Gardening question
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05/08/21 04:34 PM
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Can cabbage plants withstand a frost or should they be covered?
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Re: Gardening question
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05/08/21 05:11 PM
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Cabbage moth caterpillars are your next new enemy. Maybe not if your first time planting that location. They are why kraut is made.
Floating row covers, BT, and seven dust are the cures, in that order.
Still frosty here too, lighting stove now.
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Re: Gardening question
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Brussels sprout my fav, had two winter over and collected the seed. Reminds me to start some. I could easily trade some those seed, I did germ test but not sure how they do. F3?
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Re: Gardening question
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Ok, here's another garden question.
Big rain coming, maybe. TS Elsa Anyways.
I have cantaloupes about 7-10 days til ripe. I have tomatoes in the same range. Been cutting the water back on the cantaloupes so they can be sweeter. If we get a big rain, both of them will crack/pop. Anybody got any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening? Not much. Tomatoes can be picked at breaker stage. Not much you can do with cantaloupe other than getting them up off the wet ground by sliding some sort of pad or cradle under them to get them out of the mud. If they are anywhere near slip the sugar is set already.
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Re: Gardening question
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The card that came with my cabbage plants said they do well in early and late season, so I would assume that means they can take and even thrive in colder weather. Insects are starting to take their toll on mine. I have never been able to grow broccoli without using gross amounts of pesticides, something I won't do, and I am hoping the cabbage doesn't end up the same way. Yes, they thrive in cool weather. Down here they overwinter just fine. Mater of fact now is the time for us to start seeds for the fall crop that'll be harvested well into January. Then set out plants in February for the spring crop.
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Re: Gardening question
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Ok, here's another garden question.
Big rain coming, maybe. TS Elsa Anyways.
I have cantaloupes about 7-10 days til ripe. I have tomatoes in the same range. Been cutting the water back on the cantaloupes so they can be sweeter. If we get a big rain, both of them will crack/pop. Anybody got any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening? Plunge a spade shovel into the soil on one side of the plants.
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Re: Gardening question
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I was taught to go around tomato plants with a shovel, about a foot away from stem. Shove shovel full blade into ground in a circle around plant . Limits water up take and triggers tomatoes to al ripen on that plant. Grew up helping Grandparents grow for their produce stand.
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Re: Gardening question
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The cabbage was fine, my wife made slaw and sauerkraut the other day.
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Re: Gardening question
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I was taught to go around tomato plants with a shovel, about a foot away from stem. Shove shovel full blade into ground in a circle around plant . Limits water up take and triggers tomatoes to al ripen on that plant. Grew up helping Grandparents grow for their produce stand. I'm sure that will stop all intake of water, as you will be cutting the roots.
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Re: Gardening question
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07/07/21 06:28 PM
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I was taught to go around tomato plants with a shovel, about a foot away from stem. Shove shovel full blade into ground in a circle around plant . Limits water up take and triggers tomatoes to al ripen on that plant. Grew up helping Grandparents grow for their produce stand. I'm sure that will stop all intake of water, as you will be cutting the roots. No not all of the water, I said a foot away from plant. When I pull plants at end of season the major root ball is within the 1 foot circle. Reducing water uptake during my ripening time for tomatoes has stopped splitting 100 % for me. This has worked for me. I have even tried it next to plants that I didn't spade around. The untouched plant split. I even think it improved taste, with firmer tomatoes.
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