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FBG Gardening Thread - 2025 (1 Viewer)

heckmanm said:
Trying to decide on an alternative to the tomato cages for my tomato plants. They work well for bush cucumber and for peppers, but the tomato plants tend to overpower them.

Preference is a) cheap and b) easy to put up. Although maybe I should take the plunge and do something like this (perhaps scaled down since I only have a couple of plants)
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I'm doing a florida weave for mine. So far so good.
 
We used to tie wire mesh cages for tomatoes. They'd be 5' high and 18-24" in diameter. The plants will fill them out. Kept the fruit off of the ground and made it much easier to pick. It's a lot of work the first year, but they'll last years. You just need somewhere to store them in the offseason (we had a bunch of barns).

Like this
 
I still use the cages. They’re not perfect but if you keep after your plants and work the branches through the cages as they grow they work pretty good
 
Thanks all. I think my biggest problem is that I don't prune my plants well, and they tend to get out of control. May give the Florida weave a shot.
 
What does it mean if the leaves on my tomato plants are folding almost in half? Googling this is very vague. I have them in raised beds. We did have about 2-3 days of 95-98 degree weather, which I read could be the cause but they have remained this way. I've been watering religiously, watering anytime the soil is dry.
 
Everything i planted came up except for Cantaloupe. Tried multiple times and still nothing. I'm not sure why, maybe bad seeds since they don't even sprout.

We've had a decent amount of rain so while the garden is looking good, weeding looks to be on the agenda for the weekend.
 
Scoresman said:
What does it mean if the leaves on my tomato plants are folding almost in half? Googling this is very vague. I have them in raised beds. We did have about 2-3 days of 95-98 degree weather, which I read could be the cause but they have remained this way. I've been watering religiously, watering anytime the soil is dry.
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People have a tendency to over water. Me included. Try to keep the soil consistently moist but not soaked if that makes sense. My guess is the heat but it’s only a guess. My young ones always look like that when I come home on a really hot Sunny day but usually bounce back by morning
 
Cowboysfan8 said:
Scoresman said:
What does it mean if the leaves on my tomato plants are folding almost in half? Googling this is very vague. I have them in raised beds. We did have about 2-3 days of 95-98 degree weather, which I read could be the cause but they have remained this way. I've been watering religiously, watering anytime the soil is dry.
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People have a tendency to over water. Me included. Try to keep the soil consistently moist but not soaked if that makes sense. My guess is the heat but it’s only a guess. My young ones always look like that when I come home on a really hot Sunny day but usually bounce back by morning
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I've noticed this with heat and intense sun aswell. If they relax overnight in the dark and cool that would be my guess too.
 
Cowboysfan8 said:
Scoresman said:
What does it mean if the leaves on my tomato plants are folding almost in half? Googling this is very vague. I have them in raised beds. We did have about 2-3 days of 95-98 degree weather, which I read could be the cause but they have remained this way. I've been watering religiously, watering anytime the soil is dry.
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People have a tendency to over water. Me included. Try to keep the soil consistently moist but not soaked if that makes sense. My guess is the heat but it’s only a guess. My young ones always look like that when I come home on a really hot Sunny day but usually bounce back by morning
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Yeah this is what I've been doing in terms of watering. I have a timed sprinkler system for the bed that waters daily and by the time each day's watering time comes up, it's starting to get pretty dry. On the hot days, I had to manually water a second time each day.
 
Had to 86 my fig tree. It just wasn't producing at all. No biggie, it was worth a shot. Too hot and humid I think.

Tomatoes are impossible now with the constant 95°+ heat index, but my habenero plant is happy and loaded with peppers.

My pink guava tree is also loaded with 25+ fruits, not bad for the size of the tree (its in a 15 gallon pot).

Wondering when my bananas are gonna start turning yellow so I can cut the bunch down, and I now have about 10 banana trees in the cluster because I've been slacking in culling the pups...I need to stay on top of it, but man they multiply fast.

It's just too damn hot out to enjoy working in the yard so I'm doing the bare minimum and letting them do their thing.
 
The Longtime Lurker said:
Now what the hell to i do with all these radishes? :lmao:
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When I was a kid, we had a root cellar under the house and we'd hang up radishes/turnips/onions from the beams, but I have no recollection of how long the radishes lasted. It was somewhere cool and dark. I don't ever remember canning or freezing them, though that could be faulty memories on my part.
 
