Gardens anyone?

[fishinator]

Anyone have a recommendation of a non-toxic pesticide? I have multiple problems in my garden.  Slug chomped on my broccoli and my pepper plants have several holes in them. My zucchini plants just came up and they are full of holes and dying. I'm in danger of losing almost everything.

[fishinator]

I have tried a few home remedies and have picked slugs by hand but I can't keep up. Not sure whats eating my other plants.

[seamonkey84]

I had 80 mph winds come through in a thunderstorm yesterday and snapped off some limbs of my tomato plants. 

To show you how strong the wind was this is a homemade steel flagpole.

Wow those are some strong winds.

Question for those that have ordered plants before. Is it normal for live potted plants to be shipped ground, in transit for a week? How well do they make it? My first plant ordered through amazon was shipped 2nd day, Gurneys just sent my tracking info and it says it’ll take a week...

[rgfixit]

Anyone have a recommendation of a non-toxic pesticide? I have multiple problems in my garden.  Slug chomped on my broccoli and my pepper plants have several holes in them. My zucchini plants just came up and they are full of holes and dying. I'm in danger of losing almost everything.

I use Garden Safe /lug and Snail killer. It works very well. It's supposed to be organically reviewed and approved. Lowes, Wally World or online.

Tried all the so called sure fire methods using home made stuff...beer traps etc.

They don't work like this stuff.
Rg

[fishinator]

I have caught quite a few slugs in the beer traps but they are still everywhere. Now that we are pretty much off lockdown the kids are getting busy with ball. No time to pick them off by hand.

[Raquettedacker]

Sprinkle salt on them slugs.   Its cool to watch them melt.. Kinda like the witch in the wizard of oz. 
 Everyone use to think the salt shaker in the old Italians back pocket was for ripe tomatoes but it was for slugs. 
 You can put a ring of it a couple inches away from the bottom of the plant...

[Raquettedacker]

As far as the zucchini and any other hollow vine plants look up the Squash Vine Borer.. 

[Raquettedacker]

Planted mums ..











  And that's only 1/2 so far..

[rgfixit]

That's a lot of mums!

I was watering my garden and giving the sedum a shot of water when these two bunnies squirted out into the lawn.




 About 4" long I'd say. Mom is around so I left them where they were..

Cute little buggers. Gonna have to be careful when I mow tomorrow.

Rg

[Raquettedacker]

Been a lot of bunnies running around this year...
 And fawns everywhere........
This one was by the garden a couple weeks ago..

[rgfixit]

Cool! I watched a couple fawns romping around the soccer fields where I start my walk. They were full of life.

Diatomaceous earth with help with the slugs as well. Just have to re-treat  after rain. Works on any crawling insects. To them it's like crossing shards of glass.

Rg

[ActiveTrapChecker]

To prune or not to prune, that is the question....

I am a novice, picked up gardening after my daughter joined the garden club. Been a couple years now.

When it comes to indeterminate tomatoes, does anyone prune them, or just let them go? For years I have pruned, but after researching that may not be the way to go.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

[rgfixit]

Indeterminate tomatoes..... I prune off the suckers.  That's about all. Others do way more with success.

Rg

[ActiveTrapChecker]

Indeterminate tomatoes..... I prune off the suckers.  That's about all. Others do way more with success.

Rg

Good to know, appreciate it!

[taxid]

Does anyone do soil testing themselves? I got a soil test kit that was a piece of junk obviously made in China, so spent more for a much better LaMotte test.

I'm kind of geek tester that likes to test the swim spa, my ponds, and now the gardens.