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gardenbug8's June 2008 Entries
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Jun 27, 2008 | 11:09 AM PST
Tag: grapes
I have a 2 year old concord seedless and a 3 year old flame grapes growing up a pergola. Any experienced grape growers out there? My question is how often do you water them and do they need fertilizer. My grapes seem to be growing good. I made the mistake though that I thought the flame was only two years old and the concord is three years old but after checking my records, it was the other way around. However, thinking that the flame was only two years old, I pruned all the clusters leaving only 6 but on the other hand, I left all the clusters on the concord and now there are about 2 dozen grape clusters growing and beginning to get ripe. I should have pruned the concords heavier than the flames. I water them once a week. Any sugestions or advice?
Jun 20, 2008 | 10:26 AM PST
Tags: Growing Tomatoes , tomatoes
First of all, I am now harvesting some beautiful tomatoes from my topsy turvy planter, however, how do you prevent the black rot at the bottom of the tomatoe? How often do you water and how often do you fertilize them? Although some of the tomatoes from the upside down planter are really nice and blemish free, some have bottom rot although the one I cut up did not go all the way inside, almost just the skin and then some. I had followed the instructions of one gallon of water everyday when the plant matures.
Jun 5, 2008 | 8:51 AM PST
Tags: grapes , corn
Tuesday night and Wednesday, we had some strong winds again. Today is nice and calm so I was able to do a lot of weeding since 5:36 a.m. and took pictures.
I had to put a bucket besides the restraints already in there to prevent the wind from toppling down the corn stalks yesterday but I might as well keep it there as I'll never know when another strong winds is coming.
First pictures are the Concord grapes. Some look good but others are so bruised by the strong winds as they touch the wires on the pergola. Last picture is Flame grapes which for some reason are far behind the Concords. I don't know why but the Flames were only showing a small swell on the stems when the Concords had lots of leaves already.
Jun 2, 2008 | 11:37 AM PST
Tag: upside down tomaoes
Well, it looks like there are pros and cons as far as using an upside down planter is concerned. The last picture was taken from the bottom growing plant where there is not enough sunlight penetrating the planter. It could also be that water on the leaves are not drying out before dark or I was overwatering it. I was just following the planter's instructions to water at least one gallon a day when the plants mature. Also, there was no instructions to plant on top which I did. Anyway, the results show the ugly tomatoes that grew at the bottom. The second picture shows the tomatoes growing on top of the planter showing good looking tomatoes. The first picture is also from the bottom plant which are out in the sun. I think next year that I will just plant on top of the planter.
