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So growing a square watermelon is the only reason I even planted them. This thread is going to be my journal of the process. So, the plants are back on track and producing fruits, if youve read my other thread youd see that I moved my potted watermelon plants to a 2 shelf wire rack unit, and...

So here I find myself 11 days after starting this thread, and I have an update... The melons have taken off. Within days of posting, I started noticing more and more female flowers on both the watermelon plants, and the cantaloup plant. Right now I have 5 watermelons and 8 cantelopes growing. I...

It IS a small world, I can see ucdmc from my back window, Im right behind it, under the helipad... btw- so you know how small these yards are around here... Im growing about 90% of my garden in containers on my driveway... :)

Steve, again I thank you for that explanation-for-dummies(me)! Im actually in 95817, so your example is perfect! 9b

Hi HPQ, was wondering if you had a picklingrecipe for hot peppers, for a beginning pickler... Im about to have more peppers than I can handle... I like spicy, i like dill pickles, and I love vinegar.... help me out???

So its a week later now, and heres a little update, cause I know everybody is on the edge of their seats over my pollination efforts... Got myself a pot of lavander and a pot of catmint to attract bees, there were bees all over both plants at the nursery... The next day, I started to see more...

Man readin this makes me worry about my cilantro... I love that stuff, i put it in everything i eat. I been growing some from seeds but it couldnt keep up with me, so I recently bought a 6-pack from the nursery and planted in a hanging 3gallon container. How long can I expect this new setup to...

Thats a GREAT idea! That just jogged loose a memory of my old neighbors a long time ago planting I wanna say lavander for that very reason... Man why cant I think of that myself.... Thankyou silkiechicken!

Oh, and since we are on the subject, can anybody tell me what zone downtown sac is in? When I look at the maps of the zone breakdowns, it seems to me that sac county is an island of one zone surrounded by another? Am I lookin at the wrong map? Please tell me... Thanks guys! :)

So I have noticed some bees, and lots of other flying insects including flies in my garden, not a lot of bees but I see at least one once a day... This has been troubling me, and caused me to research hand pollination, which I have been doing for my tomatos and peppers with visible results(all...

Hi all, I have pumpkin, cantelope, watermelon, and 3 kinds of zuchinnis growin like crazy right now, good long vines with tons of flowers... However, all the flowers seem to be male so far. I have found only one female flower bud on one of the watermelon plants. Brief background: plants were...

You always know what to say Steve! Maybe I fuss too mush over my plants... I cut a dead branch off the tomatoes, and the corn got staked similar to how you described. Plants are tougher than I give em credit for I think...

Yesterday it was really windy here in Sac, and I got some damage to my plants. A few stalks of corn blew over and feel like they snapped at the dirt-level... The tops of my tomato plants that stuck above the cage snapped too. The plants are still intact, but they are breaks not just leaning...

Steve, you just explained it perfectly to me, thankyou

K, so I read that the "ever-bearers" that I got are actually day-nuetrals, and should produce a crop early(like nowish) and another in the fall... But you make me worry, so I definately am getting another hanger and more plants, cant be too careful now... As far as once they stop producing, my...

Yup, the 4th one in five days... Each one tasted just a bit sweeter than the last I think ;) So my strawberry plants are all in hanging baskets, I have 8 different varieties in 4 baskets, 1 kind in each top part and 1 kind in holes drilled around the sides. Each basket has a june-bearer and an...

Thankyou, I hope so! Man, why did my neighbor have to put all this in my head... She says my plants will put too much energy into itself being a big plant, there by taking energy away from making vegetables. Can I just assume she is jealous of my beautiful garden and is talking smack? ;)...

Hello all, its been awhile since I posted on any of the "backyard" forums, as I have moved downtown and been remodeling the house... No more chickens yet, but that will soon change as Im allowed 3 in the city now. Anyways, got the garden in the ground during the last week of april and its doing...

So, the pile in my pic above is the wooden bin, thats the stuff from the middle of my original "wild" pile, stuff that was in the middle and most-broken-down when I started messin with it(hence this entire thread). That bin has now stopped heating up and remained cool after the last turn a day...

Lol!!! That was pretty funny ;)