Well, we've had nearly 3 weeks of rain and gloomy weather here. As such I've spent very little time in the garden.
Yesterday was beautiful and I managed to sneak into the garden for a couple hours of needed maintenance. Tied up some tomatoes, picked some weeds, re-trained the cucumbers back onto the trellis...
I also found that my squash all have this fuzzy, sporey looking mold stuff on some of their leaves. I clipped those off. My cucumbers have the same thing so I clipped those off. My tomatoes all have blight to on degree or another. On one tomato the blight had taken the whole branch + part of the stem so I grabbed and exacto knife and cut out the bad stuff, right into the stem. Covered it up with some duct tape. Figured that the plants a goner anyways, if this helps the green tomatoes turn ripe, then it's worthwhile. Last year I found out about the fun of blight first hand... lost a whole lot of tomatoes to it.
Then I noticed that the rain had caused quite a few of my kohlrabi and beets to split, which was mildly unexpected - I knew I was going to lose a lot of tomatoes, which I did; but I expected those two hard root type of plants to be fine. Now I wonder about my carrots.
I also noticed that nearly all of my peppers have a problem. They all have little pieces of their branches and leaves (sometimes with a pepper attached) that have dried out and are woody. It looks like some form of pepper blight, yay.
Plus, although my garden has a wide variety of plants in a small space, I have an aphid infestation across most of my peppers. I put out ant traps as I know aphids are farmed by ant's. I bought a big bottle of safers soap and went to town on my potted peppers. Got everything soaking wet. Hopefully that helps. I left the peppers in the garden to mother nature. Lets see if she helps.
And finally... the mice are back. They've eaten 3 green tomatoes that I can see so far. But I have hundreds of green tomatoes on the vines still so I know they'll be back. Joyous!
Ahhh, and I was saying having a garden was stress relieving, lol
Yesterday was beautiful and I managed to sneak into the garden for a couple hours of needed maintenance. Tied up some tomatoes, picked some weeds, re-trained the cucumbers back onto the trellis...
I also found that my squash all have this fuzzy, sporey looking mold stuff on some of their leaves. I clipped those off. My cucumbers have the same thing so I clipped those off. My tomatoes all have blight to on degree or another. On one tomato the blight had taken the whole branch + part of the stem so I grabbed and exacto knife and cut out the bad stuff, right into the stem. Covered it up with some duct tape. Figured that the plants a goner anyways, if this helps the green tomatoes turn ripe, then it's worthwhile. Last year I found out about the fun of blight first hand... lost a whole lot of tomatoes to it.
Then I noticed that the rain had caused quite a few of my kohlrabi and beets to split, which was mildly unexpected - I knew I was going to lose a lot of tomatoes, which I did; but I expected those two hard root type of plants to be fine. Now I wonder about my carrots.
I also noticed that nearly all of my peppers have a problem. They all have little pieces of their branches and leaves (sometimes with a pepper attached) that have dried out and are woody. It looks like some form of pepper blight, yay.
Plus, although my garden has a wide variety of plants in a small space, I have an aphid infestation across most of my peppers. I put out ant traps as I know aphids are farmed by ant's. I bought a big bottle of safers soap and went to town on my potted peppers. Got everything soaking wet. Hopefully that helps. I left the peppers in the garden to mother nature. Lets see if she helps.
And finally... the mice are back. They've eaten 3 green tomatoes that I can see so far. But I have hundreds of green tomatoes on the vines still so I know they'll be back. Joyous!
Ahhh, and I was saying having a garden was stress relieving, lol
