Monday, May 7, 2012
Insect damage
Insects are wreaking havoc on the pepper leaves in particular, but also to a lesser extent on the pumpkin. The BioNeem is obviously not working and I have not identified the culprit. Will try Fastac or another to try to save them.
Weeding
The beds needed weeding for a while - we have been getting a lot of rain in recent days. Weeding was actually interrupted by rain, but I managed to stake the tomato plants. before and after pics.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Cucumber vine
The cucumber vine had a problem in that it ended up inside the tyre wall - the leaves are stunted as a result. I retrained it out and down the hill so hopefully it will make a full recovery.
Bed growth
The tomatoes are doing very well - the peppers less so. Will tie the tomatoes to the stakes soon, also do some weeding.
Good tyre growth
The plants in the tyres are doing well. The cantaloupe is the largest and has several flowers. The vines of the cantaloupe and pumpkin were essentially going horizontally along the hill so I retrained them down the hill.
Autopot issues
The plants in the Autopot continue to do less well than those in the bed. We have had a lot of rain recently so that will be leaching nutrients from the pots. The cover of the reservoir also blew off so the solution got diluted. I topped the solution off with 5L at 3g/L of the 10-40-10 and added about 5g of a complete soluble fertiliser we have had for a long time - probably nutrex but don't know the formulation. Also added some of the solution directly to the pots.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Plant damage
We had some torrential rain yesterday - the plants survived the rain OK but when I went to check on them i found that something had attacked the peppers and to a lesser extent the tomatoes. One pepper plant had lost nearly 50% of its foliage. Saw a solitary largeish black ant and a few of the really tiny ones on the bed. Gave all the plants a spray with the BioNeem - hope it helps.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Leafminer
Hill cleanup
Plant growth
I was slightly surprised to note that the tomato plants in the bed are doing better - ie are larger - than the plants in the autopot system, but I have no real basis to put that into proper context.
The autopot plans are being fed 10-40-10 so should be developing good roots. Could it be that in the beds I am seeing good vegetative growth because of high N availability? Without instrumentation I'm basically flying blind.
The autopot plans are being fed 10-40-10 so should be developing good roots. Could it be that in the beds I am seeing good vegetative growth because of high N availability? Without instrumentation I'm basically flying blind.
First flower
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Chemical burn?
Autopot
In the ground
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Where have 3 years gone?
Hard to believe that it has been 3 years since my last post - a lot has happened and changed and a lot has stayed the same.
Currently plan to put down a couple beds in front of our unfinished house to do a kitchen garden. Initial plans are for scorpion, jalapenos, cucumber, mickylee, pumpkin and cantoloupe.
Currently plan to put down a couple beds in front of our unfinished house to do a kitchen garden. Initial plans are for scorpion, jalapenos, cucumber, mickylee, pumpkin and cantoloupe.
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