Outdoor grow in Southeast Michigan 2024

[Sunin]

Standing and balancing on the landscape blocks while trying to catch a bug is a recipe for disaster! (fell backwards last year but my poor Auto cannabis plant cushioned my fall and lost it's main stem halfway up)

must be entertaining to look at

I love to come here and look at all them growing wonders

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

must be entertaining to look at

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I love to come here and look at all them growing wonders

I love watching tree growers too

 

[Oldchucky]

must be entertaining to look at

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I love to come here and look at all them growing wonders

Looks like a cross between Captain Spaulding, and a leprechaun!

 

[Sunin]

Looks like a cross between Captain Spaulding, and a leprechaun!

It's Pan Kleks- cult stuff in eastern Europe for kids long time ago. He was always walking with butterfly net

 

[cpurola]

I planted taller sunflowers in front of a row my zinnias that I had marked as short sunflowers. Those aren't getting eaten up as badly as the ones in the front of the bed. Makes me wonder what is off in the food chain to have such an abundance of those nasty things.

I'm hopeful you catch whatever it is. Never in my life did I think I would find joy in killing insects with my bare hands but I don't mind at all. Some will destroy your garden overnight. Please don't be balancing on blocks anymore. Injuries hurt much worse now and take forever to heal from. More than beauty was wasted in my youth. Definitely took my body and health for grated. Ha

I can my tomatoes and a lot out of my garden. Pepper jelly is a staple in these parts. Planted for 7 hours yesterday. Still have my flowers to get into the ground. I'm so late. That heat have screwed me.

This will be my first year for Black Krims. I'm excited. I have a handle full of new heirlooms I'm growing. I also have varieties that have crossed here and I just keep planting. I'll always have at least one cherokee purple. Incredible performers. Nothing beats a garden fresh tomato. Can't wait. I pickled green tomatoes last year. Maybe a new favorite.

Enjoy your weekend.

I tried fried green tomatoes for the first time last year and I LOVE them. Won't pick any to fry until after the red ones are done. I used to can, but when hubby started cooking and we were out of our canned tomatoes he did it himself. We have 12 jars of tomatoes on the shelf and he only used 1 during the winter. We'll be eating this year's fresh. LOL

 

[cpurola]

Honestly I really didn't WANT to grow trees, I just started them early so I could sex them before putting them in the garden. LOL
Now I've got another month of growth before they flower. I have a feeling I'll be trimming when I shouldn't, just to keep them a manageable size.
And the Pan Kleks pic is so cute! Learned something new today. Thanks!

 

[BearWater]

Looks like a cross between Captain Spaulding, and a leprechaun!

If Captain Spaulding was a first through third grade art teacher! would probably be a hella fun class!

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Looks like a cross between Captain Spaulding, and a leprechaun!

 

[Like2Grow]

Blood Milk and Sky has a few buds for sure. She's just under 6 ft. now with about 8 branches that look busy. 3 leaves in lots of places and long stems.

 

[cpurola]

Blood Milk and Sky has a few buds for sure. She's just under 6 ft. now with about 8 branches that look busy. 3 leaves in lots of places and long stems.

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Looks Great! Mine too! And some of the others like Romulan Warp Drive look like they're starting. Skystone has not come even close, and she's a monster! Pics later.

 

[cpurola]

So, I went to pick off all the Japanese Beetles on my plants and found a variety of tiny wormys.

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Looks Great! Mine too! And some of the others like Romulan Warp Drive look like they're starting. Skystone has not come even close, and she's a monster! Pics later.

You inspired me to grow a tree this year

Starry Eyed fem Freak Genitics

Put her in a 5 gallon nursery pot of coconut coir. I've got her in the greenhouse getting 15 hrs light a day but when I put her in the garden she's gonna get her stretch on.

She's hitting the top of the greenhouse now so I'll put her on the floor for a couple days and then out to flower

This is YOUR FAULT

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

So, I went to pick off all the Japanese Beetles on my plants and found a variety of tiny wormys.

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Inch worms/moth larvae. Bt spray

 

[Organic13]

My peas stopped performing when the heat came. Just pulled them today. Found a few caterpillars on them. Pulled them off and threw them in the bird bath. Wish I could feed them to my dragonflies. I call them my garden assassins. Find heads all over the place when they are on the prowl.

Can't wait to see you plants.

 

[Galgrows]

I tried fried green tomatoes for the first time last year and I LOVE them. Won't pick any to fry until after the red ones are done. I used to can, but when hubby started cooking and we were out of our canned tomatoes he did it himself. We have 12 jars of tomatoes on the shelf and he only used 1 during the winter. We'll be eating this year's fresh. LOL

Ohhh they are wonderful with some ranch dressing, like fried zucchini ymm

 

[Galgrows]

So, I went to pick off all the Japanese Beetles on my plants and found a variety of tiny wormys.

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Oh shit i've not seen any here........yet! I kinda expected to with my 2 bloomers stinking up my backyard but none yet. Ughh those are our borg.

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Oh shit i've not seen any here........yet! I kinda expected to with my 2 bloomers stinking up my backyard but none yet. Ughh those are our borg.

Marth larvae, I would assume every state must have 'em of some sort. Do you have moths in the summer fluttering about your door lights at night? Then you got larvae that will eat your outdoor plants. I'm not sharing with them any more.

No more. I've lost 90% of plants to these bastards. No more. This stuff dissipates quickly and washes off easily. I gotta use this stuff or I'm growing for fat worms that I'll step on. Kind of a waste of time so I'm cutting out the middle man completely
Use as directed.

 

[cpurola]

For those of us in the Eastern North Americas, Michigan State Extension Service talk about the European Corn Borer.
The Comeback of the European Corn Borer

 

[Galgrows]

Marth larvae, I would assume every state must have 'em of some sort. Do you have moths in the summer fluttering about your door lights at night?

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No more. I've lost 90% of plants to these bastards. No more. This stuff dissipates quickly and washes off easily. I gotta use this stuff or I'm growing for fat worms that I'll step on. Kind of a waste of time so I'm cutting out the middle man completely
Use as directed.

Yep i use this but not when there in flower, prior to i use it pre flower
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No more. I've lost 90% of plants to these bastards. No more. This stuff dissipates quickly and washes off easily. I gotta use this stuff or I'm growing for fat worms that I'll step on. Kind of a waste of time so I'm cutting out the middle man completely
Use as directed.

 

[BearWater]

So, I went to pick off all the Japanese Beetles on my plants and found a variety of tiny wormys.

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All those fuckers will ruin your crop. Are you going scorched earth?