My Garden Update...Horn-worms Caterpillars

Manduca Sexta

Beautiful creatures... but will wreck havoc on your tomatoes, tobacco or in my case sweet banana peppers plant.

When its hot they blend in with the healthy green leaves of your plant, you begin to notice damage to your plant, quickly, around dusk or early morning...when the heat of the sun is low, that is when they come to out to eat. And eat they will do, my 3 foot healthy sweet banana plant was down to a good 2 ft. 

My pepper plant is in a 5 gallon buck, so it stands alone on my patio. What I notice was pellet poop, so I assumed it was a rabbit. 

IT look just like rabbit poop.

Then last evening to my surprise half my plant was gone, so as I looked at the plant closely, I notice something moving...BOOM!!!

there they were, 2 lovely critters eating my plant...

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My Garden_Update Herbs, Cantaloupe and Sweet Banana Peppers

Moon & Stars Watermelon

I was out today, moving things around and getting rid of a few things that did not turn out so good.

Every time I am out there I see something new and exciting, today I can see the leaves on the Moon & Stars plant, showing its spots..:)

My cantaloupe is doing very well; I have also learned that not every bloom on my cantaloupe vine  is a cantaloupe, so far I only see 3...

Here is the biggest...

very early stages

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                                                              And My Sweet Banana Peppers

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And take a look at my tiny, Green Peppers...

IN LOVE,,

Thanks for stopping by...

check out my other updates..

Here and here..

My Garden Update

Yellow Squash

 This is Scrappy the neighborhood cat

Lemons from grocery store seeds

My Garden 2014_update

Schefflera

Another update...

Hoping everyone had a safe Fourth of July...

Wally world had a 50% OFF sale on plants, so I picked up a few up today.

As for my garden it is growing nicely...

Here are a few photos...

Okra-seedlings

This was my cantaloupe a few days after transplanting...

about the end of June..

This was my cantaloupe plant a week ago

my cantaloupe today...(july 5th 2014)

She loves her compost tea..

This is why its important to label things..;)

I have no idea what these are...

I think they are beans..

These are beans..:)

Very Soon this entire trellis will be full...

Happy Gardening...

My Other Gardening Blog:

HERE & HERE

My Garden...update 2014

I just took some pictures of my organic garden...I have been lacking in updating my blog garden...hence todays' update, so  I have growing, Beets, Cabbage, Lettuce, Green Peppers, Banana Peppers, Carrots, Corn (not looking so good), watermelon, and some unknown seeds I planted in the pink planter..

They are all heirloom seeds...

I also have African Marigolds to help with pest. 

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Growing MY Garden 2011

I am growing a garden...Beans, Okra, Gourds and Herbs...

I am far from being a gardener! But I think its great to be able to take a few seeds and in a few short weeks, you have a garden.

So in saying that since I am a beginner, and I know I will make some mistakes but that is ok.

We learn from our mistakes.

I am posting a few pictures of my beginning stages.

To start I placed a few seeds, in a moist paper towels. Then I placed them in the window. It took about 5 days before they germinated.

Then I put them in these recyclable pots that can go straight into a mini~green house or in the ground! Only 1.50 at Walmart and you get about 14.

I also have some Miracle grow sticks and placed them with the seeds, for that added nutriments. 

And I added water

I will keep you all posted on my progress. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Tomingo

UPDATE 2014 I no longer use Miracle Grow and will never use it again!