Cut me some slack. I just got into this whole thing. :p I, too, read that morning glories are best planted in Spring but they are scooting right along. Once they grow up some and I see which seeds germinated I can add the mulch which will greatly aid in water retention. My goal with them is to cover my balcony railings since they love full sun and are easy to maintain.

7/14/2009 4:56:44 PM

my pepper plants went from no peppers at all to a bajillion peppers seemingly overnight. and the largest plant is close to 5' tall!

my rose bushes are hanging in pretty well. i dead headed the old blossoms and now eagerly await the the next round of blooms to come in.

7/14/2009 9:04:17 PM

serious question - where can i get something to test my soil pH? i went to Home Depot and couldn't find anything, the guy gave me a wtf look when i asked him where to find it.

7/15/2009 10:12:32 PM

^http://www.agr.state.nc.us/agronomi/sthome.htm

7/16/2009 8:40:31 AM

Does anyone have any experience/knowledge pertaining to red worm composting? I could use some serious help.

7/16/2009 1:58:41 PM

god this is sad:

my GF got me a cactus that grows into a heart for our LTR...when I got home, I watered it like she said to, only once a month, let the water run through. I left it at my parents home while we were up at our cabin for 5 days. I come home, half the heart is deflated/rotten and the other has a crack in it. Do I tell her what happened or do I buy another one and keep the silence

7/16/2009 2:14:52 PM

present her with a new one as you tell the story about the old one.

7/16/2009 6:04:48 PM

Morning Glories are coming along nicely. Today was "add mulch" day.

7/29/2009 12:50:32 PM

omg finally. finally finally finally. reaches end to end now. i remember thinking it'd take around 7 days. and it took like a little over a month

7/31/2009 3:07:46 PM

i have all these little white insects covering the leaves of one of my pepper plants. they're really really small. do i need to get rid of them and how should i do it?

8/3/2009 9:31:01 AM

Whiteflies.

8/3/2009 10:35:58 AM

do they pose a problem? if so, what do you suggest as a solution?

8/3/2009 10:39:09 AM

The suck the juices out of the leaves. If there are enough of them, they can damage the plant.

Go to a garden center and get an insecticidal soap to spray on them to kill em. I beleive they have both organic and non-organic stuff you can use.





FWIW, I've got them on my tomatoes and I'm just letting them go. The plants seem to be doing alright enough.

8/3/2009 10:47:14 AM

so would like walmart have this kinda spray?

also, i tossed my tomato plants b/c they were turning brown and all the tomatoes had blossom end rot anyway. now i have two empty pots and a bunch of potting soil. any suggestions on something edible in can plant in there that'll live through the winter? i have rosemary already. some more herbs would be cool.

8/3/2009 11:26:29 AM

Target and Walmart have organic insecticidal soap spray that is safe to use on veggies.

8/3/2009 12:00:09 PM

cool. thanks.

8/3/2009 12:13:56 PM

so there are these wasp-like flying insects on the plant eating the whiteflies now

8/4/2009 4:57:11 PM

I :heart: my garden. Mmmmmm nothing like going outside and picking some fresh cherry tomatos and hot peppers and munching on them.

8/4/2009 8:38:54 PM

^fuck yes. i love eating shit off the vine

8/4/2009 8:51:18 PM

I've got somewhere around 100 peppers off of two jalepeno plants. I've just about run out of ideas of what to do with them, with like 40 left in the freezer and 40 still ou ton the plants.

8/14/2009 8:59:50 AM

pickle them

8/14/2009 9:05:46 AM

Flashes of Brilliance!

8/19/2009 6:09:36 PM

^^how about pepper jam? i used to make it with habaneros but jalapenos would work too.

8/20/2009 7:50:39 PM

YES! Absolutely that's what Imma do.

8/20/2009 8:07:32 PM

Done and done. Today for lunch I'm having ritz crackers, cream cheese, & pepper jelly. And a half a watermelon I picked Saturday.

8/24/2009 12:13:48 PM

I picked 162 jalepeno peppers today. Off of the same two plants.

10/3/2009 9:20:36 PM

My container garden dropped dead while I was in America. Who knew three weeks without water would kill off my plants

Better luck next year I suppose.

10/3/2009 9:40:58 PM