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Misc Gardening Thread
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Going to check on my sweet potatoes tomorrow assuming it doesn't rain much more. On the 4th they were still a bit smaller than I like. They struggled this year to get going from bare root but eventually got it together.
NCSNOW
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Tomatoes coming in 30ish per day. Gonna net 250-300 easy. Planted spuds March 1st and netted about 120 first week June. Right at 100-105 days. Have a bed up close enough to brick on backside of house, mini heat island on those freeze nights we had, made a difference. Been a great year. Mid August will be geeting ready to sow turnips,cabbage.
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I had good luck last year. I laid a big strip of landscape fabric down and planted in it for weed control. It worked wonderfully.
Pumpkins are so hard. They are weak plants and get attacked by everything, most notiously vine borers. Powdery mildew, squash bugs, and other things get them as well. My plants always die before the pumpkins pollinate. You have to get good pesticide and give them a lot of attention, if you want to be successful.
Put growth regulator on my yard Saturday to slow down vertical growth and reduce mowing from every other day. Pretty decent result so far, it'll be interesting to see how frequently i have to mow going forward and how much horizontal growth this causes
Mildew is a big issue here. Don’t know if the seabreeze and resultant dew points make it worse but I’ve seen a lot on my gourds.
This is a short and interesting read not just for forestry but also our backyard trees. Needle blight has been a challenge with Longleaf pine restoration and now to see it in Loblolly is not ideal.
southernforests.org
The frightful four: the top forest health threats in the South today - Southern Group of State Foresters
Southern forests across the United States are encountering some significant challenges right now. These forests, known for their beauty, ecological
southernforests.org
Here I thought it was flash drought around here. This isn't good for lumber.This is a short and interesting read not just for forestry but also our backyard trees. Needle blight has been a challenge with Longleaf pine restoration and now to see it in Loblolly is not ideal.
The frightful four: the top forest health threats in the South today - Southern Group of State Foresters
Southern forests across the United States are encountering some significant challenges right now. These forests, known for their beauty, ecological
SnowMan
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It's good on the pede!
Crazy seeing yards get devoured by army worms in like 2 days
Trees showing some color up here already! Let’s go! 
I've never seen those around here so I can only guess the fire ant mounds everywhere keep them at bay. I'm convinced there's a super colony of them or something around here because no treatment seems to work for more than a week. What just about works best is a cup full of gasoline, a match and a shovel. For whatever reason that seems to run them off for the longest if you hit enough of the mounds. Haven't been able to use that method this summer for obvious reasons.
I use ortho fire ant killer powder and hit the mounds as soon as they pop up. After a year of treating, I have a mound or two pop up every now and then. The powder only kills the mounds, which is part of the whole colony underground, which you never can eradicate. But you can keep the population down by killing the mounds as soon as they pop up.
We have yards in the hood that never do anything about them, and they are loaded with mounds.