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Thread #126160   Message #2939628
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
04-Jul-10 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
You've got dibs on it, Bobert.

It hasn't rained here today, but it's early yet. My raised beds are holding their own and keeping the eggplants happy. The tomatoes are delirious (all over the place, I should thin them, but who thins tomatoes?)

Foliar feeding this morning, I picked up some of Howard Garrett's "Garrett Juice" (a mix of compost tea, liquid molasses, apple cider vinegar, and a couple of other good things) and mixed that with some fish and seaweed fertilizer, some Hastagrow fertilizer (not quite organic, but pretty close) and a measure of BT. I have a plant out front with a happy little tobacco horn worm eating away (it's a datura, no big deal, so I'm leaving him alone) but I don't want these guys in the veggie garden.

I pulled up a dead coriander and harvested a handful of seeds from it. Another handful of seeds was on the ground under it already, over where it gets a little light but is mostly shaded by the basil. Hopefully I'll get some coriander this season.

I transplanted some oregano to the bed out by the curb. I'd love it as a groundcover out there. The cicada killer wasps have been buzzing me because I disturbed some of the holes they dug under the oregano when I dug this up. They kind of big dopey bugs, one was going to buzz me but bumped into a basil plant and was buzzing angrily underneath a leaf for enough time that I moved out of it's way. :)

SRS