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Gardening Thread--if you can offer help, tips, or experience 1 Attachment(s) I'm super new to gardening. And I've been reading a lot of gardening forums, but frankly I like and am used to the YT/vbulletin layout. My tomato plants are on the comeback after a gang of tobacco hornworms (caterpillars) decimated them. (I got even, just in case you were wondering.) Now I've found this little black and red bug on the tomatoes. Just wondering if anyone knows what this is and is it bad for my plants. Attachment 400198 My herbs are doing well after I learned how to properly prune them. I never knew that cutting them helps to redirect their energy. Also I used honey as a rooting hormone for the clippings and now I have all these little basil plants going. :) |
2 Attachment(s) Here is my bowling alley of a backyard. I spent the morning putting up the herb tree. Attachment 400199 Attachment 400200 On the ground in the plastic container are my clippings. I put them in those brown seed starter pot thingys and wet the soil. Then I put the cover on, which isn't air tight, but close enough for a week or so. I checked every few days for new growth, and pulled out the ones that didn't take. Only 2 of the mint clippings didn't make it. :) |
The herb tree is so cool. How often do you have to water those? I want to have an herb garden too, but hate the thought of slugs and snails and things on it. Maybe hanging baskets would work for me, but I don't want to create a lot of work watering and such. If I could grow one vegetable, it would be zucchini. Love it. I have a huge avocado tree that produces about 5 months in the fall, and papayas that are year around. That's about it for edibles. All the rest are ornamental. |
I use large pots and a system called "square foot gardening". Because the plants are close together there is less of a chance of something taking them over. So far this summer my garden is very happy,yelding grape tomatoes,larger tomatoes, basil (man do I have basil),sage,rosemary,peppers,mint,bib lettuce (until it got to hot ,going to plant squash in its place),blackberrys ( this is the only thing that the birds have bothered),oh! and some flowers. This is my first real garden and I have been very pleased. You can Youtube square foot gardening and there is a ton of information. |
We are avid gardeners. We are more into flowers and trees than edibles, but we do have raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. From what I can find, that bug is a milkweed bug. Looks like they eat milkweed, so you shouldn't have any problems with them. Milkweed Bug Information |
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How fun! I have a small garden at home, the trouble is sun. In the summer it's too hot and the garden gets too much sun...in the fall/winter/spring it does not get enough sun. I changed it to flowers and shrubs and I am going to do a raised bed in a different area. Wish me luck. I had the garden club at my school for the past few years..we have 6 raised beds....5 x12. The garden does really well...we had so much we donated to the local food bank ( fed 300 families). |
I don't know what that bug is. This year I have planted very little because in years past I have have had to give away so much that I was constantly delivering things. This year I only have tomatoes, zucchini, cilantro and basil. I'm watching my first tomato turn red as we talk. The cilantro is just about done because it is getting very hot but the basil is taking over. I grow basil outside in the summer but as it begins to get cool I will clip some and put it in water in the house. It roots quickly in water, then I plant it in a pot and have fresh basil all winter. I love your herb tree and your yard is charming. |
I have the opposite prob. back yard to shady, I put in raised garden beds, 8 of them, filled them with shade loving flowers. The first season I had it I saw flowers disappearing INTO the ground, like the devil reached up and pulled them down. I researched thinking it was moles, came to find out it is VOLES. Just a heads up for anyone thinking about raised garden beds. My prob is, I have woods behind me, to trace where their opening tunnel is, is impossible. So I can't plant seed pack flowers or flowers in 4 or 6 inch pots, I have to buy more of a bush type flower, but I have lots of planters to use. |
That herb tree is so cool, love it! |
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So cool about your school's garden club. I hope to eventually grow enough veggies so we don't have to buy them anymore. Fruits not so much though, we don't have room for fruit trees. Maybe a dwarf lime tree I've had my eye on.;) |
Has anyone had success in growing dill? I can get them to sprout from seed but they look so wimpy and don't seem to get any larger than a few inches tall. |
ARGH! Caterpillars again! One of my Desert Museum trees hadn't been growing. All of a sudden it started growing...FAST! Then today all the leaves were gone again and I saw those dang worms all over it! I stopped counting after 20. Caterpillars: 3 Me: 23+ You nasty wormies show up again in my backyard, I will KILL you and feed you to the birds. :twisted: |
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