Uruk-Hai said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
Now what the hell to i do with all these radishes? :lmao:
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When I was a kid, we had a root cellar under the house and we'd hang up radishes/turnips/onions from the beams, but I have no recollection of how long the radishes lasted. It was somewhere cool and dark. I don't ever remember canning or freezing them, though that could be faulty memories on my part.
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Storing like onions and potatoes makes sense. I'll give some away and eat some immediately, but there's a lot more where those came from and they'll need storing. I won't lose sleep if i lose a few though.
 
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
 
The Longtime Lurker said:
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
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Oh man, that suuuuuuuuucks.
 
ChiefD said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
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Oh man, that suuuuuuuuucks.
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I'm ****ing pissed. 🎯🦌
 
The Longtime Lurker said:
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
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So sorry man, same thing happened to us last year. Bastards ate just the tips of everything. Was over 60 tomato plants+zucchini, cucs, you name it.
 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
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So sorry man, same thing happened to us last year. Bastards ate just the tips of everything. Was over 60 tomato plants+zucchini, cucs, you name it.
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Yup, brutal. They even ate the tops off the cayenne pepper plants. It's my fault, I didn't latch the gate being in a rush and it opened a crack and that's all the invite they needed. There's still plants, but they got most everything.
 
The Longtime Lurker said:
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
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Sorry bud that blows. They got my lettuce and corn last year. I don’t plant corn anymore and built a chicken wire cover for my lettuce this year. So far so good.
I was sitting in the shade after work the other day and watched a rabbit come out of the woods and head straight into my garden. I went in and got my wife’s p322 and shot next to him. The dirt flew and he jumped 2 feet straight up and went back in the woods. I haven’t seen him since
 
Cowboysfan8 said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
A ****ing deer got into my garden. My fault i left the gate slightly open being too busy and that's all it took. I feel like Ralphie after the Bumpus' destroyed Thanksgiving. Deer season will come with a dose of revenge this year......

Corn, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower all gone, maybe more. I'll replant this weekend and hope for the best.
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Sorry bud that blows. They got my lettuce and corn last year. I don’t plant corn anymore and built a chicken wire cover for my lettuce this year. So far so good.
I was sitting in the shade after work the other day and watched a rabbit come out of the woods and head straight into my garden. I went in and got my wife’s p322 and shot next to him. The dirt flew and he jumped 2 feet straight up and went back in the woods. I haven’t seen him since
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Appreciate it. Sucks forsure, but i might have time to replant this weekend. Maybe that works maybe it doesn't, but i do still have plants that didn't look to bad, so unless they get back in we should still have a harvest. Live and learn, 6ft fences aren't much good if you forget to latch the gate :wall:.

A little scare can definitely run that stuff off. I've used a box trap for rabbits in the past and just drove them a few miles away. Outside of the hunting seasons I'm a big softy. I might try a wind chime and get some hair from my wife's brush and see if that can keep the deer away.

My wife was nice enough to point out that i do all this work to keep the deer around and so i shouldn't get upset when they eat my garden. "Thanks dear, very helpful"
 
We use strips of caution tape hung on a wire perimeter waving in the wind. Just copying what the locals do. It's worked so far for deer and groundhogs. Doesn't work for rabbits. Rabbits have eaten the tops off of our bush beans. I don't want a permanent fence as I need to get the tractor in there.

Deer were killing a small apricot tree I planted. One strip of caution tape and they've left it alone and it's recovered.
 
Peggy said:
We use strips of caution tape hung on a wire perimeter waving in the wind. Just copying what the locals do. It's worked so far for deer and groundhogs. Doesn't work for rabbits. Rabbits have eaten the tops off of our bush beans. I don't want a permanent fence as I need to get the tractor in there.

Deer were killing a small apricot tree I planted. One strip of caution tape and they've left it alone and it's recovered.
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I do this too. My garden is super remote and they figured out when nobody is around they can do as they please. I even put sheet metal around a foot down all the way around to keep the woodchucks from digging under. Damn critters will find any flaw.

I have time today after a busy weekend to try and replant what was eaten. It's almost exactly a month after my initial planting. I'm hoping even if they end up stunted i can still get some kind of harvest from what was lost.

Edit. Planted. Take two
 
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Those A-hole deer topped all of my tomatoes taking about half the crop with them. Everything looks to be salvageable, but instead of eating some in a week or two, we'll be waiting a bit longer.

Installed the old conduit poles with deer netting. It's worked in years past for the deer, not so much for my DUMB@$$ dog who barrels right through it.

