Vegetable Gardening

[GLC1968]

Yeah, I thought about the nitrogen issue, too. We have high nitrogen levels in some of our soil due to the chicken coop - but that's mostly the 'row garden' area and most of the plants that have the problem are in the boxes (which is fairly controlled as these particular boxes are new this year). We do have one plant of this same variety in the row area, but it looks just like the rest of the diseased ones (no better or worse).

I'll try the eggshell spray on one plant - it probably can't hurt, right? If it works, I can do more. All of the plants have a new crop of tiny tomatoes, so hopefully if I treat them soon enough, these will develop well. I've been trying to pull off all the end rot ones right away so that the plant doesn't waste any energy on them. Not sure if that matters or not, but that's my brains' logic for you!

[OakLeaf]

Not sure if that matters or not, but that's my brains' logic for you!

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/not...otes/vg19.htm:

Removing affected fruits when symptoms are first observed may be worthwhile for subsequent development of other fruit on the plant. This is particularly recommended for tomatoes.

[spokewench]

Here is a whole sink full of rainbow chard that I harvested this morning with a couple of zucchinis.

Oh, boy can't wait for that Italian style soup tonight!

[spokewench]

And, here is the result. One bag of stems, two great huge stuffed bags of chard leaves.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Wow, a whole sink full!
So now tell us what you are going to do with the bags of leaves and stems...

The sun is finally out, I went for a nice 25 mile bike ride already...
Now Im going out to do some garden tending right now!

[spokewench]

Well, for starters, I will make a soup. Saute onions, carrots, some of the stalks, garlic; add a little bacon and cook a bit; add stock, cannellini beans, lots of chard leaves, a can of diced tomatoes or fresh if I have them, a small rind from my parmesan cheese, some small pasta at the end yummy soup!

[OakLeaf]

Beautiful chard!

Wow, you have cannellini already? Or are you talking about dried?

Rabbits, or somebody, have been into mine - I took the opportunity to look inside a chewed-up pod, and the bean kernels are still really tiny, smaller than the ones in a lot of my green beans even (planted at the same time).

But I pulled a carrot yesterday just to thin the row a little, and it came out 6" long! I wasn't expecting that. Yummy.