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Janet, I hope everything goes well, and that they find the root of your problems!
Well folks I did it again. I found two more tomato plants this evening that I just HAD to have. Remember I said I went to three nurseries on Saturday looking for plants. Well, one of the things I was looking for was heirloom tomatoes - rather than hybrids. Of course, in the three nurseries that usually ALWAYS carry heirlooms, none of them had any, so I got all hybrids. Well today we went to Whole Foods, an organic grocery store, and wouldn't you know it, out front they had the exact heirloom tomato plants that I was looking for. And of course, I bought them! Sigh. I also got 2 jalapeno plants that I couldn't find on Saturday either. Oh and I also got 3 crookneck squash plants. I had bought squash seeds on Saturday, but since they had really good looking transplants, I just went ahead and got them. I'll save the seeds for next year.
Diana, we do have trouble with squash borers, so I am going to get some BT (bacillus theringensin - sp?). My organic gardening book says to spray the plants weekly with BT to control the borers. I hope it works. My biggest problem with the squash I planted in the spring was that the female blooms wouldn't open, so they didn't get polinated so very few of them grew into mature squashes. I'm hoping these are a different variety and I won't have that problem!
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 Gayle
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