Recent content by Galveston340

  I have seen them down at our Pecan orchard where my brother has his half acre garden. The stink bugs wrought havoc on his tomatoes just as they have done in the past with our Pecans. They will inject something into the fruit that in the case of the tomatoes causes them to have light green...

...ya got something wrong there that's for sure.

I have the same thing on some of my smaller plants that I haven't transplanted and moved down to our Pecan orchard. we had over 10" of rain down here near Galveston these last few weeks and the ones here at the house got hammered. The larger plants I have moved already to the orchard and are...

  Hope everything is OK with Her MIke.

I picked up this 50x100 greenhouse last month for a steal. Fans,electrically actuated vents, Lp gas heater that I will probably never have to use, and the guy threw in new plastic to recover it. I have it moved down to our Pecan orchard west of Galveston and will have it up and running well...

  Doesn't most of Houston's water come from Lake Houston or do they still have some surface wells?

They have all germinated it looks like and already have their second set of leaves. There isn't any need for a heating pad once they first pop up!!

I have found that about the best and most efficient way to add beneficial microbes to any soil mix you are either preparing yourself or purchasing is to add Worm castings to your mix. I make up my own planting soils here for both seedlings as well as final stage plant growth and have found that...

I use half and half plus I add in some composted cow manure as it contains very finely shredded tree mulch.   I make my own compost here. I usually get some cheap but very good Texas made potting soil from the local hardware store that goes three 40lb bags for ten bucks...mix in some of my...

I have found that other than using a 6-12-6 liquid solution to dip the seedlings in before I transplant them into their grow out 7gal pots I don't have to use fertilizer of any kind. I mix my compost with topsoil and composted cow manure and they go to town with very prolific pod production.

I have to ask was this a regular heating pad for human use....or one designed for plants or reptiles?

Its been plenty warm down here on the Coast near Galveston, but we sure could use a break from this rain we have been having!

  Yep, its all from the store sadly. Since there were lawsuits when they were giving it away to food pantries it now goes into the dumpster at most places. I had some of my FB friends on the various pepper forums try to do the same thing and to a person they were told it had to be thrown out.

Here are a couple of pics I have here on the PC of what I use for making up the compost for addition to my soil mix. The veggies go onto the big piles i have down at our Pecan orchard where I have started moving some of my pepper plants to. The two smaller barrel containers are what I mix up my...

solid7, there is plenty of organic material other than just plain veggies in the mix to keep it breathable. I has to be just as you mentioned otherwise as you said it will compact after a period of time. I'll post up a pic or two later showing the consistency of the mix I work with. The 7gal...