digitS'
Garden Master
It's fun sometimes, and perhaps a little dismaying, to see multiple ideas from knowledgeable gardeners on a single subject. Where it can be dismaying is when someone asks a question, like "what is eating my seedlings?!" There may be 4 or 5 suggestions, all of them well thought out and very possible, all of them quite different.
You take bugs, for instance. You take 'em, unless they are "beneficials," I don't want to have anything to do with them
! ... And, there is an example right there - if gardeners try too hard to rid their gardens of insect pests, they may rid their gardens of beneficial predators and pollinators.
Weather and Bugs. I had problems with squash bugs ... especially where a sprinkler failed on one end of the squash and pumpkin patch during record hot June weather. Stress those plants with something like that and - here came the bugs!! Flea beetles did some real damage in the tomatoes after a bad windstorm, 2014. Some years, you wouldn't even know that flea beetles can be a tomato pest. Beat up the young plants with wind and - here comes the flea beetles!
The desire for simplicity is just a fact about the way people think. Believing something, because of that psychology, doesn't invalidate what is believed. There are valid reasons for what is happening out there and valid answers to problems.
On another forum, there is a guy with a name like @CompostCrusader ! It could have been that getting compost into the soil completely turned around things for his garden. Big, big help in some circumstances ... The only answer? ... for everything?
Turn off the 50mph growing season winds? Well, maybe not ... Pay attention to the sprinklers that may become plugged? Yeah.
Steve
Now what in tarnation is 2016 gonna bring!?
You take bugs, for instance. You take 'em, unless they are "beneficials," I don't want to have anything to do with them
! ... And, there is an example right there - if gardeners try too hard to rid their gardens of insect pests, they may rid their gardens of beneficial predators and pollinators.Weather and Bugs. I had problems with squash bugs ... especially where a sprinkler failed on one end of the squash and pumpkin patch during record hot June weather. Stress those plants with something like that and - here came the bugs!! Flea beetles did some real damage in the tomatoes after a bad windstorm, 2014. Some years, you wouldn't even know that flea beetles can be a tomato pest. Beat up the young plants with wind and - here comes the flea beetles!
The desire for simplicity is just a fact about the way people think. Believing something, because of that psychology, doesn't invalidate what is believed. There are valid reasons for what is happening out there and valid answers to problems.
On another forum, there is a guy with a name like @CompostCrusader ! It could have been that getting compost into the soil completely turned around things for his garden. Big, big help in some circumstances ... The only answer? ... for everything?
Turn off the 50mph growing season winds? Well, maybe not ... Pay attention to the sprinklers that may become plugged? Yeah.
Steve
Now what in tarnation is 2016 gonna bring!?
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