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2020 Victory Gardens
Pat B:
The late blight that affects our tomatoes is from a soil born fungi called Phytophthora which is the same fungus that caused the potato blight is Ireland. Some ways to help prevent it is by adding lime to the soil and mulching under the plants to keep soil from splashing on the leaves when it rains or you water. Removing the lower leaves from the plant as it grows helps too.
Eric Krewson:
Yep I did all of those, lime and Epsom salts, planted through black plastic, put newspaper in the hole to only let the stem poke through and pruned the lower limbs.
YosemiteBen:
We did not have great luck with tomatoes. Told my wife she planted too many in one spot. We had two nice maters and the damn deer snuck in and ate them as well as some beet greens. They use our back stairs as much as we do.
Eric Krewson:
My neighbor has (had) a spectacular large garden, in spite of a deer fence the rascals have managed to probe its week spots and have been decimating his garden, especially his purple hull peas.
An electric fence has worked well for me so he is installing one today about 3 feet out from his deer fence.
bjrogg:
My wife has been working at Squash, Tomatoes, Peaches, Blackberry’s, Apples and green beans.
On the farming side. We clipped our clover cover crop. We let it grow up about a month after harvesting the winter wheat it was seeded into this spring. Then we cut it to help with weed control and promote rapid vegetative growth of the clover. We also spread our lime and potash for next years crop.
We leave the clippings and the clover grows up through them. In a another month or two we will till everything into the soil.
I love cover crops. So does my dirt and wildlife that call my farm home. The cover crops cut down soil erosion, trap nutrients, provide organic material and really promote a well textured soil profile.
Plus the many environmental benefits it provides.
Bjrogg
Here are some pictures of the clover growing back again. It will probably Greg about a knee high before we till it back into the ground.
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