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Gardening

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Aerows

(39,961 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 04:26 AM Aug 2015

I need some help with gardening. [View all]

It's heading into fall, so I figure now is when I start thinking about strategies for the spring.

I can't grow anything. Sure, I grew a handful of mediocre sized tomatoes, NRaleighLiberals cherry tomatoes and some ornamental pepper plants he sent produced like gangbusters, but anything else FAILS.

I planted some onions, they got eaten up by some sort of weevil looking things. My eggplant produced a grand total of one medium sized one, and was covered by these red aphid looking things - and I mean a SWARM of them.

These evil bugs:





My strawberry plant gave up the ghost without doing anything.

I will say that my rosemary is hearty and is thriving, though.

I even tried crook-neck squash, but it didn't even make it out of the gate.

What am I doing wrong? I live on the coast of Mississippi, we get plenty of sun and rain.

Do I just have a black thumb?

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I'll be interested to hear what other gardeners say NJCher Aug 2015 #1
I like using horticultural oil as a pesticide Major Nikon Aug 2015 #2
No one has a black thumb! Curmudgeoness Aug 2015 #3
I would start off getting a soil test alfie Aug 2015 #4
Hot as hell Aerows Aug 2015 #5
Try this. NCarolinawoman Aug 2015 #6
So a few things about gardening (from a 35 year gardener) NRaleighLiberal Aug 2015 #7
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