The Endzone Garden Thread

#782
#782
Orange Sunset said:
Cash crop gone have you standing in the welfare line if things don't get better
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lol

Gardening is just a hobby for us that unexpectedly (why? haven’t we learned?) suddenly takes off in August, burying us. It does take a while for things to get going, then whammy.

Fortunately, our church supports a school-based food bank nearby. Plus, the plumbers who came here yesterday and did their magic left with big bags of veggies.

Edit to add: we’re up in the mountains. We don’t have the typical southern growing season.
 
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#783
#783
VolNExile said:
lol

Gardening is just a hobby for us that unexpectedly (why? haven’t we learned?) suddenly takes off in August, burying us. It does take a while for things to get going, then whammy.

Fortunately, our church supports a school-based food bank nearby. Plus, the plumbers who came here yesterday and did their magic left with big bags of veggies.

Edit to add: we’re up in the mountains. We don’t have the typical southern growing season.
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I’d adapt to 7b. I need cooler summers.
 
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#784
#784
Tin Man said:
I’d adapt to 7b. I need cooler summers.
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We just got bumped from 6b to 7a, and sadly, I think we’ll be 7b in no time. But for now, it’s pretty great.

I miss the winters, but 7a isn’t that bad. Combined with this latitude (day length), we’re in a bit of a sweet spot. ☀️
 
#785
#785
VolNExile said:
We just got bumped from 6b to 7a, and sadly, I think we’ll be 7b in no time. But for now, it’s pretty great.

I miss the winters, but 7a isn’t that bad. Combined with this latitude (day length), we’re in a bit of a sweet spot. ☀️
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Are Asheville’s summer highs still in the mid-80s? How many days in the 90s?
 
#786
#786
Tin Man said:
Are Asheville’s summer highs still in the mid-80s? How many days in the 90s?
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Made me look.

Ok, here’s this July’s temps, including forecasts for the last week. You can click to look at other months:

Fletcher, NC Weather Calendar | Weather Underground

Here’s last July:

Fletcher, NC Weather Calendar | Weather Underground

Here’s some historical average, although I don’t know the overall time period for the average:

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All I can say is that things are changing fast. When we moved here in late 2012, most people didn’t need A/C for more than 7-10 days a year. Now, you do.

(I realize that it’s perfectly possible to survive without A/C. I just don’t want to.)

But it’s way, way, way better than Memphis or DC or Houston other not-fun places I’ve lived.
 
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#787
#787
VolNExile said:
Oh geeze, one more thing to brood over! 😡

Two houses ago, we grew tomatoes in pots on the deck. I would come home from work to find picked tomatoes sitting on the deck rail with one squirrel-sized bite in each.

Either eat the whole danged thing, or leave it alone! Not one bite, and then go sample another.

At least our idiot cat keeps squirrels away. She’s too dumb to actually catch them, but she does run them off.
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Aaaand, sure enough, just found two Black Krim and a German Johnson on the vines with chomps out of them. 🤬
 
#791
#791
Orange Sunset said:
Don't know but it looks like it. Pic was something I saw & posted for an option. These are not mine. Sorry for any confusion
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I’m ready to believe that it works. One interesting bit is that many plants, including tomatoes, “want” to grow upwards. At the same time, indeterminate tomatoes love to sprawl.

Does the tendency to grow upward, for tomatoes planted upside down, cancel out or reduce the tendency to sprawl? Plus gravity, which is huge with heavy plants.

This would be fun to experiment with.
 
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#793
"The most famous example of this technique is Disney’s “tomato tree,” so named because this plant’s special trellis allowed it to reach the shape and size of an actual tree – which is huge. In fact, in 2006 this plant set the record for the largest and most productive tomato plant in the world when it produced over 32,000 tomatoes in a 16-month period. All this without even a speck of fairy dust! (That we know of.)"

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#794
The mockingbird continues its attack upon my ripening tomatoes. I am befuddled. It’s not for lack of water - it’s been raining every day this July. It’s not for food - there are no bugs or grubs in my maters. It pecks holes into red tomatoes indiscriminately. Fawker. A dozen fruits ruined so far.
 
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#796
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#797
Tin Man said:
The mockingbird continues its attack upon my ripening tomatoes. I am befuddled. It’s not for lack of water - it’s been raining every day this July. It’s not for food - there are no bugs or grubs in my maters. It pecks holes into red tomatoes indiscriminately. Fawker. A dozen fruits ruined so far.
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Can you try to net them at this late point? Of course, then they’d be protected from you as well.
 
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