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Thread #126160   Message #2924725
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
10-Jun-10 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
Looks like the tomatoes I planted from the nursery aren't making as many flowers as last year. I'm pollinating every other day with the stuff for setting fruit, using a q-tip, not spraying on each flower (that's a waste).

I don't think I'm going to get any decent squash or zucchini. The boring worms are too pernicious. I have lovely basil and am getting peppers, and there are fruit finally on the eggplants.

I sprayed orange oil and hydrogen peroxide this morning. The orange oil for the red mites starting in on the tomatoes, and the hydrogen peroxide to try to head off any more fungal activity. Early blight is going full tilt out there. I'm working on making healtier soil also, and have started adding some epsom salts along with corn gluten meal and dry molasses.

SRS