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Jun 21, 2024 12:35:38 GMT -5
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Post by cadman on Jun 21, 2024 12:35:38 GMT -5
Where the azaleas are I just want two bushes on either side of the driveway at the road. Started to get sago palms, but went azaleas instead.
What's a good plant for that, only gets watered when it rains.
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Jun 21, 2024 12:35:48 GMT -5
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Post by One Man Gang on Jun 21, 2024 12:35:48 GMT -5
This is my problem too. I planted more sunflowers 3 days ago and the damn new lizards eat them the minute they sprout out of the ground. Tomatoes and I have caterpillars everywhere eating the leaves and fruit. Okra I had some success at and I pickle them. Do you kill wasp around your place? Not particularly.
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Post by cadman on Jun 21, 2024 12:37:58 GMT -5
Gainesville, Florida This was my first spring garden since I retired. Did some tomatoes years ago but not a real garden. Not sure why the corn died, may just not plant it again. With the watermelon, I need lots of room to let it grow. I didn't know the vines got that long or climbed. I also get more sunshine with some trees gone in my yard and the neighbor's yard. My other issue is my blueberry plants are not doing well. They get plenty of water, but maybe too much sun? Not sure how much sun Blueberries need. I had two Azealas in the front yard that are dying. I don't water them properly and the full sun has killed them. Side note, I ran over my mailbox like an idiot. I was backing up and forgot where I was and it was. I have wanted to move it anyway as it is in the way to the backyard gate and my trailer, so now I wait until Tuesday for 811 to come out and mark the underground stuff and will move it to a better location. Alachua and Marion Counties around the urban areas have better soil than most of Florida. Means blueberries will suck at growing in it. Blueberries like acidic sand that kills most non-native plants. Most blueberry farms are in pine flatwoods for this reason. My blueberry farm is a high pine ridge that juts out into swampland. Terrible for all crops except blueberries, pears, and persimmons. The only reason I can grow anything else is that I can amend garden beds with lots of wood ash and animal manure. You’ll have to do the opposite to make blueberries (meaning you’ll have to make acidic islands of botanical death in what is likely otherwise decent soil). I'll forget the blueberries and get a banana tree or peach tree maybe. My orange tree does O.K.
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Jun 21, 2024 12:38:37 GMT -5
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Post by bullfrog on Jun 21, 2024 12:38:37 GMT -5
I planted some tomatoes, watermelon, carrots, and corn back in early March. The corn grew to 4 feet and died. the carrots did o.k. but were small, may have picked them too soon. The tomatoes and melons grew like crazy, I have 4 or 5 melons I am waiting on to get bigger and ripen. But the vines took over everything in their path. The tomato plants grew to about 5 feet tall and are loaded with tomatoes. 2 plants lave large tomatoes that are still green and one plant has small tomatoes that are ripening. I picked 8 of them this morning to have for dinner. I do not understand why the same plant from the same seed pack has two different size tomatoes on them and even look different growing. The one with small tomatoes has the fruit in bunches and the other one has a single fruit separated from each other. Sounds like your tomato seeds were hybridized. Suppose a gardener plants 2 kinds of tomatoes near one another. They’ll cross pollinate. The fruit for each kind will look normal for that kind, but the seeds inside the fruit will be where the hybrids come from and they can grow into all sorts of variants. That sort of hybridization shouldn’t happen in any respectable seed company’s stock. But you would expect it if your seeds came from someone’s personal garden. Any of those seeds “Everglades” tomatoes by chance?
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Post by OhMy on Jun 21, 2024 12:42:14 GMT -5
This is my problem too. I planted more sunflowers 3 days ago and the damn new lizards eat them the minute they sprout out of the ground. Tomatoes and I have caterpillars everywhere eating the leaves and fruit. Okra I had some success at and I pickle them. Do you kill wasp around your place? No. I try not to kill anything except a roach, I will kill those.
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Post by cyclist on Jun 21, 2024 12:43:41 GMT -5
Where the azaleas are I just want two bushes on either side of the driveway at the road. Started to get sago palms, but went azaleas instead. What's a good plant for that, only gets watered when it rains. Here is a suggestion
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Post by tampaspicer on Jun 21, 2024 12:48:29 GMT -5
Do you kill wasp around your place? No. I try not to kill anything except a roach, I will kill those. Me either. The wasp will eat the caterpillars from your garden. I saw a video the other day and someone was letting ducks run around their garden eating all kinds of bugs. Spraying onion/garlic water on them will help as well. I kill most of my pest by hand in my gardens.
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Post by cadman on Jun 21, 2024 12:57:30 GMT -5
Finally took photos of the tomato plants. One has tomatoes like this and the other has tomatoes like this They came out of the same seed packet
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Jun 21, 2024 13:40:54 GMT -5
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Post by bullfrog on Jun 21, 2024 13:40:54 GMT -5
Finally took photos of the tomato plants. One has tomatoes like this View Attachmentand the other has tomatoes like this View AttachmentThey came out of the same seed packet Pic of the back of the seed packet?
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Post by cadman on Jun 21, 2024 13:44:04 GMT -5
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Jun 21, 2024 13:48:40 GMT -5
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Post by bullfrog on Jun 21, 2024 13:48:40 GMT -5
I’m guessing that if they pollinate their varieties naturally on their farm, they had some cross contamination. Probably makes for a strong tomato because of it. This season I purposely hybridized wild tomatoes a larger heirloom variety that grows well on my farm. I’m curious to see if the ruggedness of the wild tomatoes carries through ton the hybrids.
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Jun 23, 2024 10:02:01 GMT -5
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Post by garycoleco on Jun 23, 2024 10:02:01 GMT -5
Nitrogen ruins a ton of gardens every year. Get your soil tested to see if you have soil instead of dirt. Most gardens are dirt. If you have dirt get to work conditioning the soil
If your chasing acidity get free spent coffee from Starbucks. Worms also love it
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Post by cadman on Jun 23, 2024 12:02:35 GMT -5
Nitrogen ruins a ton of gardens every year. Get your soil tested to see if you have soil instead of dirt. Most gardens are dirt. If you have dirt get to work conditioning the soil If your chasing acidity get free spent coffee from Starbucks. Worms also love it I mixed it 10 bags of garden soil from Home Depot before I planted. I plan on taking a soil sample to the county agriculture station to test it before my next garden.
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My garden
Jun 23, 2024 15:11:06 GMT -5
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Post by garycoleco on Jun 23, 2024 15:11:06 GMT -5
Nitrogen ruins a ton of gardens every year. Get your soil tested to see if you have soil instead of dirt. Most gardens are dirt. If you have dirt get to work conditioning the soil If your chasing acidity get free spent coffee from Starbucks. Worms also love it I mixed it 10 bags of garden soil from Home Depot before I planted. I plan on taking a soil sample to the county agriculture station to test it before my next garden. 10 bags did nothing. Also soil test results will take a minimum of 8 to 12 months for the needle to move. It's a lot of year round work
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Post by conchydong on Jun 23, 2024 16:31:47 GMT -5
Try growing some Gainsville Green.
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