Worth's 2017 Accidental Garden. - Page 15

Gardeneer · May 10, 2017

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Originally Posted by Worth1

Decided to go with Georgia rattlesnake watermelon, national pickling cucumber and more dill.

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I am growing Sugar Baby watermelons. I call them personal WM.

I am also growing Honeydew melons. Sweet melons are my favorite.
The corn is growing tassel.
My okras (some of them ) have some kind of disease or maybe wind damage to big leave.

Worth1 · May 10, 2017

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Originally Posted by Gardeneer

I am growing Sugar Baby watermelons. I call them personal WM.

I am also growing Honeydew melons. Sweet melons are my favorite.
The corn is growing tassel.
My okras (some of them ) have some kind of disease or maybe wind damage to big leave.

No worries on the okra I had some like the too they will grow out of it.
I came home to the Boston pickling sprouting and a colorful stink bug maybe in the yard.
The four transplants of okra are doing fine.
People would gasp out how I did it.

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Worth1 · May 10, 2017

Raking all of the leaves, letting the soil dry out at night in the beds, not watering anything around the beds and the Bug-Geta has really put a damper on Snailtropolis and neighboring Slugville.
Without doing this I wouldn't have anything in the garden beds.
As a matter of fact I have the whole sprinkler system shut off.
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jillian · May 10, 2017

Wow I have never seen a stinkbug like that! I hate them but I must say that one is so colorful it's almost pretty. Worth has invented his own species of stinking lol

jillian · May 10, 2017

That was spose to be stinkbug.....this tablet does it's own thing

Worth1 · May 10, 2017

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Originally Posted by jillian

That was spose to be stinkbug.....this tablet does it's own thing

My phone does too people will just have to figure out what I am saying sometimes.
Tired of editing.

I have never seen a bug like that in my life and I didn't kill it.
Looks like an art deco bug.
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AlittleSalt · May 10, 2017

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Originally Posted by Worth1

My phone does too people will just have to figure out what I am saying sometimes.
Tired of editing.

I have never seen a bug like that in my life and I didn't kill it.
Looks like an art deco bug.
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The bug has a royal crown on its back. I haven't seen one of those either.

Gardeneer · May 10, 2017

That is out of this world maybe exotic.
I have stink bugs, I know how they look like.

Furgit editin. A liddele typo is nut a big deal. I do taht all the thyme.

Worth1 · May 11, 2017

Probably the latest plague upon the land fresh off the boat from Asia.

My Vitex AKA chaste berry AKA monk pepper trees are in full bloom and tried to take a pictuer but for some reason the color is washed out.
The honey bees, bumble bees and wasps are feeding on them.
The reason they are called that is because the seeds taste and look something like black pepper and are loaded with estrogen.
Supposedly the monks ate them to help lower their sinful carnal desires.

Keeping with Heirloom tradition the Georgia Rattlesnake watermelon is from the 1830's.
I dont know haw far back the Tender Sweet watermelon goes but it is an heirloom too.

Every year I have tried to grow watermelons here there has been some sort of flop and never have produced one.
Hoping for the best this year.
This year it is new locations and methods.
The shade is killing me in many places.
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Worth1 · May 11, 2017

I think I'm going to get two more bags of the MG raised bed soil for the last tub and plant cantaloupe and honey dew melon.
A wee bit late but we have a long growing season.
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Worth1 · May 11, 2017

Got two 2 cubic foot bags of Kellogg's raised bed soil mix and added the last bag of MG raised bed soil stuff and the rest of the Perlite to the last 40 gallon tub.
I mixed in 8 handfuls of Plant Tone to the top half of the container.
I planted some hybrid honeydew and what Burpees called Crenshaw cantaloupe.
The pictuer showed what looked like a cantaloupe but a crenshaw doesnt look like a cantaloupe.
What ever, the seeds are they are planted and I dont really give a hoot.
In the middle I planted cinnamon basil and genovese basil.
Oh yes the dill is coming up in the first container.

We shall see how this works.

Worth1 · May 12, 2017

Right after I got all the seeds planted a big gust of wind came up and scattered the remaining seeds everywhere.
Then it came a rainstorm last night.
You couldn't ask for better timing.

Worth1 · May 13, 2017

The National Pickling cucumbers I planted the other day are sprouting and the mystery cucumber in the okra has two male blooms on it.
More dill has came up in another place.
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Worth1 · May 13, 2017

About the time I was going to give up looking for my dial and spray and buy another one I found it.

I just acidified the garden this morning with vinegar.
This should make the cow horn okra jump.

AlittleSalt · May 13, 2017

I used a sprayer this morning. I had forgotten that one of the two no longer works, so of course I made the fungicide up in the one that doesn't. I had to swap out hose and sprayer assemblies.

May 10, 2017	#8
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,916	That is out of this world maybe exotic. I have stink bugs, I know how they look like. Furgit editin. A liddele typo is nut a big deal. I do taht all the thyme. __________________ Gardeneer Happy Gardening !

May 10, 2017	#3
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Raking all of the leaves, letting the soil dry out at night in the beds, not watering anything around the beds and the Bug-Geta has really put a damper on Snailtropolis and neighboring Slugville. Without doing this I wouldn't have anything in the garden beds. As a matter of fact I have the whole sprinkler system shut off. Worth

May 10, 2017	#4
jillian Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: North Carolina Posts: 880	Wow I have never seen a stinkbug like that! I hate them but I must say that one is so colorful it's almost pretty. Worth has invented his own species of stinking lol

May 11, 2017	#9
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Probably the latest plague upon the land fresh off the boat from Asia. My Vitex AKA chaste berry AKA monk pepper trees are in full bloom and tried to take a pictuer but for some reason the color is washed out. The honey bees, bumble bees and wasps are feeding on them. The reason they are called that is because the seeds taste and look something like black pepper and are loaded with estrogen. Supposedly the monks ate them to help lower their sinful carnal desires. Keeping with Heirloom tradition the Georgia Rattlesnake watermelon is from the 1830's. I dont know haw far back the Tender Sweet watermelon goes but it is an heirloom too. Every year I have tried to grow watermelons here there has been some sort of flop and never have produced one. Hoping for the best this year. This year it is new locations and methods. The shade is killing me in many places. Worth

May 12, 2017	#12
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Right after I got all the seeds planted a big gust of wind came up and scattered the remaining seeds everywhere. Then it came a rainstorm last night. You couldn't ask for better timing.

May 13, 2017	#13
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	The National Pickling cucumbers I planted the other day are sprouting and the mystery cucumber in the okra has two male blooms on it. More dill has came up in another place. Worth

May 13, 2017	#15
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	I used a sprayer this morning. I had forgotten that one of the two no longer works, so of course I made the fungicide up in the one that doesn't. I had to swap out hose and sprayer assemblies.