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Post by tendingmygarden on Jan 4, 2018 15:11:12 GMT -5
gardendmpls desertwoman, lisaann, Mumsey,, I was being facetious with my comment about no-till, Gardendmpls. I think we need a bit of common sense with all this and your definition shows a lot of that. The definition you shared is what most people think of when they think tilling. Theresa
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Post by reuben on Jan 4, 2018 15:21:45 GMT -5
I need no till guidance.
As in, I don't need anyone's guidance on what is tilling, cultivating, hoeing, raking, weeding, transplanting (OMG I just dug a tiny hole to put a seedling in!)...
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Post by gardendmpls on Jan 4, 2018 16:37:53 GMT -5
You mean a microgerminal excavation, don't you.
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Post by binnylou on Mar 12, 2018 22:20:17 GMT -5
I still lust after a really good broadfork, Elliot Coleman style Just how much strength does it take to use a broadfork?
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Post by James on Mar 25, 2018 10:45:31 GMT -5
Lessee, what was the question that got this grand discussion going? "Should I just layer the various ingredients and then top with my winter mulch?" Anyone care to address the ops question?
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Post by desertwoman on Mar 25, 2018 11:48:26 GMT -5
James, kimmsr answered on the first page! but thanks for looking out for me!
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Post by davidjp on Mar 27, 2018 15:51:52 GMT -5
desertwomanHow are your beds looking now with overwintered compost on the surface. Hoping it's all looking good and has done what you wanted it to do
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Post by desertwoman on Mar 27, 2018 22:09:04 GMT -5
I haven't planted anything yet, so I haven't taken a close look davidjp,. Everything is still under a thick layer of leaves. It's been windy and cold the past several days and not at all pleasant to be outside, so I haven't been motivated to poke around. Hopefully this weekend, as it's suppose to warm up. I want to get some greens seeded.
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Post by mrsk on Apr 2, 2018 11:46:42 GMT -5
For the last several years I have not done the tilling... two years ago, I had the worst horned tomato worm out break of my gardening experience, last year, made the year before look like nothing. I was going out daily and pulling 15-20 worms off 9 tomato plants. Seriously reduced my harvest...
So I looked it up...tilling is the recommended cure. Going to run that tiller around this year.
Keep in mind, with gardening, like most things, one can go too far.
Mrs K
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Post by tom π on Apr 2, 2018 12:53:45 GMT -5
tilling is the recommended cure. If tilling helps, please let us know. tobacco hornworm = Manduca sexta tomato hornworm = Manduca quinquiemaculata However, "...either species can be found on tobacco or tomato leaves. Because of this, the plant on which the caterpillar is found does not indicate its species." In both cases the adult moth is large and can fly long distances, so I don't see how tilling could do much good. Adult moths visit white, night-blooming plants -- flowering ginger and gourds, for me. Last month I read Poe's "The Sphinx" about such sphinx moths. Poe took liberties with size.
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Post by mrsk on Apr 2, 2018 13:55:45 GMT -5
Well as I can safely say that my vegetable garden is the only garden in without exaggeration a 20 mile + radius. I live very remotely and my closest neighbors do not garden at all, in rural western SD we tend to have yards verses lawns or gardens. No night flowers. www.almanac.com/pest/tomato-hornwormsThis article claims that" "Till soil at the beginning and end of each gardening season to destroy overwintering larvae. Tillage has shown to cause up to 90% mortality. Keep wasps around; theyβre beneficial insects which feed on hornworms and act as a biological control. You may see hormworms with wasp larvae attached, which look like grains of rice (see picture, above)." NOTE: I never did see any worms with wasp larvae in the last two years I am going to try it and see.
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