The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118665   Message #2663897
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
24-Jun-09 - 07:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening, 2009
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
Janie, all of my big tomatoes seem to have a hole of some kind. Small, but there. I trim it out. Cherry tomatoes are okay so far.

The corn has been visited by something that eats leaves and the tender growing shoots. I used a mix of BT and fertilizer for a foliar feeding the other day, we'll see if that helps. And I'll use some BT on the tomatoes as well. Not broadcast--it clobbers butterflies, I just want to kill the caterpillars that are damaging my food plants.

Creative watering as it goes over 100. Keeping things alive, not over watering, not using so much water my bill goes through the roof. Mostly I use soaker hoses. One I have to replace, it is leaking out the patch at the end.

Corriander is coming up, but I have trouble getting plants to grow in pots here. It's so hot they just cook.

Bobert, we've never met, but I could still imagine your total glee at running that deer into the fence to give it a good test. I bet you weren't driving silently, you were whooping up a storm! :)

SRS