Like the caution tape idea, will add that later this week.
 
odin33 said:
Those A-hole deer topped all of my tomatoes taking about half the crop with them. Everything looks to be salvageable, but instead of eating some in a week or two, we'll be waiting a bit longer.

Installed the old conduit poles with deer netting. It's worked in years past for the deer, not so much for my DUMB@$$ dog who barrels right through it.

Like the caution tape idea, will add that later this week.
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🎯 🦌. I'm looking at it like I'm just fattening them up for deer season, but i did double my caution tape yesterday. My fear is once they get a taste they'll keep trying to come back. Real kick in the bean bag doing all that work and they undo it in 10 mins.
 
The Longtime Lurker said:
odin33 said:
Those A-hole deer topped all of my tomatoes taking about half the crop with them. Everything looks to be salvageable, but instead of eating some in a week or two, we'll be waiting a bit longer.

Installed the old conduit poles with deer netting. It's worked in years past for the deer, not so much for my DUMB@$$ dog who barrels right through it.

Like the caution tape idea, will add that later this week.
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🎯 🦌. I'm looking at it like I'm just fattening them up for deer season, but i did double my caution tape yesterday. My fear is once they get a taste they'll keep trying to come back. Real kick in the bean bag doing all that work and they undo it in 10 mins.
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You may need to move up there for the summer.
 
Fence has held after deer snuck in the gate and aside from a few nips which I'm assuming are from rabbits everything is looking pretty good.

The weather has been incredible for growing in this region so far this year and it's looking like a bumper raspberry and apple crop, this weekend we'll get out and start picking blueberries too. Have had a few cherry tomatoes and jalapeños so far and beets are looking close.

The "three sisters" planting technique i used for corn, peas, and squash is starting to come together and looks like it'll be successful. It made sense in theory and looks like it'll produce good results.
 
One of my tomato plants is producing fruit with brown almost burnt looking spots on the sides. It looks like blossom end rot but its not on the end, just on the sides. They are also turning red before getting full size. What could this be?
 
What's the solution for rabbits? Lead is an option, but anything that will keep them away before they get started? They're doing a little more than trimming.

Overall things look decent, but rabbits are putting a dent in things. Being that this isn't a place i can watch daily a greenhouse seems the solution for next year.
 
ChiefD said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
Got out this morning and picked 3/4 of a punch bowl of blueberries. We're probably a week early, but not bad. Should be a really good year when it gets into full swing.

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You have the same countertops as me!

I also have blueberry bushes........:oldunsure:.............hmmmmm..............are you at my house right now?
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I also have the same countertops and blueberry bushes!

I am not at your house otherwise we would already be drunk!
 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
ChiefD said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
Got out this morning and picked 3/4 of a punch bowl of blueberries. We're probably a week early, but not bad. Should be a really good year when it gets into full swing.

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You have the same countertops as me!

I also have blueberry bushes........:oldunsure:.............hmmmmm..............are you at my house right now?
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I also have the same countertops and blueberry bushes!

I am not at your house otherwise we would already be drunk!
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Amen to that.
 
ChiefD said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
Got out this morning and picked 3/4 of a punch bowl of blueberries. We're probably a week early, but not bad. Should be a really good year when it gets into full swing.

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You have the same countertops as me!

I also have blueberry bushes........:oldunsure:.............hmmmmm..............are you at my house right now?
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Frank crawling out of a couch, NAKED!

Frank hiding inside a couch trying to eavesdrop on his former coworkes calling him an *******, until it got too hot.
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Ps. How are the berries in your area? Little hit or miss up here.
 
The Longtime Lurker said:
ChiefD said:
The Longtime Lurker said:
Got out this morning and picked 3/4 of a punch bowl of blueberries. We're probably a week early, but not bad. Should be a really good year when it gets into full swing.

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You have the same countertops as me!

I also have blueberry bushes........:oldunsure:.............hmmmmm..............are you at my house right now?
Click to expand...
youtu.be

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Frank crawling out of a couch, NAKED!

Frank hiding inside a couch trying to eavesdrop on his former coworkes calling him an *******, until it got too hot.
youtu.be youtu.be

Ps. How are the berries in your area? Little hit or miss up here.
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I just planted mine this year. So maybe next year.
 
Been meaning to update. Just harvested the first Mangos of the season but my OG Hass avocado tree is the real star. These won't be ready to harvest until October-December but they are looking good. Probably a couple hundred on the tree. This is really super exciting for me, growing up as a kid everyone stuck toothpicks in avocado seeds and grew trees but the unobtainable dream was to actually produce fruit.

Full Tree

Closeup

Perspective
 
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