Disappearing Tomatoe Plants
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Comments (27)i agree with byrd2park. Sharpie Extreme works great and comes in at least 4 colors if you like that option. I've used black Sharpie Industrial markers successfully, too. I wonder if they are the same formulation, with the Extreme a new marketing angle for labeling sports equipment, etc. The traditional permanent Sharpies fade quickly in some locations. Not so with the Extreme. The popsicle stick idea sounded good to me a few times but turned out badly. Most rotted off or discolored well before I wanted them to decompose. Some hardwood stakes have lasted quite well over a full season, though. Mostly I stick with plastics for labels....See Moredisappearing tomato flowers
Comments (3)Sounds like those flowers are not pollinating and the flower falls off. I have that problem with any of the big toms. Havent grown em yet successfully. Could be to cold, overwatering, or lack of calcium. Search garden web for tomato pollination....See MoreTomatoes disappearing, and bean beetles
Comments (3)Thank you!! Waiting on my Spinosad to be delivered. Hope it gets here soon! The beans have attracted another new pest... some kind of black fly looking things (not beetles) that multiplied like crazy overnight. The beans were looking really rough today. I picked up a bottle of Liquid Fence. It's been raining, so haven't applied it yet... but I'm hoping that might solve the deer and rabbit issue. (My black seeded simpson lettuce got chomped now too!) I'll definitely be figuring out some kind of fencing for next year....See Moremy tomatoe limbs are disappearing!
Comments (6)Funny you should mention "Patio Tomatoes." Seems the primary target of the rabbits in my garden are dwarf tomatoes with sweet fruit. In my case, it's the Lime Green Salad plants that get chewed back to a nub first. So, this year I planted a dozen or so right out on the border of the raised bed tomato patch, and sure enough, about six are really taking the brunt of the nocternal rodentary gnawing! Sacrificial lambs of the garden so to speak. BUT ... four alarm warning ... they attacked my wife's maiden hair ferns early this morning. Lawd have mercy ... you never heard such cursing! A cure? I've tried hot pepper flakes, ground cayenne, garlic squeezins, rotten egg water, human hair, fabric softener hankies, aluminum pie pan wind chimes, motion activated spot lights, leaving the dogs on the screen porch, tiger poop from the zoo ... everything. Fo'gettabowdit. Bugs is gonna win until Mr. Browing Pump comes outta the closet. But in my new life it's "live and let live," so I just keep pokin' new little Lime Green Salad plants along the border of the bed. Grow them up as large as you can in small pots and then plant them when they're still tender but bushy. I swear, the rabbits love that particular variety for some unknown reason. Bill...See Moreheirloomjunkie
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