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i am pretty sure my squashs etc have powdery mildew. it has started as dusty white on the leaves on one plant and now has spread to some of the others. the original plant is now covered. i now there is some kind of baking powder solution i can use to spray on but know the specifics of it. can...

OKAY newbie question how you identify male and female flowers! i am also having major flower production but not alot of fruit setting. vines are happy and i have plenty of bees. i too have been picking cuc beetles daily for months with tweezers so I am in an out of the flowers too. thanks

interesting i know they use bananas to ripen tomatoes in shipping containers. so it could work on the vine i guess. keep us posted. i have the same problem and will join you in banana peel hanging if it seems to work. thanks!

that would be a potato seed pod i am not sure how to harvest etc. i have been wondering what to do with thee myself. can i grow from thi seed or should i just stick to eye starts? anyone, anyone?

with the banana peppers to freeze you will have to rst and remove skin for best result.

then what do we do with them? i have only ever planted eyes.

when should i harvest my potato seed pods? the flowers are almost all dead now should i take them now, or wait till i harvest potatoes when plants are dead? thanks as always j

hey i am here in forest ontario 1/2 an hour west of london

it seems that my brussel sprouts are being eaten by small green caterpillars are these coming from the small black eggs i am finding in the leaf crotches i also found some green soft eggs in one of my cabbages any help identifying any of these and organic methods of treatment would be greatly...

thanks guys yep i have been picking by hand too and it true they seem unable to get a real foot hold back to weeding ciao j

i seem to be geting the beginings of a cuc beetle infestation is there anything other than picking off by hand morning and night my free range chickens eem to be hanging around them scratching at the mulch i asume they are helping too what tdo there larvae look like on a cpl of my floweres...

after getting a horrible earwig infestation last year ( they reall like it wet) i discovered after much experimentation that just good old dish soap and water in a squirt bottle was all it took and it worked wonders to get a lot of them at once i would set "traps around" anything that they like...