Ypsi City Desk: YCD asks--How's your garden growing?

Friday, August 1, 2008

YCD asks--How's your garden growing?

What's working? What's not? Got any tips as we move into the growing season? Cherry tomatoes are going great guns in Johnny's garden, as are cucumbers and herbs. Peppers are a touch slow this year...

7 comments:

glimmertwinfan said...: We've had fantastic brocoli, spinache and lettuce this year. Starting to see some size in our peppers.

One disappointment is our tomatoes thus far a small and we suspect something is not right. Leaves look infested and our yield will be much less this year. We have not seen any insects, just leaves with holes. We never apply any chemicals, but last year's was better. (Once we trapped the mouse that was having an upscale dining experience on our dime).

If you have any ideas on the tomatoes, let me know.; August 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Johnny Action Space Punk said...: I keep mine watered very well especially when it's hot and they love it. The more humidity around my tomatoes the better I find.

LOL. I have a curly Q cucumber all rolled up like a a hose; August 1, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Del said...: Try squirting the bottom of the leaves with a mixture of milk and water 50-50 usually works. You can also try spraying with soapy water.

It can keep the less persistent of the bugs away.; August 1, 2008 at 1:36 PM
glimmertwinfan said...: I'll try that. Someone said a mix of Murphy's oil soap and water. But it seemed strange, petroleum anything on my food, ouch!

Milk? I supposed the smell/taste of it souring does is?

Thanks for the advice.; August 1, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Del said...: Yeah I figure it is the souring smell also.

I use a biodegradable liquid dish soap since I have well water (don't want that petroleum getting into my drinking water) and I've used that successfully as well.

To me it seems like milk works better on bugs, but soap seems to work better on bunnies/deer.; August 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...: But what do you do with hungry woodchucks? A neighbor had a man live trap 5 of them out of her yard across the street, but it didn't get mine. This woodchuck rivals a muscular dog and climbs 4 foot fences.; August 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Johnny Action Space Punk said...: We have woodchucks here in the city (maybe you're there too) but we've never had woodchucks eat any of our garden plants. Skunks or raccoons either. I guess we're lucky there are other food outlets up and down the alleys; August 1, 2008 at 9:36 PM