I forgot everytime I till every year petrified wood come eventually to the top

I find about 6 pieces a year

Can someone help me diagnose my sawtooth oak?

Planted last year, in Melissa TX. Receives morning shade, afternoon full sun. Has been watered and fertilized.

What is causing some of the leaves on the ends of branches to partially curl, brown, and die?

So, what happens if I just put in some onions? Ran across a bag of bulb kinda things at HEB for like .79 so I figured I would try it. Will they sprout, or whatever they do?

I am gonna say yes because of the cool weather we are having

If they have green tops cut them off and plant and water twice a week deeply for the first two weeks then just once a week

Your like me for 79 cents who cares but they should give you at least samll ones

What I picked vs what's left. Got 1.5" this afternoon so the tomatoes should really take off now.

contender beans have wore me out. i dont think i would have been much for pickin cotton

Will Spinosad take these leaf eaters out, or do I need something stronger?

Spinosad should work great. I apply once a week when I have caterpillar activity.

Thanks, will do, just wondering what it is? We've plucked many hornworms over the years, but don't remember seeing that one before....

My Seek app says Army Worm, which looks familiar to me based on previous years' identification. I don't deal with them much at our house in town, but do on occasion with homes we've worked on outside of town.

Probably a rogue fall armyworm.

So I am trying eggplant this year. The plant looks great. Big and lots of blooms. No fruit. Did I need to do this in pairs? The google doesn't suggest so. Everything else in the garden is doing fine and fruiting, so there are bugs. What gives?

I'm running a black ops on whatever bird is eating my tomatoes!

In my experience Birds dont eat tomototes That peck and peck and move on to the next one after they have made a small like hole

Now possum. Raccoons. And squirrels will eat your tomotoes

Yep

You know and I hate to say it but I have never had issues with mockingbird but every year I wonder if this will be he year

I dont know why because they sit on the fence all around the garden and even on top of my cages with cardinals

Lucky I guess

She also likes to get on my chimney and scream her bull**** down my flue. This will be a black flag mission.

I got a 22 with a suppresor that works well

Thanks for the offer but I'm in town. I'm going old school Crossman pellet gun.

Blossom end rot kicked my ass this year shortly followed by caterpillars. Caterpillars were my fault. I usually spray Spinoza every 7-10 days and never had an issue. Got lazy this year.
Can't explain the blossom end rot though. I did change my watering habits. I got tired of running drip irrigation and started hand watering. All raised beds. All I can think is the larger volume of water spaced out vs consistent watering with drip irrigation made the difference. I even treated with gypsum and other calcium and I'm still seeing it.

I have somewhat got pass the bottom end rot
This is not to say I did not throw away probably 3-400 tomototes but I am now down to about 10-15 a day showing it and hopefully tomorrow I am done with it

I will hopefully send pics next week of ripe tomotoes

Anyway. I am on a mission also to figure out what to eliminate My last three years have been terrible but also the last three years it has rain just back to back weeks to keep the soil wet

I am picking around 5-10 tomatoes every couple days from my few plants. This is my first year growing Cherokee Purples. You defiantly don't get the quantity of fruits that you do with the hybrids but they are so much cooler and taste better. Don't know that I will plant any hybrids in the future. I get tired of giving away tomatoes and cant eat them all.

I use cheap dollar store pantyhose to cover the tomatoes. Keeps birds off of them.

Blossom end rot used to be a problem for me, but the last couple years I put gypsum slurry in the hole before planting. Solved it

These two I don't think are birds.

Squirrels, raccoons, rats, or possums imo. I have similar struggles and have begun picking at the first hint of red. I'm going to try the pantyhose trick mentioned above to see if that helps.

You'll get the side-eye at the dollar store when you have 8 packages of pantyhose

If blossom end rot is a problem, you can sprinkle tums or other generic antacid pills around the base of the plant and they'll dissolve into the soil and fix it. That's if you don't want to mess with dissolving gypsum powder in water.

Do you know that once a tomotoe starts turning red as far as taste goes it does not matter if you pick early or let turn red on the vines The taste does not change

Now I still cant pull early but it is researched topic

I pull mine as soon as the color is more than halfway up the base. Once the critters find them they won't go away

Yes, I've read this, which is why I pull them now at the first sign of red. Pissed me off to no end a few years back to wake up with dozens of perfectly beautiful Cherokees, other than a single damned bite. I've pulled them at the first sign of red ever since.

User name AND emoji check out, nice.....

Siberian red garlic been in the ground since October.

Plan is to let it go through the summer.

Vwry nice. Where you located again