I think your lucky! I planted several pepper plants and all I have left is one! LOL I believe a lil rabbit decided it liked them. I also have banana peppers and they are good and rabbit left them alone, it must have been something about the 'bell' hahaha
Hello everyone, I wanted to share that I have gathered about 30 pds of potatoes, prob a bushel of tomatoes, almost a bowl full of butter beans and a few banana peppers. I have some baby watermelons coming up and they are SO CUTE! My hand is bigger than they are haha. This is my first garden on...
I have heard about dish soap as a bug spray many times and I have used it myself. I usually use dawn as I have seen it's power over pet fleas. It does a great job at keeping most at bay and it is safe to use on plants and animals.
I live in North East Texas DigitS, I planted them toward the end of Feb. Most of my potatoes are blooming and are producing seed pods. About Mid April I planted the non cold weather plants. I have already gotten some sweet banana peppers and I planted 3 different types of tomatoes which are all...
Okay I have a question then, as I said I am a beginning gardener. When I read about how to grow potatoes I think I miss understood something. I thought (and have been told) that in order to grow potatoes you should pull the dirt up over the lower leaves of the plant to produce more potatoes. In...
It may be, the black part did not stink though the ground was not flooded by any means. The only thing in that would be the low oxygen, but how do you put oxygen into the ground?
I went and looked at that site ThistleBloom but it was not what was going on with mine as this black spot was dead center of the potato when I was cutting it up. I have seen this in store bought potatoes but I thought it was due to the plastic bags that they were in. These have never been in a...
Hello, I am very new here and to growing a garden. I have planted 3 different types of potatoes. I have Russet, Yukon Gold and red potatoes. I checked under one plant today and found that it had potatoes under it so I took only from that plant and brought the potatoes in. I had enough to do a...