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Thread #126160   Message #2931512
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
20-Jun-10 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
Leo, I go out and pollinate by hand this time of year. It's the only way to get fruits. Usually if it stays at 80o or higher overnight, they won't pollinate. So I go around with my cotton swab and squirt on some of the blossom setting stuff you can buy, and I get sterile tomatoes. It's this way every year. But before it got this hot, they just didn't set as much fruit as usual.

I found lace bugs on the underside of the sunflowers. They've all but killed a small one. They usually get in the eggplant, but I guess they like the sunflower even better. Now to get them off of the sunflowers without moving over en masse to the eggplant.

Working some more on my keyhole garden today. I've built it up so it actually is beginning to look interesting. But this hasn't been a one-day project, I'm pacing myself and may be able to plant one part of it soon. I'm filling it with stuff I'm digging from the front bed (the new one) so I know it will end up full of Bermuda for a while. The diggings are going in the very bottom layer, but Bermuda is amazing, in how deep it can go.

SRS