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After a few years of trying I finally did it! Success with melons in Maine! Thank you all for your advice. The type is Sweet N Early and I grew it in two different spots: a self watering container and a large cow lick container. I planted 1 plant in each spot, fertilized with duck poop water...

Just brought these cuties home today. I hope they eat everything but my garden. I fear they will eat everything, especially my garden.

I continue to try and get melons up here in the north. I planted early canteloupe this year, and it's actually doing pretty well. I have two plants in two different locations. Each plant has between 6 and 8 small melons on it - we're talking between golf and baseball sized. One of the plants has...

Never seen these guys before, any idea what it is? They're on my topsy turvey tomatoes. Threw them in the chicken run, where they were ignored.

I have 5 large ducks and they have a large 50 gallon rubbermaid tub as their pool (in addition to a rubber bucket that gets changed daily for fresh drinking water). The tub gets cleaned when it's gross, usually 2 times a week, but sometimes only once. I want to use the water to fertilize my...

Boyfriend built me a self watering container today... I have the top on to heat the soil. Any ideas on what to plant in there? I mostly see tomatoes and peppers in them, but I'm wondering if I could get a good yield of watermelon, pumpkin, squash or cuke. How many plants would you plant in it...

Boyfriend built me two 4x4 raised beds last year. This year he put a hoop house on one of them. So far it's really doing great, temperature-wise. Today it was up to 129, on a 75-ish and sunny-ish day. I haven't planted anything in it yet, just superheating the soil. I'm thinking of doing my...

We did this contest last year on the board, and I'd like to try it again this year. Hopefully we can get some friendly competition going on. If there's enough interest and participation I'll even try to throw in some prizes. (2011 prize was prizewinner seeds from PEI Dill's Atlantic Giant...

I am about to scream, cry and then laugh about everything that's happened this year to my garden. In addition to what seems like 1000 other garden problems this year, I found THIS today on my pumpkins: It's a ton of blue colored bugs, and their babies and brown eggs. My chickens won't eat...

Never grown corn myself until this year (I try to do something new each year). I have some "Early and Often Hybrid" corn growing - package says 64 days and a height of 6 feet. My corn had a rough start thanks to really bad purchased soil that had almost no nitrogen in it. Now that I've corrected...

I routinely have bug and pest problems, but they're usually things I can identify like japanese beetles, slugs, deer, groundhogs... Meet the newest thing to show up at the buffet: this nasty little yellow and black striped bug. It's all over my curcurbits. I squashed 40+ of them today on just...

Hi TEGs... seems like a few of us are trying to grow big pumpkins this year. Someone had mentioned a friendly contest to see who could get the biggest pumpkin... so I'm starting a thread. Hopefully we can get some friendly competition going on. If there's enough interest and participation I'll...

Hi my name is SCG and I have a pumpkin fetish. I appear to have overdid it just a bit and bought seeds for 9 different types of pumpkins this year. Most of them haven't survived, however. The good news is though that one of my "Prizewinner Hybrid" seedlings has made it and it now has a...

These bugs are new to me, anyone know what they are? I've found them on tomato plants at both my boyfriends house and my house and I'd like to know more about them. They're pretty well camouflaged on the plant, I actually thought they were a tiny bit of bird poo until I saw it move.

I just wanted to go on record of stating that, although I do tend to murder plants with extreme ease, I did not have anything to do with these tomatoes, except picking out the plants at a big box store, which looked good prior to planting. These are at my boyfriends house in a topsy turvey. He...

I have a 4x4 raised bed in my front yard. I lost a few things in it to cutworms. I put some Sevin (carbaryl) down around the base of the plants (and managed to hit the plants too) and 3 wooden matches around the base of each plant. Now today I noticed my lone pumpkin and a tomato plant, which...

Ok. New raised bed this year, new dirt that was bagged. Planted 2 bell pepper plants in it and they were doing great until last week. Last week I noticed one of them was getting a little wilty and leaning to the side a bit. I touched it and it fell over, the stem had been cut. Weird, bad luck...

As part of the Bad Luck Brigade, I lost all my watermelon and cantaloupe transplants (among other transplants) to intemperate spring weather. I persevered and replanted. Bad luck there, too. Now I'm left with a single cantaloupe seedling that finally decided to start growing again (it finally...

I tried, I really did. I coddled these plants in my basement in an insulated box with lights and heated grow mats. I took them off the grow mats when they started to get bigger, and I attempted to harden them off by placing them outside for varying lengths of time for about a week (the bigger...

I've never grown potatoes before. I decided to try the "trash bag method" this year and they grew pretty good. I have Kennebec type and something else (not sure). I lost a few to being stupid and not realizing the bag got super hot in the sun and dried out and I'd have to water them daily...