Lost two tomato plants and one eggplant..



I killed five of them


dipel dusted

Those horned worms are just nasty.

HATE THEM SUMBEACHES!!!

your chickens will love them

catfish love them too

They got the foot. The guiennas usually get then before any real problems.

Keep watering them they may come back. I had the same thing happen to my peppers and 4 tomatoe plants last year I just kept watering them and they came back very nicely.

The wife keeps the seven dust handy but so far she hasn't seen any worms yet.We have 5 tomatoes that are turning orange so it won't be long now.

Fish Bait.

Seven Dust kills bees.

Thuricide works well on all worms.

what do yall do about weeds (grass) in the garden?

My garden just sprouted up with grass EVERYWHERE.

Will take me a whole day to pull all of em, any suggestions?

Chop hoe

10% vinegar from a pump sprayer should do it. It is non selective so don't get it on your plants.

Bingo!!! I mentioned it on this forum a couple of weeks ago, but it's easier than chopping cotton. This guy wrote it so much better than I;

http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2012/05/chopping-cotton.html

Chopping cotton



Years ago, I learned how to chop cotton. The first step is getting a hoe that works. Those sissy little hoes they have in most hardware stores are more for looks than utility. You have to get a substantial, well balanced and sharp hoe. Have you ever sharpened a hoe? I have many times. Next, you have to learn to tell the difference between the cotton plants and the weeds. The idea of chopping cotton is to remove the weeds, not the cotton. You might think this is easy, but do you know what a baby cotton plant looks like? Neither did I at first. Weeding without know which are the weeds and which are the cotton plants is a disaster. Then, despite all your equipment and all your newly acquired horticultural knowledge, you have to get busy and start hoeing.

Do you have any idea how long one row of cotton can be? Have you ever stood in the middle of cotton field that covered a quarter section? Perhaps mentioning that a quarter section is 1/2 mile on a side helps? Anyway, standing there, at the beginning of your quarter section, you can almost, I say almost, see the other end of the row. Oh, did I mention that they grow cotton in the Gila and Salt River valleys in the summer? Maybe that doesn't mean anything to you, but it means that the temperature at 6:00 am is 95 degrees. OK, get the picture. You have your really good hoe. You have learned the difference between cotton plants and weeds. You are up at 4:00 am to get to the cotton field. You are standing at the head of a row of cotton a half a mile long and there are hundreds of rows to chop and it is almost 100 degrees. Oh, I almost forgot, although you are there to "chop cotton" you are really there to remove the weeds, not chop the cotton. Get the picture?

Bill,I have chopped my share of cotton when I was a young'in.The pay was $7. a day and it was double digit hot when we started No shade trees around to get under but back then we didn't know what shade was.They made hoe's for work back then not anything like what is made today but you know that yourself since you used to work in cotton to.

Dang!! I have one store bought onion and two store bought potatoes left. Here are a couple of potatoes I grubbed, next to my 1015Y onions. It looks as if another rain is on the way, and I'll take all the rain I can get, but I'm done with watering potatoes and onions;



Can't wait until this sucker gets ripe. Maybe 10 more days;



We cooked by the seasons when I was growing up on a farm. I have a few great bell pepper recipes to fix in the next few days;



I don't have to wait for my cilantro. I use it in a lot of dishes. Maybe Hunan shrimp, and chicken tomorrow night.

Looks great Bill

Yall have a big time head start on me. Not seeing anything that nice yet

Looks good Bill.

Uncle sent me a pic of his first harvest today. Zuccs, tomatoes and onions.

Good lookin garden Bill.

I picked 4 tomatoes yesterday.

I for got!! Where does he live? He's ahead of me.

Victoria

I only have little bitty tomatoes starting, nothing near that size for a few weeks.

Looking good Bill!

My tomato plants are growing great and I have a few blossoms on them now. Hopefully they'll start growing some fruit here soon.

My peppers are growing very slowly and I'm starting to wonder if they'll do anything at all.

I need to get some bird net covering the two strawberry plants. Every time a berry gets started the dang mockingbirds are getting to them.

Jase, peppers do that. They grow slow but then will produce a good amount in the summer/early fall. Lowes has bird netting.