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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 1:56pm

@RajunCajun : It takes so much work!

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 3:43pm

I started a small garden myself. I feel like my plants are taking forever to get anywhere though. I have bell peppers, sweet potato, potato, sunflower, a lemon tree, broccoli and watermelon.

The bell peppers and regular potato have been chilling for months. The aloe I've had for years. Lemon I bought from Lowes a month ago. My biggest issue is the dang sunflowers...its like I plant them and they get attacked by any and everything

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 3:54pm

It does take a lot of work!
Good job, @EddyFree
My garden felt like little children this year I constantly had to tend to. The hot sun after so many cloudy days made the tomato plants wilt. But it's fun watching everything grow, esp. from seed.

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 4:11pm

My biggest issue is the dang sunflowers...its like I plant them and they get attacked by any and everything

@Darthwhyte :

I've got some sunflowers I started from seed also growing in a pot on the edge...I'm having some issues with SNAILS nibbling on the leaves of my veggies but they especially like the sunflower leaves for some reason....Problem is, the snails come out at night while I'm asleep....I just got some snail killing bait and I'm going to try sprinkling that around today....

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 4:18pm

@EddyFree : Good luck.

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 4:25pm

@EddyFree : we are growing tomatoes in planters also. our cherry tomatoes are already ripe and i eat them as soon as they are washed. i like popping them in my mouth .

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 17, '23 4:39pm

I'll tell a funny story about my failed attempt last year just to show you how my thumb is nowhere near "green"....BTW, it wasn't funny when it was happening but now I get a kick out of it...

So last year I tried growing only three veggies in containers...I had cherry tomatoes, the green onions, and bell peppers...All the plants started out well and looked promising...One day I noticed that a few of the leaves were missing from the tomato plant...I didn't think much about it, figured some insect had munched on them....A couple days later even more leaves were missing and even some from the bell pepper plant were gone...So I sprayed the leaves with my mixture of dish-washing liquid and water as suggested for pests on several gardening web sites...So about a week or so later I noticed that almost ALL the leaves on the tomato plant AND the bell pepper were gone!....This had been slowly happening for about two weeks...I started to think maybe they ended up getting a disease or something....Then, as I was closely inspecting them I saw this HUGE green worm laying along the main stalk of my bell pepper, pretty much camouflaged...I'm not sure exactly the species and I wish I would have taken a picture, but it looked similar to this one:

Anyhow, needless to say I had finally found the culprit...But it was too late...I could kick myself for not thoroughly inspecting the plants sooner....It wasn't long before both plants ended up dying with no leaves...

The story is funny to me now because this one large worm did all that damage and I was none the wiser at the time....

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 24, '23 10:42am

@EddyFree : I've been having issues with snails also. Try cayenne pepper thats supposed to irritate them without killing them. Or get this stuff called Castile soap

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 25, '23 11:22am

@EddyFree: I've always given vegetables to our neighbors, but this year our crop isn't as good. The only thing we noticed was there are NO BEES. We gave some stuff to our yard man who was very happy. Hubby asked his sister how her garden was doing. She said great, then asked him, "What do you expect when your county goes out and sprays up and down all the streets in your subdivision? It doesn't just kill unwanted bugs; it kills bees, too.

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 25, '23 7:59pm

I've been having issues with snails also. Try cayenne pepper thats supposed to irritate them without killing them.

@Darthwhyte :

I've been using the "old school" approach of "squash the snail".....I have a stick for this very purpose....So far it's working pretty well....They are almost all gone...

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 25, '23 8:08pm

The only thing we noticed was there are NO BEES.

@bbk :

That's why I've been hand-pollinating....Best to do it in the morning when all the flowers are "open"....Very easy to do....I just use a small fine-tipped paint brush, find the "male flowers" and brush their pollen to get it on the bristles, then find the female flowers and brush their "stigma" with the pollen I just collected....You don't have to do it every day, just once per "batch"....If it helps, you can make a "buzzing" sound while you do it....

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 26, '23 10:30pm

Really looks nice, too bad it got the secret sauce.

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 28, '23 10:11pm

@EddyFree : I'm been snatching them off my pots and throwing them across the yard.

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 30, '23 4:19pm

UPDATE:

How 'bout them cucumber?:

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~ 1 year, 4 mos ago May 30, '23 5:02pm

I'll tell a funny story about my failed attempt last year just to show you how my thumb is nowhere near "green"....BTW, it wasn't funny when it was happening but now I get a kick out of it... So last year I tried growing only three veggies in containers...I had cherry tomatoes, the green onions, and bell peppers...All the plants started out well and looked promising...One day I noticed that a few of the leaves were missing from the tomato plant...I didn't think much about it, figured some insect had munched on them....A couple days later even more leaves were missing and even some from the bell pepper plant were gone...So I sprayed the leaves with my mixture of dish-washing liquid and water as suggested for pests on several gardening web sites...So about a week or so later I noticed that almost ALL the leaves on the tomato plant AND the bell pepper were gone!....This had been slowly happening for about two weeks...I started to think maybe they ended up getting a disease or something....Then, as I was closely inspecting them I saw this HUGE green worm laying along the main stalk of my bell pepper, pretty much camouflaged...I'm not sure exactly the species and I wish I would have taken a picture, but it looked similar to this one: Anyhow, needless to say I had finally found the culprit...But it was too late...I could kick myself for not thoroughly inspecting the plants sooner....It wasn't long before both plants ended up dying with no leaves... The story is funny to me now because this one large worm did all that damage and I was none the wiser at the time....

@EddyFree : Ewww I don't like those worms

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