Vegetable Gardening

[badger]

The Mildew Cure I posted the link to earlier, works really really well on powdery mildew on squash. It's what I bought it for originally. There's baking soda in it, also garlic and some other things. Squash grow so vigorously that I've never lost a plant that I've treated.

Hoping my plants can hang in there until I get back into town - they needed sprayed before we left on Thursday, but it was pouring down rain -

I was referring to that link, and for whatever reason I can't find it (and yeah, a bit too lazy...). Could I bother you to post it again?

thanks muchly!

[OakLeaf]

Right here.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/p...ubcategory=319

[GLC1968]

We've been harvesting zucchini, tomatoes, cukes, plums and apples, like crazy. I've also got some gorgeous watermelons developing and we are picking about a half-quart of strawberries every week still.

Oh, and get this! I just harvested a beautiful acorn squash from our compost heap! We decided to let the plant that grew out of the side of the compost pile keep going. It's now spreading across the lawn and I harvested the first squash off it last night. We will cook it up tonight and see if it's worth waiting for the remaining squash that is developing. Totally free food!

So far, our only disappointment this year has been the beans. The asparagus beans are icky, the two kinds of Kentucky beans didn't do well at all (one bush, one pole). Only the cross breed bean that a guy at work gave me is doing anything at all... Eh...maybe next year.

Lastly, our corn is unbelievable! Some of the varieties are about 8 ft tall! All of the stalks have ears developing nicely, too. Unfortunately, I didn't think about cross-pollination, so I planted 4 types too close together. I may have a ton of dent corn in the making!

[badger]

Right here.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/p...ubcategory=319

"cannot be shipped to Canada"...

I'll book mark it for next year. My female zucchini buds are turning yellow after about a week (it's green zucchini), and two of the smaller plants are basically dead now, so I'll just have to keep this in mind for next year. Live and learn!

[OakLeaf]

Aw, bummer. Hope you get it under control.

We had our first sweet corn tonight. Mmmmmmmm. I've read that you have a window of about 90 minutes between picking sweet corn and when you have to cook it, before the sugars start turning into starch. All I know is, it sure was sweet.