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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Friday, June 18, 2004 - 3:45 am
Lk lol at the little pepper comment. They are just like kids, you get to watch them grow up right in front of your eyes. Than you eat them, hopefully noone does that with their kids.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, June 18, 2004 - 3:40 pm
Mine is a simple little bell pepper. He'll hang on the vine until she's a nice red, and then I'll pluck him down. It was an experiment in the Topsy-Turvey.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 7:34 pm
Almost all my peppers are dying! They seem to have some sort of fungus maybe? The leaves turned light, fell off and the top of the stem is black on most of them. A couple have turned black and became limp in the middle of the stem. I am so sad
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 4:13 pm
That's too bad Kristy, the only good news is that you can probable still go out and buy new ones and get them to produce yet this year. I'm not sure what could be wrong with them.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 4:28 am
I have tomatoes galore! One vine alone has about 10 on it and they are the regular sized tomatoes. The grape tomatoes are full also. Since I posted my picture these vines have grown another 2ft! I have baby squash as well. Whoopie! I am going to the local nursery today to get more pepper plants. I think the problem was in the planting. When planting them I busted up the clunk of dirt surrounding the roots, like I saw Martha doing on one of her gardening shows, and I think I should not have done that. From what I have read the plant is very fragile in the transplanting stage but extremely hardy once it roots into the new soil.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:25 am
That may have been the problem Kristy, unless the roots are really twisted up they are better left alone. I usally dig a hole about 4 times the size of the original dirt, throw in some manure, peat moss and regular dirt and plant away. Hopefully you'll have better luck on round 2 with the peppers. Sounds like your tomatoes are doing great. I am getting tomatoes, just a few though, the plants aren't growing much but at least they look healty. The ones in the hot house are doing better than the regular ones. I think all I need is some nice hot humid days and they will grow like crazy. Last time we had warm weather they grew almost every day.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 6:02 am
Here's sending you some of my hot humid days Jagger. I'm in NC and that's all we have in the summer. Half the time you can't stand to go outside and if you do you need a shower right away from sweating so much.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:32 am
Well, my plant funeral continues. My lavender, wedgewood geranium, tomato plants, oregano (4 plants), thyme, sage (2 plants), begonia, dill, and basil have all gone to the rest-in-peace file. My bell pepper was only an inch started turning red, and dropped off. ::sigh::
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:39 am
Have you figured out what's causing the stuff to die off on you Lk? I hope you gave them all funerals. Is it bugs, weather, rodants or an evil neighbor sabotaging your plants. Kristy I would love to have some of that heat and humidity. Normally by this time of year we've had some really nice hot humid days, but not this year, seems like the weather is running about 2 months behind schedule. We had frost warnings in the Northern part of the state last night.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:43 am
Awwww, Lkunkel -- I"m sorry to hear that. If it helps, my dill died too... too much sun I think... Sniff...
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:59 am

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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, June 25, 2004 - 1:08 pm
It's the heat. It's 109 right now. Few things are actually surviving. I'll start the herb seeds inside about August, and then plant them in September and move them into the greenhouse. I should be able to maintain them through winter and into spring.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Friday, June 25, 2004 - 1:36 pm
109!!!!! OMG... Thats just crazy! poor little pepper.....
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Shashakaye
Member
05-19-2003
| Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 3:29 pm
This is my first year planting potatoes. Does anyone know why they are splitting? I went out to dig some up and most of them have split all the way up the side. Maybe too much water?? Or not enough? What have I done wrong?
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 5:19 pm
Well, hells bells my first squash pucked on the vine!! I went out to check it today and it is mush. I just ain't worth a pee turkey s#$t with this gardening stuff. Last week I planted more peppers and they died. Just about to the point where I need to go find me a good ole lady or gentleman farmer, sit on the front porch with him/her and let them tell me how to grow food. My God if I hadda been born during the pioneer days my whole dang family woulda starved! ps my stupid cat went out there and sit his big fat A right down in the middle of my squash and now it is as flat as the homeade biscuits I try to make! Sorry I can't help you at all Shashakaye, I know NOTHING! The only thing doing great in my garden right now are the sunflowers and that's because I didn't plant them the birds did. By the way, when I was in my early 30's I planted a couple of tomato plants to see if I could grow any. My mother came over to visit and told me to sucker them and they would do better. When mom left I went outside and pinched all the blooms off of them. Those blooms looked like suckers to me!
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Friday, July 02, 2004 - 3:58 pm
Shash. I'm not sure why the potatoes would be splitting, are they completely covered with dirt? My guess would be that if they are covered with dirt and still spliting it is from lack of water, but that is a guess. Also check the leaves of the plants, make sure they are not filled with lady bugs, which will eat the laves and take away from the growth. Kristy LOL at the sucker comments on the tomatoes, I've been told to do that to my tomatoes also, but I refuse, I can't tell a sucker branch from a regular branch. My roommate did a great job of taking care of my plants, we had hot humid weather here when I was up at RG's place and everything grew like wild fire, the tomato plants grew like crazy, the beans shot up, peppers got more blossoms, and the flowers started blooming pretty good.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 10:39 am
I picked my first kolarobies (sp)when I left for vacation they weren't even the size of golf balls, when I got back they were almost baseball sized, they were some good eaten. One of my tomatoes is turning orange, anytime now it will be ready for picking.
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Colossus
Member
05-24-2004
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:22 pm
The planting area looks like shmit. But the the sunflowers are growing like crazy.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 4:30 pm
A few pictures of my garden My first almost ripe tomato green pepper that is almost ready to pick
some pictures of my tomato plants, which are getting too big for the hot house
some pictures of the different flowers
 More flowers and still more flowers
 
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Strawberry
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, July 08, 2004 - 7:11 pm
Wow that garden looks nice Jag. I can't wait for the tomatoes to ripen around here so I can go galavanting around town buying people's home grown tomatoes! 
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 12:29 pm
BEAUTIFUL flowers Jag! What are the red ones, they are amazing.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 8:11 am
Thanks Straw and Kristy, the red ones are also lilies. I was just kind of playing to see how close of a shot I could get. I need to get some better pictures of the overall garden, for some reason the color yellow has overtaken it, or should I say all the yellow flowers grew taller than the rest.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 4:38 pm
Your lilies are just gorgeous, Jagger!
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Saturday, July 31, 2004 - 8:40 pm
please help my pumpkins are dieing!!!! last week my pumpkins looked great all 30 some hills I have big macks,jack be littles,and jackolanterns, on last monday one of the jackolantern started turning yellow the leafs then the next day it was wilting so I watered it and the rest good. next day still yellow and wilted now. the rest looking great. a friend said it might be blite(spelling?) so I pulled it up. not wanting the rest to get it. when I pulled the root it broke and there were little white worms it the root. I'm gessing thats what made it go bad? I took that one out of my pumpkin pach.and the dirt around were the root was. the next few days all was find looking great lots of pumpkins on the vines then today there were two more turning yellow and wilting I'm guessing it the little white worm again!!! so far just the macks and jackolanterns are hit by this worm.I'v been growing pumpkins for years and have never seen this worm. WHAT IS THIS WORM AND CAN I GET SOMETHING TO STOP IT FROM KILLING ALL MY PUMPKINS PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!! NC ps I have lots of watermelens next to the pumpkins can they get this worm? I hope not!!! there is fild corn all around the plants too if that might help. then again the corn been there in past years? NC
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Saturday, July 31, 2004 - 8:42 pm
jagger your Garden looks GREAT NC
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