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Re: THF Gardening Thread
[Re: presley]
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04/23/21 03:30 PM
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Derek
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Does anyone know where I can get some 5 gal, minimum, Texas Silver Sage around the Grapevine area? Texas Sage is pretty popular and should be easy to find. Maybe not 5 gal, but 3 gallon should be easy.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 03:36 PM
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Marinated salad anyone?
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 03:46 PM
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We got a little drizzle overnight. Hoping for any amount of rain today. My container tomato and jalapeño plants don’t care for the city water. true dat. Like Derek said could be ph (tap water alkaline) and often rain is slightly acidic - his citric acid tip is a good one. Here are two more: rainwater doesn't have any chlorine in it - let tap-water set in container a couple days before using for watering; rainwater has a little bit of nitrogen in it and is foliar feeding - likely to boost over just root-only feeding - save some clean rainwater for future foliar misting.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 04:12 PM
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We got a little drizzle overnight. Hoping for any amount of rain today. My container tomato and jalapeño plants don’t care for the city water. true dat. Like Derek said could be ph (tap water alkaline) and often rain is slightly acidic - his citric acid tip is a good one. Here are two more: rainwater doesn't have any chlorine in it - let tap-water set in container a couple days before using for watering; rainwater has a little bit of nitrogen in it and is foliar feeding - likely to boost over just root-only feeding - save some clean rainwater for future foliar misting. I’d love to save some rain water, but it has to rain first.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 04:27 PM
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Still getting the drizzle. I'm in and out.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 05:20 PM
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What are the best chemicals to get rid of cucumber beetles? The dang things have attacked my sweet corn. Malathion didn't do much to them and the new watered down version of liquid 7 doesn't seem to last long or have the same control as the old stuff used to. I have a fairly large garden (approx. 1 ac.) so I need something that's not cost prohibitive to apply in volume.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 05:37 PM
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 05:53 PM
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What are the best chemicals to get rid of cucumber beetles? The dang things have attacked my sweet corn. Malathion didn't do much to them and the new watered down version of liquid 7 doesn't seem to last long or have the same control as the old stuff used to. I have a fairly large garden (approx. 1 ac.) so I need something that's not cost prohibitive to apply in volume. I use Thuricide. Some recommend Sevin dust.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 06:07 PM
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Does anyone know where I can get some 5 gal, minimum, Texas Silver Sage around the Grapevine area? Texas Sage is pretty popular and should be easy to find. Maybe not 5 gal, but 3 gallon should be easy. Yeah, you would think but the local HD, Lowes, Walmarts etc., no go so was looking for any other garden centers. I wanted larger since they are replacing ones that died in an 8 foot hedgerow.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 06:24 PM
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Does anyone know where I can get some 5 gal, minimum, Texas Silver Sage around the Grapevine area? Texas Sage is pretty popular and should be easy to find. Maybe not 5 gal, but 3 gallon should be easy. Yeah, you would think but the local HD, Lowes, Walmarts etc., no go so was looking for any other garden centers. I wanted larger since they are replacing ones that died in an 8 foot hedgerow. Call mikes on 114 toward south lake
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 06:28 PM
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Derek
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Couple times I was looking for something specific Calloway's corporate office was helpful telling me which store had exactly what I wanted. (817) 222-1122
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 09:09 PM
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getting some good rainwater here now.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 09:48 PM
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getting some good rainwater here now. just started here too, perfect timing, just put in another small block of sweet-corn seed - (staggering it this year, so we don't 'get it all at once') also just put in 2 small 'experimental' patches of pepper seed - (from some seeds saved from last years ripe bell & jalapeno peppers) Also found 2 volunteer tomato plants - 3" high already, and coming up in great spots where I can leave them - just need cages.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 09:55 PM
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bill oxner
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My volunteer cucumbers last year did great.. I'm saving a few seeds to plant in June.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 10:11 PM
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 10:25 PM
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Love the tomatoes on the patio.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 11:03 PM
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How are y’alls tomatoes doing? I got 4 I’m giving a go via hydro P just to see if I can do it. 2 Cherokee Purples, a beefsteak, and a big beef. (The purples we grew from seed, the other 2 I bought starts) So far so good. Probably have 15 or 20 little tomatoes with lots of blooms. Dad’s growing his in soil and we are gonna have a blind taste test to see if there is a difference if I can keep mine going That's a cool setup - those plants look happy - you using some kinda special mix in the liquid?
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/23/21 11:22 PM
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How are y’alls tomatoes doing? I got 4 I’m giving a go via hydro P just to see if I can do it. 2 Cherokee Purples, a beefsteak, and a big beef. (The purples we grew from seed, the other 2 I bought starts) So far so good. Probably have 15 or 20 little tomatoes with lots of blooms. Dad’s growing his in soil and we are gonna have a blind taste test to see if there is a difference if I can keep mine going That's a cool setup - those plants look happy - you using some kinda special mix in the liquid? Thanks oldoak and Bill... they seem to be liking it. The tub holds 15 gal of water and I mix in 18 grams of Magnesium Sulfate (Epsom Salt), 36 grams of Calcium Nitrate, and 36 grams of Master Blend tomato & vegetable formula. I change the water about every 10 days. The plants are sitting in 100% perlite, so no soil at all. (All the nutrients they get come from the water) Got me a little pump in the tub that feeds each bucket from a line and then returns out the bottom of the buckets to the tub once it reaches a couple inches in the buckets. Been running the pump about an hour a day for the last 5 weeks. Wish I had some more room to get a real garden going but I'm kinda tapped out on space with my little yard. Looking at the past few pages on this thread and the ones pictured are amazing!
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/24/21 12:58 PM
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I once made a really small vegetable garden with three landscape timbers. I cut one in half and ended with a 4 by 8 bed.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/24/21 01:51 PM
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We had first batch of fried squash last night. Love them with a little sea salt and a drizzle of ranch. and seconds... they were going as fast as they were cooking. Time to do some more weeding. The lettuce and carrots are taking off. The onion, garlic, and broccoli are doing great too.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/24/21 03:50 PM
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Wrong forum. You have a truck garden, not a simple vegetable garden.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/24/21 03:54 PM
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My watermelons are sprouting Edit I planted some seeds in some small pots to get them started, i had also planted some in mounds in my garden, but Pumpkin quickly took them over... i was looking closer at some of the pumpkin plant this morning, and noticed a plant about 5" tall right in the middle of all the pumpkin was 1 watermelon plant growing i had not seen. so i cleared some of the pumpkins out from around it.... so looks like i'll have 4 Watermelon plants coming up.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/24/21 05:31 PM
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Wrong forum. You have a truck garden, not a simple vegetable garden.
One shot is all it should take.
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Re: THF Gardening Thread
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04/24/21 06:08 PM
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