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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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7. A lot of them simply started withering.
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 08:53 PM
Apr 2015

I wasn't sure why. And I thought I was watering enough, but what few cukes I got wound up bitter.

I've got garlic in that seems to have overwintered well, and some potatoes in raised beds, and a few onions so far. Had to put up new fencing all around the patio, as it turns out the new beagle mix is an escape artist and could get over the old, so I'm thinking of putting something decorative that climbs along the new fencing. Can't do edibles that close to the house, I'm certain they scraped paint with lead off at some point in the past, since it's an older house, so nothing edible gets planted in the ground anywhere close in to the house. Got a lot of sunflowers coming up already too. The new bed will get the tomato seeds I got from one of our fellow DUers who literally 'wrote the book' on tomatoes. Oh, and that reminds me, I've still got some ornamental black cotton to plant along the back fence to provide nesting material for birds.

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My understanding is they work but alfie Apr 2015 #1
For now, I'm fine with that. Raine1967 Apr 2015 #2
That's what those white suckers are? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #3
They are not cicadas. Raine1967 Apr 2015 #4
My cukes did pooorly last year as well. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #5
Were your plants dying from the ground on up? Raine1967 Apr 2015 #6
A lot of them simply started withering. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #7
We used milky spore a few years ago NEOhiodemocrat Apr 2015 #8
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