Mid Atlantic Gardens - Yours, Ours and Theirs forum: Share a Sample of Your Edibles ~ Veggie, Fruit & Herb Gardens in 2011 #6
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Question....Was down checking my new vegetables and found aphids on the backs of the leaves of some of the greens....lettuce, arugula... aphids? How can I get rid of them? And, no....I don't want the extra protein!!!!!  Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Dawn dish detergent in a spray bottle full of water. I sometimes use my hose-end fertilizer thingy with Dawn. That way they'll be nice and clean when you want to eat them! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| I know that organic farmers use green lace wings and plant a few different flowering plants among their lettuces and greens to keep the aphids away. |
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| Thanks, will try the Dawn. Can't bring in any of the beneficial insects...against the law. But I can bring in invasive nasty insects and only get a handslap!!!  Leap. The net will appear. |
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| That is so weird.`Carol, Are there any comparable native beneficials? |
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| Taking a break right now in the middle of harvesting sweet potatoes. So far, it seems that the ones in the containers were more productive than the ones in the ground - and so much easier to harvest. If that trend holds up by the time I get the rest out of the ground, I'll do them all in containers next year. I was thinking of overwintering some vine cuttings indoors and then planting those (or cuttings from them if they get long) in the spring so that I don't have to deal with making slips from my stored potatoes. Has anyone done that before? I've read it's possible, but not much in the way of details. |
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| Yeah, that's all they sell up here, just the rooted slips. I expect you do it much the same way you do with OSP - just stick 'em in water on a sunny window sill. I wonder if they responded to the crowded conditions of the pots. How long are you going to let the taters sit out? In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Beets are the only thing that I should be harvesting now. I'll do that tomorrow. |
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| Mine are still in too. The snow really didn't hurt them, mushed down a bit was all, but we had or first frost last night. The only thing that died in the snow were soft plants like inpatients. Ric The Amen of nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Holmes Thanks to Grandma and the joy flowers brought to her and in turn to me. |
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| Sheryl, what's OSP? I'm sure I've heard that before, but I can't place it. I have the vine cuttings in a jar of water in my sunroom, but they're pretty wilted. If they don't make it, I'll just have to start slips the normal way from stored roots. I left them outside all afternoon, now I'll bring them in to the sunroom to cure. I think a couple weeks is recommended, but I'll read up some more. I have them spread out on bread trays (like milk crates but flat) for airflow. And on final count, I got more than twice as many potatoes from the containers as I did in the ground, from the same number of slips. Next year, I think I'll do them all in bins. I have no idea what they responded so well to - I didn't water them very often, so I thought the containers would do poorly with how dry it was for most of the season. |
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| ornamental sweet potato Maybe the sweet potatos in bins loved the heat. THough you would have thought the ground was plenty hot this year. Out of Kale, Brussels sprouts and cabbage, the kale is getting eaten the most- by bugs!!!. Cabbage and garlic look good, I sprinkled some 10 10 10 around today and will stir that in, and mulch. I have radish seedlings - will have to see what those do at this time of year. I sowed some seeds of scallion,s in a large pot, but the seeds were 2 yrs old and nothing has come up yet. "If you bring joy and enthusiasm to everything you do, people will think you're crazy" W. Haelfeli, New Yorker cartoon |
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| Gosh, I didn't even check the Brussel Sprouts. Too darned busy with all of the other tasks to do. Will do that tomorrow morning. Holly told me to store the Ornamental Sweet Potato tubers in a paper bag. That's what I'm doing. Same here Ric, All of the soft fleshy plants turned to mush. The woody types are fine. What about the horseradish? When should it be ready? |
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| Bit, I am looking at my favorite plant propagation book (American Hort Society) and they say... "place the shoots in a plastic bag to reduce moisture loss. Prepare the cuttings immediately; if they wilt, they will not root." They also say to put them directly into a soil-less medium, not water. Sorry!  In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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So many different opinions on the same things.....like what to do with the asparagus plants.  |
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Horseradish will not heat up till after a killing frost, so I've heard and experienced. The other year too early in the fall I made some. It had the greatest taste just no heat. Supposedly when you add the vinegar it stops the reaction/oxidation/whatever, so the next batch I left sit twice as long after grinding, same result. This year I'm waiting till it looks dead!  RicThe Amen of nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Holmes Thanks to Grandma and the joy flowers brought to her and in turn to me. |
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I just love Wikipedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseradish They have such neat facts about the origins, cultivation, and cultural histories of so many plants. Ric The Amen of nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Holmes Thanks to Grandma and the joy flowers brought to her and in turn to me. |
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| Anyone want some purple Okinawan Sweet Potato? They are small, purple and very yummy... Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Thanks for the tips, Sheryl. If these vines die, I have plenty of tubers to try to get slips off of in the spring. They have roots on them already at all the leaf nodes, but I did leave them outside for a couple hours between cutting them and putting them in the water, which I knew wasn't a good idea. |
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Thanks Ric! That was some fun reading.  |
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| Carol, I read about your Okinawans. They really sound delish, I'm afraid though if I sat something that color on the table they'd get up and leave. Do they have a pretty vine? Could they be used dual purpose, ornamental and crop? That would make them an unusual addition to the garden. Ric The Amen of nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Holmes Thanks to Grandma and the joy flowers brought to her and in turn to me. |
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