Saturday, May 9, 2009

Question Of The Week-End.

Am I the only one who needs a watch on when I go out to the garden in the morning so I can track/time the sun on my plants?

It goes something like this.........

To myself....."Lets see it's 8:22 and my corn & back row tomatoes are getting nice sun........if it gets shady at 4:00....... that's............almost 8 hours of sun! Very nice.........Geesh, it's 8:45 and the dang squash still doesn't have any sun.........Dang it, I've got to plant them in a different spot next time..............OK it's 9:12 .......yada, yada, yada.

Am I the only one?

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Question of the week.........

Is 6 hours of full Florida sun equal to 6 hours of full Vermont sun?

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Cutworms!

They're killing me. They've chomped over 25 pepper plants & 10 tomato plants this year. It started out with just a couple pepper plants getting chomped in half and I thought........"I've had some plants chomped in two before......no big deal" Well..... it was a big deal. I planted some replacements plus about 10 more and the next day..........all chomped down. I then used some paper cups cut in half to wrap around the stems and they were too low......I lost another 8. So I planted some more a couple of days ago with longer wraps.........and they seem to be working. Check it out:


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Right above the dirt line they chew & chew & chew until...........

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........they're chopped in half. My first attempt to sleave the stalks.......uummm, didn't exactly work out as planned.

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My new style.....it's not pretty but it's been 3 days and no damage yet!