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May 27, 2013 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
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My San Diego Garden on Memorial Day 2013
I thought I'd post some update pictures for my backyard garden as it looks today (Memorial Day). The latest development is that my hubby finished building the 5th screened-in house last week. Hooray!! Pictures 1 and 2 are in-progress shots and picture 3 is the finished house with plants in it.
I'm growing only cherries in the main, unprotected lower yard (pictures 4 and 5), and I'm hoping that the rats don't discover them. In years past, they would go for the larger tomatoes first, and seemed to ignore the cherries mostly. So I'm hoping that will be the case this summer. The 5 screened-in houses contain the plants with larger tomatoes. Picture 6 shows one of the houses with plants that were put out in early April. Picture 7 is a Magyar Piros Boker plant. It's a beautiful plant -- nice tree-like trunk and good-sized tomatoes. My first time growing it, so I hope they taste as good as they look! We've got room for one more screen house on the upper level, and that is the next project my husband is going to tackle. So far I have about 225 plants in the yard, with another 40 for my fall crop that will go out in late June. Now I just need to keep the bugs and fungus away! Lyn |
May 27, 2013 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
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That greenhouse is awesome! Love the pictures. Keep us posted!
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May 27, 2013 | #3 |
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Lyn,
Beautiful! You are going to have a good summer! |
May 27, 2013 | #4 |
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Wonderful!
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May 27, 2013 | #5 |
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It all looks really, really fabulous !
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May 28, 2013 | #6 |
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Wow, that greenhouse looks awesome!
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May 28, 2013 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
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Wow, what a great setup Lyn! What a talented husband you have
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May 28, 2013 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
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Thank you all for the kind words! Yes, luckily, my husband likes to build stuff -- getting him to do the dishes and pick up his socks? Not so much
Lyn |
May 28, 2013 | #9 | |
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BTW Do you have issues keeping it all cool in the heat of summer?
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May 28, 2013 | #10 |
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Lyn, it's great to see your hard work start to pay off, everything looks great!
What did you end up using for the control of Gray Mold? Steve |
May 28, 2013 | #11 | |
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You're right about the dishes -- I'll gladly do them. Now the smelly socks? That's too much! Yes, we'll have heat issues later in the summer. Last year we partially covered the houses with shade cloth, which helped. This year, we've purchased a lot more cloth and will cover everything if possible. Since the largest houses are up on the incline, they do get quite a bit more breeze than plants down below, which helps some. |
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May 28, 2013 | #12 | |
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Steve, I sprayed with Bill's (B54red) bleach spray, which seemed to stop most of it. Then I sprayed with Neem a few days later. I lost one plant, which prior to the mold outbreak was looking very healthy and then overnight the entire plant wilted and fell. When I pulled it away from the others, I saw that it had a large part of the main stem covered with the mold. It might have died from something else, but since no others developed the wilting, I figured it must have been the mold. All the others that were looking bad with the mold recovered. It was only in the one house that was converted from a greenhouse and still had 1/3 of its polycarbonate panels in place. I had used that house as a regular greenhouse during the winter with all polycarb panels in place. Just not enough air circulation in there. Now I've got a fan going and the rest of the panels removed. Thanks for looking! Lyn |
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May 28, 2013 | #13 |
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Its all looking FANTASTIC Lyn! So very nice and orderly and pretty. I like the stain on the wood that your Husband used on the lath houses. Very nicely done!
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May 29, 2013 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Thanks Cran!
The stain is Cabot's Mahogany Fire from Lowes. It really does a good job to make Doug Fir look good |
May 30, 2013 | #15 |
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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This thread makes me wish my hubby was a handyman, those are very nice greenhouses- they seem to take advantage of the slope in your yard so you can use the space a bit better, almost like a glass-covered terrace.
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