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My garden pics, enjoy!

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My simple little garden. This was started last year, but never fear. I'm sure it will grow and become even better by next. I have some plans. It just sucks that I live in a subdivision like I do (for many reasons). If it were up to me I would have 400 acres. All cherry tomatoes, not really though, with the cherry's that is. I would be picking 10 hours a day and still not keeping up. :shock:

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Beautiful garden! Is that first pic of a tomato hornworm?? That thing is huge! :shock:
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very neat trellising with the melons! you've given me a good idea :D
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Jerseygirl Yes that is a hornworm That little bastard totally cleaned out my last surviving jalapeno plant. It ate every leaf and was over 3/4 done with the last pepper before I saw it. I'm in my garden a lot too so they are fast. My boss just caught 5 in his garden that were bigger that my worm. It is now mulch. :evil: His are now fish bait.
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Oh man that stinks. :( Sorry to hear it ravaged your pepper plant. Yes I have heard they are extremely destructive in a very short amount of time. Fortunately, I have yet to see one in my garden but I don't have to worry about it, I have enough other critters and annoying pests lurking around.
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nes wrote:very neat trellising with the melons! you've given me a good idea :D
Yeah I hope it does okay. I actually trimmed a lot of fat off it. It was going every where even the other side of the fence. I very carefully pulled everything up on the trellis just last weekend, with pruning shears in hand. The empty space you see had potatoes, onion, lettuce, peppers and cilantro. They were all done so I wanted to get my overgrowing melons up and out of the way so I could till and amend the soil for a fall garden of various items.

Still on the fence about what I'm going to plant. Only reason being is I don't have enough room to grow everything I would like to. :evil:

Another thing that is just a tomato cage with stake to hold the weight temporarily used for a trellis if this works I will make something much better next year. I already had my cucumbers on the same thing. They were falling over so I put a stake in that as well. By the next day the cuc's weight had already snapped the stake in half. I need a stronger stake or less cuc's :lol:

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Nice garden man.. That freaking hornworm gives me the creeps. I hope I never find one of them in my garden, I might poo my pants LOL.

Take care man!
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splat42069 wrote:Nice garden man.. That freaking hornworm gives me the creeps. I hope I never find one of them in my garden, I might poo my pants LOL.

Take care man!
LOL. You and me both!
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Jerseygardengirl wrote:
splat42069 wrote:Nice garden man.. That freaking horn worm gives me the creeps. I hope I never find one of them in my garden, I might poo my pants LOL.

Take care man!
LOL. You and me both!
I can tell you right now you don't want one. Like I said that sucker decimated my plant in about a day. I just deleted a pic of it's poo. But there were about 20-30 little pea sized turds under my plant and in the same spot for the most part. I'm thinking these things just eat and poop, at the same time. In one end and out the other and keep going. :( :x :x
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Oh I'd be SO angry if I saw that. :x Last year I had beautiful broccoli growing and it was near 3' tall, and some unknown predator COMPLETELY stripped it of all of it's leaves, leaving just bare stems sitting there. ALL of them. And it happened within a day. I still wonder what did it. :x
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Jersey girl I would prolly guess it was Rabbits. They did the same to me in the matter of 2 days. Ate everything but the stalks.

gix I'v heard things like that from them things. The back end almost looks like another mouth so its probally goin in 1 end and straight out the other in a matter of a min.
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Lol the thought of that is so gross. On the rabbit thing, I live in an urban area and we don't really have them around here. We do however have groundhogs. Wonder if that little bugger was the culprit.


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