Gardening thread

[redoubt]

X, looks like your garden is being good to you as well!

-Keely.

[pvanberk]

Anyone's tomatoes get late blight? All mine were devastated.

[mr x]

Mine were great as of yesterday, but I did hear some people get hit hard by blight. The ones in my pic above had just fallen off. Everything else is really healthy. Sorry to hear about yours....

[pvanberk]

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Anyone's tomatoes get late blight? All mine were devastated.

[mr x]

Wow, that's pretty devastating. Bummed...

[redoubt]

That sucks.

-Keely.

[spears104]

Its been a pretty good year for toms here

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[redoubt]

4-5 corn stalks knocked down this morning, and one corn torn open to be eaten. What sort of critter would do this? I'm thinking maybe a raccoon, because I didn't see any hoof prints (deer), but did see some digging... Any tips to keep critters out of corn?

-Keely.

[Keith]

4-5 corn stalks knocked down this morning, and one corn torn open to be eaten. What sort of critter would do this? I'm thinking maybe a raccoon, because I didn't see any hoof prints (deer), but did see some digging... Any tips to keep critters out of corn?

-Keely.

Shotgun

[Keggermeister]

Construct a scareclint.

[Jayme]

4-5 corn stalks knocked down this morning, and one corn torn open to be eaten. What sort of critter would do this? I'm thinking maybe a raccoon, because I didn't see any hoof prints (deer), but did see some digging... Any tips to keep critters out of corn?

-Keely.

Most likely a raccoon indeed - they love corn. My dad has good luck with an electric fence, but that's a bit of an expense obviously... I think you can also put a floppy chicken wire fence around which is not as good but may help, or another year, plant cucumbers all around the corn (never tried that but heard it works).

[redoubt]

4-5 corn stalks knocked down this morning, and one corn torn open to be eaten. What sort of critter would do this? I'm thinking maybe a raccoon, because I didn't see any hoof prints (deer), but did see some digging... Any tips to keep critters out of corn?

-Keely.

Most likely a raccoon indeed - they love corn. My dad has good luck with an electric fence, but that's a bit of an expense obviously... I think you can also put a floppy chicken wire fence around which is not as good but may help, or another year, plant cucumbers all around the corn (never tried that but heard it works).

Cucumber plan sounds more my speed. I'll try that next year - thanks!

-Keely.

[Juniper Hill]

I'm going to try using a cold frame this fall to grow some cold hardy veg. Kale, Mache, Tatsoy, beets. Should be interesting.

[akr71]

I'm going to try using a cold frame this fall to grow some cold hardy veg. Kale, Mache, Tatsoy, beets. Should be interesting.

My spinach, kale & chard were all going strong this spring, even after digging out the foot high snow/slush/ice drift on top of the cold frames mid march. You could probably get radishes going too.

[Juniper Hill]

I'm going to try using a cold frame this fall to grow some cold hardy veg. Kale, Mache, Tatsoy, beets. Should be interesting.

My spinach, kale & chard were all going strong this spring, even after digging out the foot high snow/slush/ice drift on top of the cold frames mid march. You could probably get radishes going too.

cool! how did you ventilate your cold frame?

[akr71]

I use old window panes as the lid, hinged to the box frame. When I need to vent (which is usually only late April, early May), I put a stake in the ground and rest the lid on top - if the ground is really soft, sometimes it takes 2.

Finding all that this spring was certainly a surprise - winter came on so fast and furious that I never really got to even think about putting them away for the winter. However, I was picking lettuce, spinach & chard into December.