End of garden post

 

Hello,

I'm hoping for some input. I'm pretty much done gardening this year.  .
I've got a few tomatoes and peppers left.  My eggplants did awesome. I'm
looking forward to next year already and my improvements.  Here's my biggest
issue to overcome. I cant tell when my veggies are ready to be pulled. I
left the corn too long to the point the kernals  got a little crinkly and
soft.  The eggplants were lenient but should of been pulled.    Some lettuce
bolted then I realized it was time.   Some yellow tomatoes got real soft
last month. .  I pulled some onion sets real early.  Then lost the rest to
weeds mostly.

I've managed to get the weeds in check . The piles of hay  and ground cover
actually worked really well.  Ruth Stout wasn't full of crap. My work load
on weeds. was down about 75% .

Bug issues were not an issue . I only had bugs on fallen tomatoes. Flea
beetles early on  the eggplants.  And Japanese beetles were held in check by
sacrificing the grapes for the corn.

I have more trouble with ants in the house then bugs in the garden.

 



 Look into oil of Pennyroyal which deters and sugar with boric acid
which kills.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
 
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php?lng=fr&acc=true  
 

 




Terro ant killer is sugar/boric acid, works well. Wallmart carries it.
Or you can mix your own.

Cheers
 

 

DogDiesel wrote:

 Some are ready when immature, some when mature but time isn't very
critical, some should be just right.  There are "rules" for determining when
some are ready but these are not always so easy for everybody to apply.
Mainly it's a matter of practice and fitting your growing and eating habits
together.


I left the corn too long to the

This one comes up every few months, look through some history of the NG.


When the rate of growth slows nearly to a stop cut them, the size that this
will be depends on conditions and cultivar.


Everybody gets caught on this sometimes.  One day they look fine, next day
bolted.  Try continuously cutting the outer leaves, you get plenty of salad
and when they come to the end you haven't lost anything. More open cultivars
are better for this.  Also you will have less problem if you avoid growing
lettuce in the heat of summer.


For some fruits like tomatoes colour is a pretty reliable guide to ripeness.

I pulled some onion sets real early.  Then lost the rest to

I don't know Ruth but mulch is almost always good.


You are lucky.

David

 

On 9/15/2010 8:49 PM, DogDiesel wrote:

Ditto's with the ants but surrounding the house foundations with the ant
poisons got rid of them.

The current bug bothering us is the stink bug.  Lower temperatures are
bringing them indoors where they hide until spring.