What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Learned the banana's we buy at Jeremy's local wally we get fruit flies from.

 

[TJAnonymous]

So jealous you're getting tomatoes and cukes already, but definitely not jealous of having those fruit flies!!! So sorry you're having to deal with something so hard to eradicate.

I've been fighting fruit flies for weeks now... I have a stoneware compost jar for kitchen scraps that they seem to love. Along with my trash compactor and kitchen drain. I have those yellow sticky cards which work mediocre. Putting a little Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with dish soap in a small dish seems to work the best.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'm going to start a dozen or so eggs in the incubator on Monday so I can align the hatch with the chicks I want to pick up from the feed store on 4/2. Figured the chicks from the hatchery will be a couple of days old so hopefully this works out.

 

[Smokerbill]

My determinate red snapper plants are reaching the end of its life cycle. I've been having tomato, basil, cucumber, olive oil and sour dough bread for breakfast daily. This is the first time I grew and ate my cucumbers with tomatoes. I usually just pickle and use the American flavored ones in sandwiches and use the shoyu flavored ones as a side dish with rice and meat.

Since these tomatoes were grown under an insect net, I didn't have to spray them with an insecticide. The main issue I had with the insect net was I didn't think of supporting the branches before they collapsed and kinked from the weight of the tomatoes.

Instead of the wire cage, I think I will build a one-inch PVC frame around my DYI earth boxes and hang strings down under the netting to support the branches on my next grow out.

I would have to wrap each tomato with a nylon fruit bag without the insect net which is labor intensive. The fruit flies in my area would ruin all the tomatoes without it.
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You can garden year around in Hawaii, can't you? Very nice tomatoes!

 

[cj2024]

You can garden year around in Hawaii, can't you? Very nice tomatoes!

It's hard to grow things during peak summer months, everything dies back even the weeds before the heavy rains.

 

[cj2024]

I've been fighting fruit flies for weeks now... I have a stoneware compost jar for kitchen scraps that they seem to love. Along with my trash compactor and kitchen drain. I have those yellow sticky cards which work mediocre. Putting a little Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with dish soap in a small dish seems to work the best.

The fruit flies in my area are yellow and look like skinny flies. The same thing happens to my Kajari melon as in this video.

 

[TJAnonymous]

The fruit flies in my area are yellow and look like skinny flies. The same thing happens to my Kajari melon as in this video.

Oh, I almost forgot. I also spray them with bleach water in a spray bottle. That works really well when I'm knocking them out of the air...

 

[TJAnonymous]

I get frustrated by days like today... When it's cold, grey, and crappy outside but I REALLY want to work in the garden. Not much I can do except read gardening articles to get my "fix."

 

[Molpet]

I get frustrated by days like today... When it's cold, grey, and crappy outside but I REALLY want to work in the garden. Not much I can do except read gardening articles to get my "fix."

My ground will still be frozen for a couple weeks

 

[Nym]

My chives are like 15 years old.

Mine are easily that old as well, if not older.