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Member since: Mar 10 | Last seen: Mar 13 | Years gardening: 15
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04 Aug 2012Zucchini '8 ball' Setting Fruit, Summer squash, tatauma/tataume Harvesting, and Squash, Table dainty Dying
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So first, an update on stink bugs. So far, I’ve got 5 traps deployed along the perimeter of the yard. The 4 along the back fence line, particularly the ones in the silver maple and choke cherry trees, are bringing in a lot of bugs. Despite the early start, I’m still seeing mostly nymp...Hazy 32°C / 90°F -
23 Jun 2012Squash, Table dainty , Zucchini 'Raven Hybrid' , and Summer squash, tatauma/tataume
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Cloudy 30°C / 86°FHere in my garden, it is now prime time to check my squash plants for squash bug eggs. By finding the egg clusters and removing them by hand, I can reduce the future population by quite a bit without any pesticides. I did this tonight, and it turned out to be ideal, I found 8 clusters of eggs, an...
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31 May 2012pea, Frosty Ripening and Tomato, Solar Power
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On the garden front, things are generally going well. One of the tomato plants, solar power, is having issues where some leaves on the lower branches are yellowing out. Not sure if this is the first stage of a blight, or just a nutrient deficiency, but time and a little fertilizer will prove tha...Cloudy 29°C / 84°F -
13 May 2012
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Taking the stinkbug fight outside..
Rainy 27°C / 81°FOk, so today I found a few stink bugs hanging out on the choke cherry tree. Since they’re already there, and that tree is in an “out of the way” part of the yard, I put my first outdoor baited trap up in that tree. Last year I deployed the traps near my crops, which did result i...
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10 May 2012
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Sunny 20°C / 68°FI found the first tomato of the season on my early girl tomato plant last night. I also checked in on some of the cauliflower, and they are doing well.
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01 May 2012
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So between today and this weekend I’ve planted about halfo of my main garden crop, and most of my herbs. This year, I’m limiting the tomato plants, and only putting them in the main garden. I’m also favoring earlier cropping varieties, in hopes of harvesting a few before the hor...Cloudy 28°C / 82°F -
01 Apr 2012
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Cloudy 19°C / 66°F
Ok, so this is more of a lawn article than a garden article, but this year almost everyone I know in Maryland is having a mass invasion of hairy bittercress in their yard.
Here it’s in my lawn, flowerbeds, garden, planter boxes, it’s just absolutely everywhere. Since this spread from ...
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26 Mar 2012
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stink bug battle, starting early for 2012
Cauliflower, snow crown and raised bed 1 gardenCloudy 15°C / 59°F
So, we’ve had an early warm-up this year (although tonight we’re getting a cold snap). This has started waking up a few stink bugs that were overwintering in the attic, etc.
So, about 3-4 weeks ago I was having stink bugs and bean beetles show up in the master bath, so I stuffed a Res...
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25 Jul 2011squash, tataume Under Attack, Squash, Odessa Dying, Squash, table dainty Under Attack, and raised bed 1 gar...
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Looks like most of my squashes were attacked by borers when I wasn’t looking for them. Both balmoral’s had a couple borers in them, I slit the stem and extracted the worm. Table dainty and Tataume had several, and I had to remove several large chunks of fine from one of the I’m...32°C / 89°F -
16 Jul 2011
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29°C / 84°FOk, so I’ve got mixed impressions of the rescue traps. The first trap caught a bug within 3 hours, but hasn’t caught anything since. That said, the tomato it was on has been relatively stink-bug free, so I moved it to the squashes today. The second and third traps caught nothing for d...
