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BlandMeow

BlandMeow

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@xtsho what is the mix for citric acid spray? I've got the granulated in the grow room and kitchen.

Getting a little natural insulation with small amount of snow. Going to harvest the rest of the carrots and have some with dinner tonight. Took a peek at the garlic under the leaf mulch and the sprouts are about an inch or two high and have room to go before they break through. Hoping for another good crop this year. Planted 70 of the same variety as last year and traded for some elephant garlic and Russian red from a friend to try out.

Going to throw some straw over the strawberry beds this weekend before we get too hard of a freeze. The cold weather so far should have done its thing.

Going to put together my seed order and plan out what I'm growing next year. I may completely avoid tomatoes. I really don't have a good place to rotate them and last year was a terrible year for me with disease and pest. May just do a couple determinate in containers on the pool patio instead of in the main garden.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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BlandMeow said:
@xtsho what is the mix for citric acid spray? I've got the granulated in the grow room and kitchen.

Getting a little natural insulation with small amount of snow. Going to harvest the rest of the carrots and have some with dinner tonight. Took a peek at the garlic under the leaf mulch and the sprouts are about an inch or two high and have room to go before they break through. Hoping for another good crop this year. Planted 70 of the same variety as last year and traded for some elephant garlic and Russian red from a friend to try out.

Going to throw some straw over the strawberry beds this weekend before we get too hard of a freeze. The cold weather so far should have done its thing.

Going to put together my seed order and plan out what I'm growing next year. I may completely avoid tomatoes. I really don't have a good place to rotate them and last year was a terrible year for me with disease and pest. May just do a couple determinate in containers on the pool patio instead of in the main garden.
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Most measurements are 2.5-3 tsp per quart. However, I have received feedback from some that used it on cannabis and had some minor leaf damage. I've never had any issue with that concentration on any plant so It's best to do a sample spray and wait a day. I don't know why others would have an issue but I don't know exactly what they were doing.

There shouldn't be any issue with that concentration on outdoor vegetables.
 
injinji

injinji

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I had to move a tray of peppers outside due to space considerations. But they will be underground and under glass. (and I'll be rigging up a light in case we get any real cold) It's mostly hatch with a few Cali Wonder bells and fewer still cayenne.

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xtsho

xtsho

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injinji said:
Speaking of getting an early start. . . . . .

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    Extra good for peppers, tomatoes, peas and other vine crops. Fine for planting any aboveground crop where the climate permits.
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Where climate permits. The only way I'm starting peppers on those days is indoors under lights. :(
 
injinji

injinji

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xtsho said:
Where climate permits. The only way I'm starting peppers on those days is indoors under lights. :(
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I'm keeping mine inside under light a couple three weeks, then putting them underground with a little supplemental lighting. Several kinds of peppers and tomatoes didn't due well with the last planting, so I may replant in the same trays again tonight.

I was just talking to the wife about the two shower doors we got when we bought the river house. I could extend my current setup, or dig a new one closer to the house (and electricity). Right now everything is in coffee cups. As soon as I go to gallon pots, I'm going to have a lot less room.
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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I live in zone 4. Last February 1st I started all my tomatoes peppers eggplants even though it's not really ok to plant outside until June lol. I will never do that again. It was fun and I had one of my best gardens ever but wife would kill me. I was planting Tom's with actual fruit ripening and flowering eggplant in April.

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GreenestBasterd

GreenestBasterd

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It was all going so well…
 

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GreenestBasterd

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It was 32degrees then we had a storm with winds like I’ve never seen, dumped about half a foot of hail, destroyed the garden, tree hit the house, bust one car and damaged another all in about 7 minutes!!!
Me and the mrs were only saying we were running out of space for new plants…
 

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M.O.

M.O.

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GreenestBasterd said:
It was 32degrees then we had a storm with winds like I’ve never seen, dumped about half a foot of hail, destroyed the garden, tree hit the house, bust one car and damaged another all in about 7 minutes!!!
Me and the mrs were only saying we were running out of space for new plants…
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Damn that is heart wrenching. You gotta have a super deep/strong heart to garden in my opinion. Weather and bugs can destroy it so fast.

After that though you might be surprised at what survives. With our world changing I even get tomatoes that reseed themselves every year which I thought impossible for zone 5.

I hope more survives than you’re thinking did. Your produce looks so good! You’re rebuild will be even better.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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The seed racks are out with 2022 seeds.

I've got tons of seeds I stored from last year but all my stuff is open pollinated and I wanted to make sure I had the real deal with a few varieties. I want to grow some huge Walla Walla onions and not end up with some cross of a Red Torpedo or just plain yellow onion. That and the fact that I couldn't stop myself from spending 20 minutes looking at seeds. It would have been longer but the lady had seen all she needed to in the garden section. They didn't have any Mortgage Lifter seeds which is what I was hoping to find. The tomatoes were already cleaned out.

 
xtsho

xtsho

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I got the Territorial and Burpee catalogs this week. The Burpee went straight to the recycle bin. I'll grow Burpee but they have them at the store. I've been waiting on the Seeds of Italy catalog but got impatient and went to their website and downloaded the pdf version. Not that I'm going to buy anything but I like to look.
 
injinji

injinji

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I'm starting to get a few sprouts on the 2nd round of the tomatoes. Nothing yet from the peppers. I had to move tomatoes and peppers due to space issues. The early pepper sprouts I had put under glass mostly died. I have a light rigged up now. Running it for a couple of hours in the middle of the night for warmth.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i just started some peppers and tomatoes, the weather here has been off the last few years, used to be able to put stuff out by tax day every year and not worry about frost, now its the middle of may before you can really be sure, so i'm starting stuff incrementally, and i know these peppers will self pollinate if spring is late
 
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