Ok, we have had drought, rain, bugs, drought and now more rain. Here is what has happened to my garden:
This first pic is of a transplant into coconut coir from coir and it's doing really well, grow baby grow:
The latest on my garden
Now my cukes have stopped producing, they are sickly in color and I'm not really sure if I'm going to just yank them up and throw them away yet or not?
My cantaloupe bit the dust but looky here, if you look really close you will see a baby watermelon coming and these are planted in coconut coir lay flat bags: Just kidding it's in the next pic.
This message was edited Jul 9, 2009 9:29 AM
Now that everyone has messed up their eyes looking for the baby watermelon, here is the right pic: I promise there is one is this one.
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Now here is my newest eggplant, planted in a GP with jungle grow and seems to be doing fairly well thus far:
Here are my tomatoes, eggplants, peppers:
Here are more pics of what happens to plants that get scorched, then drowned then hit with bugs and then sorched and drowned again:
More damaged goods:
These things are starting to scare me here, they are getting so close to the ground, I fear I might have a yard broom soon:
My 3 okra boxes seems to be okay with the crazy weather, it's producing just fine.
Here is the craziness going on with the 5 gallon grow bags, they have all stopped producing: or slowed down quite a bit anyways:
So; the only thing I'm really hanging on to is the hope of melons right now, and I want them badly; but, I think the rest is almost over for the toms and the eggplants, and peppers, except the one tomato transplant in the tote in coconut coir, it has sprung back to life after transplanting and the newly planted eggplants, and my okra of course, everything else looks ick! I'm now fighting birds for cherry tomatoes. The melons I have planted in coconut coir in lay flat bags, the one I planted in the other bag with jungle grow has done dried up and wilted away; so has a few of the melons in another coconut coir bag; but, I still have about 5 melon plants flowering like crazy.
Next time, I will have a built in staking system, I will not grow these kinds of toms in my topsys and revolutionary's again, they need bush types I believe, not ground sweeper vine kinds, and I will build some huge cucumber trellises. I won't use the totes as HEBs as the drain holes need to be cleared continously and now with the birds? I will string reflecting aluminum foil and possibly bird netting over everything, should they attack my melon, they are goners. LOL
Over the long haul, the coconut coir did the best out of the mediums, and I think it can be used in the EBs successfully, if you look at the first pic and notice something? I took that tom from a layflat bag of coir, transplanted it into a HEB tote of straight coir (with dolomite lime and epsom and fertlizer strip of course), and that had been the tote my cabbage came out of, it looks like the foilage is greener than the rest and it might make it, with my luck though, it is probably chocolate cherry tomatoes of which I'm sick of at this point. LOL I want big tomatoes and even though I've gotten quite a few, well, I think summer season is almost over with for me, looking forward to fall/winter and spring from now on. Have I decided to quit gardening in the summer? Nope, I like toms, peppers, cukes, melons and eggplants too much.
joy
Joy,
I have about 20 okra seedlings under flourescent lights that need to go outside this weekend! I was looking at your HEBs, trying to count how many okra plants you have in each one. Can't figure it out, so how many in each one?
gymgirl: I have 10 plants in each HEB, making 30 okra plants. I really don't care for the burgandy ones like I thought I would, they are not really producing as well as the regular green ones do.
joy
This message was edited Jul 9, 2009 5:25 PM
hi, joy. thanks for sharing.
photo no. 1 - i used those cages for the EB tomatoes and they are not big enough to contain tomatoes (in my little micro-climate). it may be a contributing factor why my EB tomatoes look "stressed out" - - - they have spilled all over the place.
sorry to hear about your plants' drought-drown-drought-drown cycle.
sincerely,
annapet