Kitty
07-05-2007, 09:03 PM
Sometimes a garden can get too much rain, especially around the time fruits and veggies are maturing. Watch out for tomatoes that crack open before fully ripening. You might want to pull the mulch from around your maters so that the excessive will evaporate off quicker. Leave the mulch off until we get 4-5 days of sunshine again.
Watch for Blossom End Rot, which usually begins to occur on tomatoes when they get too much rain following an extended dry spell. A small dark spot will appear on the bloom end of the tomato and grow increasingly larger to the point of total ruin. It wouldn't hurt to go ahead and grind up some egg shells and put around the base of your tomato plants. There is something about the calcium in egg shells that helps tomato plant ward off BER.
Damaging insects become particularly active after extended rainy periods, so heads up wif dat, too. Mold, mildew, and fungus (same things I guess) will be on the grow, as well.
Plants now need lots of sunshine and air circulation. I will have to call my Ariz bros. for the sunshine dance. :smt040
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Watch for Blossom End Rot, which usually begins to occur on tomatoes when they get too much rain following an extended dry spell. A small dark spot will appear on the bloom end of the tomato and grow increasingly larger to the point of total ruin. It wouldn't hurt to go ahead and grind up some egg shells and put around the base of your tomato plants. There is something about the calcium in egg shells that helps tomato plant ward off BER.
Damaging insects become particularly active after extended rainy periods, so heads up wif dat, too. Mold, mildew, and fungus (same things I guess) will be on the grow, as well.
Plants now need lots of sunshine and air circulation. I will have to call my Ariz bros. for the sunshine dance. :smt040
Hawkeye, you'd be perfect for this gig (http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070705/NEWS01/707050349/1002).
Yes indeed. You'd be perfect.