The Vegtable Garden Thread (1 Viewer)
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NorCalDoug
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ya bastid...I'm gonna raid SurfPig's garden...
He probably won't miss any of it.
splitshot
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Chili I.D?
Employee gave this to me today in a 5 Gallon container. Only info I was given is the parent plant is over 6' tall and the heat is above the Tepin.
Employee gave this to me today in a 5 Gallon container. Only info I was given is the parent plant is over 6' tall and the heat is above the Tepin.
Looks like Cascabel
surfpig
The Anti-Tech
Late season. The rain cracked some of them but still good.
surfpig
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surfpig
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Some of these will end up in my pomegranate-Serrano jelly. Here's some of the "plain" jelly...
surfpig
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surfpig
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Is it spring yet?
My roommate has a couple of ankle biters who can't seem to learn to stay our of my gardens. I'm not really eager to put up fencing, does anyone know of any effective deterrents? Hot sauce maybe?
I've had an outbreak of dichondra in one of my gardens. I've let it grow because a. I doubt I could kill it without killing my plants and b. because I figured it would make an effective living mulch.
Thoughts? Shading the soil in the summer is a good thing but would the competition for water and nutrients offset the advantages?
Thoughts? Shading the soil in the summer is a good thing but would the competition for water and nutrients offset the advantages?
rusty_tlc
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As I recall dichondra is not a very robust plant, we had a hard time getting it to thrive as a lawn in Las Vegas. If you want it out hand weeding might be a good choice. Since it would shade the soil the net loss in water might be minimal. It is mostly leaf with minimal root structure and no flowers so it might compete with leafy vegetables for nutrients. You could probably top dress the beds with aged manure, which would either kill the dichondra or provide enough nitrogen to make up for what it uses.
dichondra is I believe a legume, and having it grow in your garden might be a benefit. As legumes have a symbiotic relationship with rhizobia bacteria, which create nodules (on the roots) that produce nitrogen. Also additional roots will help water penetration, adding to what Rusty said about shading the soil. I would just trim back the excessive growth and live with it. At the end of the garden season it will make a green manure, as legumes will decompose better than grasses.
surfpig
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According to the Wikipedia, it's related to morning glories. You could probably just hand pick it if you wanted to get rid of it. It's kind of funny, my dad tried for years to grow a nice lawn of that stuff in SoCal.
It is
It's tough to growAccording to the Wikipedia, it's related to morning glories. You could probably just hand pick it if you wanted to get rid of it. It's kind of funny, my dad tried for years to grow a nice lawn of that stuff in SoCal.
I was wrong, dichondra is not a legume. I confused it with something else from memory.
I will pay closer attention.
I will pay closer attention.
It appears that dichondra is one of those plants that only thrives where you don't want it to grow.
It's surprisingly hardy. It seems to thrive in warm weather as long as it has water and partial shade. It's used around here to fill in lawns under trees where turf tends to die out.
