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Yesterday, I noticed that my squash had some white, powdery looking spots on it’s leaves. The plant itself looked okay other than the spots. I noticed the other day that while some of the fruit were okay, a couple of the fruits just coming on appeared to have started to rot where the flower typically falls off.  So, obviously, I had to do something, the first thing I did was find out what I had.  My twitter friends told me I likely had Powdery Mildew.  The first thing I did was to cut off the healthy fruit.  Though I would normally leave it to growRead More →

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I have closed on the house officially and have moved in and done some work.  Unfortunately I do not have internet access and now that I do have it I forgot my camera so I can’t share new pictures.  I was able to find out what some of the plants from my last post were and am going to write about those. All of the hostas are staying and I’m slowly working on removing the weeds growing in among them. Mom identified this and the other bush/tree like things as mulberry bushes, which were probably brought in by birds who eat the berries and thenRead More →

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You may have noticed the lack of posts recently, that is because I’ve been busy looking at houses to buy.  I found one that suits my needs and am preparing to move.  This means a new house, with new plants, and best of all, a garden all my own (that I don’t have to share with mom). Some of the plants that came with the house I’m excited about, others I do not know what they are, and yet others I am far less than enthused about.  So here is a plant overview of the new house, perhaps you can help identify some of theRead More →

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I had an idea for a new type of post for me to post every week or so.  I’m going to call them “troubleshooting” and it will be a problem – either that I’m having or something that someone else has submitted.  Then my readers or followers on Twitter can give suggestions or recommendations for solving the problem and I will update the post with the answers. My first post is actually a problem my mom is having.  She got this cute little basket with mums for her birthday a few weeks ago (the only picture I have of it healthy are the ones IRead More →

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Last year at the end of the year, I bought a pepper plant that had some blooms on clearance.  My thought was that I could put it inside and have some peppers over the winter.  Well, I never did replant the pepper plant into a bigger pot, so all I ended up with is a spindly pepper plant.  The top looks good and there is new growth coming in at the bottom, but there is a good six inch space that has no leaves, it is just stem. I did some reading and found that spindly pepper plants was a result of overcrowding – whichRead More →