #205 on:** June 15, 2012, 05:16:20 PM »

Quote from: 72500john on June 15, 2012, 04:58:29 PM

have always done some marigolds and nasturtium's around the garden..didn't know other plants helped also..will have to read up on that..what book do you have two tired?

The book is: Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte.
Amazon sells it for about $11.

I found this below in a google search. I didn't read it all so I don't know if it has all the same text. Appears to be authored by the same person. It looks like it might be edited or abbreviated with regard to my book (which I got in 1986).

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/carrots-love-tomatoes-companion-planting-for-a-healthy-garden-zb0z11zbug.aspx

Cheers,

72500john · « **Reply #206 on:** June 15, 2012, 05:36:15 PM »

ordered it. looks like a good read. thanks!

78 k550 · « **Reply #207 on:** June 17, 2012, 06:59:06 PM »

Ant's

Look's like ants also like my raised beds. What can I do for them I have heard cornmeal but have not tried that yet.

Paul

faux fiddy · « **Reply #208 on:** June 17, 2012, 11:42:23 PM »

I always heard clover is a good plant to have around, so I started a patch.

It doesn't grow taller than most vegetables, and is a legume so it helps put nitrogen in the soil. I started a patch in my front yard, hopefully it grows in thick enough to smother out the weeds that come when you turn the soil.

cookindaddy · « **Reply #209 on:** June 18, 2012, 05:31:22 AM »

Forgot about the marigolds this year and will have to get some. I'll see if the library has the book Lloyd, thanks for the tip. Remember libraries?

What sort of problems are you getting with the ants? Ants everywhere here too but I've seen them as part of nature. Are they eating your plants? Like worms, I'd thought they would aerate the soil with their work.

jstfkndi · « **Reply #210 on:** June 18, 2012, 07:30:08 AM »

Thanks! I'll start some under a light from seed. Thta is how all mine got started this year and it saves a ton of money. Peppermint oil for ants. They don't want to cross it.

the technological J · « **Reply #211 on:** June 18, 2012, 07:44:16 AM »

the book that got me asking about it was "mini farming self sustaining on a quarter acre" you can find it on your favorite torrent site

TwoTired · « **Reply #212 on:** June 18, 2012, 09:45:34 AM »

Quote from: cookindaddy on June 18, 2012, 05:31:22 AM

Are they eating your plants? Like worms, I'd thought they would aerate the soil with their work.

Ants will "heard" aphids about your garden. They guard, protect, and physically distribute aphids around your garden foliage.
Aphids literally suck the life out of your vegetable plants, and weaken them to diminish or prevent crop yields.
Ants benefit from aphids as the aphids secrete a waxy substance that the ants "milk" and use for food.

As far as I know, if you have no aphid population, the ants don't harm your garden, unless their colony decides your plant's root system is invading their territory, which they increasingly expand.

Cheers,

cookindaddy · « **Reply #213 on:** June 18, 2012, 01:19:57 PM »

The stuff you can learn on a motorcycle board - it's amazing.

78 k550 · « **Reply #214 on:** June 18, 2012, 04:52:48 PM »

Quote from: cookindaddy on June 18, 2012, 05:31:22 AM

Forgot about the marigolds this year and will have to get some. I'll see if the library has the book Lloyd, thanks for the tip. Remember libraries?

What sort of problems are you getting with the ants? Ants everywhere here too but I've seen them as part of nature. Are they eating your plants? Like worms, I'd thought they would aerate the soil with their work.

I'm doing more reading but I don't see why get rid of them if not eating at the roots.

Paul

faux fiddy · « **Reply #215 on:** June 19, 2012, 03:00:55 AM »

Quote from: cookindaddy on June 18, 2012, 05:31:22 AM

Forgot about the marigolds this year and will have to get some.

I've had Marigolds volunteer for the last 8 years or so and wanted to thin them out so I didn't leave them out after fall, and didn't spread the seed. Only got a couple and one was in the wrong place so I potted it and killed it.

