Original Blog Entry: Container garden [this & That]

JAP69 — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 01:54:59 GMT

Went out today and finished the last zucchini like I did the others. While I was out there I decided to go ahead and transplant the yellow butter squash. I cut out one big boy tomato plant that was all done for the season. Took the tall cage I had for the big boy tomato and snipped it in half leaving the bottom portion of the cage attached to the container. I took the top portion of the chimney and fastened it to a five gallon bucket for the yellow butter squash plant. I also took short stakes and staked the squash plants into a vertical position.

I think I may lose the butternut squash plants as the leaves are dying off. I think the powder I used to put on them is causing the leaves to die. Says on the can not to use it during hot weather for squash and other plants. It contains 25% sulphur. I will use a mix my daughter made up for diseases. Just spray it on. some formula she found on the net. Will use that on the zucchini and yellow butter squash also.

Pretty much caught up again except for taking up the last two ground boxes behind the fence. I have two soya cukes to get and a couple big boy tomatoes to get yet before I take up the ground boxes.

I think I am waiting to long before picking the vine ripe tomatoes. I waited to fully ripe and found they had split open at the stem and went to he!!. I will pick my last three or four big boy tomatoes about 3/4 vine ripe to keep them from splitting.

The sucker branches on the yellow cherry tomato plants I let grow now have 5 flower clusters on the two plants.May get a second harvest from the two yellow cherry tomato plants after all.

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