garden work
Yesterday I spent several hours at my plot. Aside from weed whacking and pruning the weeds in the community garden paths, I:
- chopped down the Red Gold potato plants and two more tomato plants because of blight
- dug all the fingerling potatoes volunteers from the path
- dug one plant of Red Gold's
- pulled fat green caterpillars off the cabbage
- watched the favas and zucchini grow for a while
- admired the lettuce
- harvested on garlic bulb to see if they're ready yet
- sprayed potato and tomato plants heavily with copper soap
posted by kathy at 7/13/2009 10:20:00 AM
5 Comments:
Hello,
What is copper soap? Is this effective on the blight?
Thanks in advance!
July 13, 2009 7:12 PM
I love vegetable garden and spent most of my time in my garden,
July 14, 2009 6:55 AM
Was the garlic bulb ready?
July 14, 2009 8:10 AM
Very happy to read that you watch your plants growing closely, too! I thought there might be something wrong with me…
August 01, 2009 12:24 PM
I have no idea what copper soap actually is. The brand I bought is called "Concern" and it was in a nice spray bottle at the hardware store. It works well against blight on my tomatoes it seems to me.
Th garlic bulb was fine, but I probably should have let it sit int eh sun to dry a week or so as the wrappers were thick.
Tina, I think its considered OK as long as you don't talk to them. (I generally pretend its Skippy I'm talking to.)
August 01, 2009 3:56 PM
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