You Know You've Got TMD (Tomato Madness Disease) When ...
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So mad about plant I just got! Has flower glued on!
Comments (52)tjicken~ I had no clue which one you were talking about and had to go look it up. LOL! (tags have been lost over the years.) Wow! It will be great if it ever blooms. He's had it about 5 yrs now with no blooms. He liked it because of the color and shape of the needles. Thank you for sharing the name. Oh and I found today the comon name is Arizona hedge hog..lol! I'm in Tucson, Arizona. :) puglvr1 and emerald.. Thank you! Yes he is proud and has to take care of his plants on his own when he asks me to buy them! He grows sunflowers and a few others types in the summer, and helps with all garden chores in general. It started when he was 3. What little boy doesn't like dirt! LOL! But I think mom got more excited over finding worms than he did. LOL! And now that he's older, I have to keep them a secret or his dad and him would be heading to the lake. :) Emerald~ thank you! I tried that and the glue just didnt want to give... it ended up taking all the needles with it. It was on pretty thick. The plant is o.k. though. I do have one small fish hook type that blooms each summer. Just showed up in my yard next to my barrel cactus....See MoreLate Blight got my Tomatoes...
Comments (3)First, I admire your incredible efforts and dedication -- what an undertaking. Second, you have my sincere sympathy. The rapidity of this disease is overwhelming. I've attached a link of an updated 8/10/2009 Cornell University Late Blight FAQ that may answer some questions for you. On a personal note and much, much smaller scale, I've noticed that harvested green tomatoes from plants that had deteriorated to the point of lesions on leaves AND stems have yielded rotting tomatoes (they will remain green for several days, and then begin wrinkling/browning/rotting near the top.) In another separate garden, I harvested green tomatoes from plants that had one or two infected leaves. They are ripening and show no signs of rotting. I know ...not necessarily statistically reliable information, just my experience. By the way, the tomatoes were also separated. I'll be interested to read others' advice, and good luck! BTW, read carefully about disposal. Take care -- Cathy in SWPA Here is a link that might be useful: Updated Cornell University 8/10/2009...See MoreThings you've never tried that you still turn your nose up at?
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Comments (61)Never plant the tall Mexican ruellia in Houston! ( I like the short clumping Katy ruellia.) That plant is the curse of my garden. My master gardener friend gave me on purple and one white. the purple has marched more than 1/2 way around the fence borders. She failed to mention that she pulled them all the time and her many paved pathways helped to keep them contained. I sprayed it with Round Up and it shot seeds at me and made popcorn sounds. (That hurt, too!) They grow 7 ft tall in up through my lemonade honeysuckle vine and laugh at me over the tops of the suburban fences. I have pull and paid others hundreds of dollars to pull and they keep coming back, since they also send out awful runners. This plant survived the poison ivy and brush killer and Ground Clear, as did wedellia. The wedellia was gone for three year, cam back and jumped to another bed. I would pour gasoline on them both if I knew that would kill them. The wedellia roots where it the leaf nodes touch the ground and smothered my daylilies....See Morewvtomatoman
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