Gardening Questions and Answers
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Why aren't my tomatoes setting fruit?
Better Boy Tomato RipeningSunny 26°C / 79°FMy Better Boy tomato isn’t very “better.” It started out well, on the first set of flowers, 1 tomato. On the second set of flowers, 3 tomatoes. And that’s it. Any other sets of flowers – nothing. They just shrivel up and fall off. I had missed one sucker that went...
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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Jimmy the Cricket
Cricket or Not Breaking Dormancy, Wildlife garden , and Beloved Rose BloomingOvercast 26°C / 79°FGuess who’s coming to dinner? And guess what’s for dinner? My Beloved Rose leaves. I wonder how much harm this guy can do over time? Jimmy the Cricket http://www.essortment.com/all/cricketinsects_rgfe.htm
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Ornamental: Hemerocallis fulva (guerilla parkway southwest) Budding
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Sunny 32°C / 90°FHi fellow gardeners, Help identifying the problem on this pussy willow would be appreciated. It appears in late spring after blooming has finished. First appearance shows as raised 1-3 mm diameter orange or rusty spheres. By early summer they have lost their color and seem to flatten out. Heavily...
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Watermelon - Legacy Setting Fruit and 2009 Spring Vegetable garden
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Sunny 38°C / 101°FI cannot believe that I have watermelon growing. For a long while the plants did not grow and then they looked like they were drying. Not the are growing and spreading everywhere. And I have found two watermelon the size of about a cantelope. I bought the seeds from WillhiteSeed.com They have ton...
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Garden Class Chives
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Here’s a pic of my chives from my garden class. I potted this in compost from the instructor as well. Some interesting plants have popped up alongside the chives, and given her lovely garden I am curious if this is a weed or an actual plant I’d like to keep. Of course this could ju...15°C / 59°F -
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Tomato pics + fertilizing question?
Peat Pot Tomato "Marglobe" , Peat Pot Tomato "Celebrity Bush Hybrid" , Tomato "Better Boy" Fertilising, Tom...Despite the rain/lack of sunshine, my tomato plants are getting huge! I hope they don’t get too much taller than these cages… I am going to pot up my tomatoes started from seed—I’m excited to see that they are ready! Also new buds continue to form on Mr. Stripey. Glad I ...15°C / 59°F -
Corn, Country Gentleman
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Cloudy 27°C / 80°FMy Country Gentleman corn, which was healthy, if small, a few days ago, now has about 80% of the plants with burnt-looking leaf ends, and a third of them have this shredded look to the leaves (this is the worst one). Anyone know possible cause/treatment? All my web searches are coming up with s...
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Tomato Showing True Leaves and In a pot on the patio garden
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2009
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My friend found a cat once and brought it home. It was homeless, dirty and sad. She washed it, fed it and made a cat bed for it. The next morning it turned out that the cat was pregnant and gave birth to five kittens. She now had six cats. I remembered this story as I gazed upon the pot full of 3...Sunny 28°C / 82°F -
Tomatoes Champion
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2009
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Planted tomatoes back in April – lots of large green tomatoes, but none have ripenend. Wondering if the last month of June Gloom cool weather has delayed harvest…Sunny 24°C / 75°F -
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Hey everyone! My name is Priscilla and I live in southeast Georgia. I’m new to the site. I am having a little trouble with my Dutch iris bulbs. I know a considerable amount about plants for a young person due to an extensive floriculture an horticulture background, and usually have no troub...Sunny 37°C / 98°F
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