Gotta find some Basil before the month is over, only have one of those that I see from the seeds I spread.

cookindaddy · « **Reply #216 on:** June 19, 2012, 03:32:29 AM »

Marigolds don't volunteer here. Dill and cilantro everywhere but not marigolds. Is it possible the marigolds I am buying are hybrids and the seeds don't work? I did save marigold seed from the ones last year, purchased plants that were prolific and pretty and I tried to start them in March with the other stuff on the grow stand, but nothing came up from those.

the technological J · « **Reply #217 on:** June 19, 2012, 06:26:25 AM »

thats a good guess buy em from seed and you shouldnt have to worry about it

demon78 · « **Reply #218 on:** June 22, 2012, 04:37:16 AM »

Well we have just about every thing in and the tomatoes seem to doing brilliantly, peppers, are going along good but something has been at the beans and they're having a tough time, the peas are going good we've already been eating them and the other thing we've noticed the carrots are not germinating the way they should, I know that we're going to replant both the beans and the carrots a little later this season to see if we can't get some in before winter.
This is the first year that we will have tried crop rotation, we put in a new bed and got a 100' by 20' piece turned over a the back (peppers and squash) now have to go and disrupt weeds back there, the new bed is 17' by 40' and is full of tomatoes ( 130 of the little gems ) I'll try and post pictures shortly as soon as I catch up on some of my projects like finishing repairing our garden tractor (Stony Keppel township is hard on mower blades) which sounds minimal but at 72 is a pain because getting down and up a few times means that I'm screwed up for the rest of the day, as far as the carrots go I think the flaky weather has been the cause of that ( we've had abnormally warm temps early ). Anyone else have poor germination?
Bill the demon.

cookindaddy · « **Reply #219 on:** June 22, 2012, 01:16:09 PM »

Good germination of everything here except for the marigolds but I am no where near as ambitious as you seem to be Bill.

And growth has been near spectacular with the sun and rain co-operating. Couple days I had to carry many cans of water to help out. My irrigation system is not available - I'm doing some work adding a couple solar panels to the shed roof to run a small dc pump.

You had the same weather I think Bill for three days 32C/90F plus the humidity made it over 100, couple records set.

I didn't ride in any of that fine weather. Must get out this weekend!

72500john · « **Reply #220 on:** June 22, 2012, 06:27:48 PM »

garden is doing well with the help of the two rain barrels i put in. got a few barrels from a buddy. his neighbor works for Pepsi. a little sheet metal,some rivets, hose bib, and gutter. maybe 30 bucks tied up in the whole thing.here's some pics

72500john · « **Reply #221 on:** June 28, 2012, 03:56:25 PM »

found a good use for the decrepit flower bed on the one side of the house. tilled it up, fertilized and planted hubbard squash to make the wife punkin soup this fall. wondered if the neighbor would mind but he has already laid claim to anything that grows into his yard!

the technological J · « **Reply #222 on:** July 10, 2012, 09:50:36 AM »

Quote from: the technological J on May 27, 2012, 08:12:57 PM

hopefully i will see chives, grapes, asparagus, blue lake beans, cantalope, cauliflower, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, green peppers, squash, zuchinni, onions, garlic, lettuce, brocolli, blue and red popcorn, goose beans, painted pony beans, basil, dill, mint, banana peppers watermelon,tobacco, pumpkin and sunflowers

here she is as of yesterday

72500john · « **Reply #223 on:** July 11, 2012, 05:12:21 PM »

looks better than mine right now j, lack of rain here has dried out most things. what part of the burg on you in? i grew up near white oak/ north huntingdon.

the technological J · « **Reply #224 on:** July 11, 2012, 08:42:23 PM »

i grew up near freeport, which is where the gardens at and in between kitanning and new kensington (about 40 miles north of pitts) but live near butler now

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