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August 11, 2010 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Indiana
Posts: 76
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Garden Help Requested
Greetings -
First, thanks to Ami and so many others who have helped me make the transition to organic gardening. I have been using products like Garden Tone, Actinovate (and sometimes with Iron), and MyChor based on suggestions and I am pleased with their outcome. This year I am getting killed with blight, powdery mildew, etc - I am sure all the unusual humidity we have had is a major factor. I have been trying to see what else i should add to my regimine. I have been reading the posts for days about compost tea, molassas, and so much more. I am open to all of the advise of such wise folks on here. If you could give me what other products I need to add to the three listed above, with some background on it and sources, etc it would be helpful. There is just so much to read through and process my head will need a few truck loads of duct tape to keep the brains in place. C |
August 11, 2010 | #2 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 692
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Now if I could find a cure for blasted birds pecking all the ripe fruit, then I'd be laughing. |
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August 11, 2010 | #3 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Elizabethtown, Kentucky 6a
Posts: 754
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August 11, 2010 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Elizabethtown, Kentucky 6a
Posts: 754
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Hey Beeman, have you tried providing a bird feeder filled with Black Oil Sunflower Seeds & a nice birdbath in an area away from your garden; it helped divert the traffic & attention away from my garden. Lots of birds I'd never before noticed frequenting the feeder. Most amusing is the sizeable Woodpecker that precariously perches to grab a seed, flies to an adjacent tree to deposit the seed in a crevice & pop it open.
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August 12, 2010 | #5 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: California Central Valley
Posts: 2,543
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Recordings of hawk calls. Or learn to do them yourself. I also keep a saucer of water in the garden, assuming that some critters peck at tomatoes because they're thirsty. |
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August 12, 2010 | #6 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 692
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These bids are strangers! Starlings, hundreds of them, squawking and droppings all over the place. Put the nets out last night. |
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