Blossom Drop

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As many of you know we have had some rather cool weather lately.  Some of you may have noticed some of the flowers on your tamaters and peppers have fallen off  or have not been producing as many since the start of the cool weather.  Both low & high ambient tempertures can cause Blossom Drop resulting in lower yields.  However, temperature is not the only cause of  Blossom Drop  But, it is the one factor I am going to blog about today.  If you would like more info about "Blossom Drop" and it causes then click here & here.

Strawberry Update

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Just a quick update on the strawberries I planted a couple weeks back.  If you read the other post, you might remember that against the advice of the folks in the video I left the fruit on two of the four plants I planted.  I just wanted to see what the difference might be.  Well, one of those fruit has turned red!

And of the plants I planted a week or so before these plants and removed any fruit or flowers is starting to make flowers.

So, maybe there is some strawberry jam in the future!!!

For those of you that have not heard the song for awhile and for those youngsters who may never have heard this classic!

Thanks for stopping by.

Bubba

Quick Tip #3 - Labeling

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Today I planted some pepper seeds that had not germinated since late Oct. 2011(more on this later).  So, I decided instead of throwing them away I would plant several of them in small peat pots and see what happens when the temperature warms up.  As they will be in with other plants that will need watering it is not much extra effort.

As I was putting the seeds into the pots ... I thought I could remember which seeds I put into which pots ... WRONG!!!  Of the 9 pots I planted there where two that were moved around and I could not remember which was which ... so I had to guess.  No big deal as I will be very surprize if any come up but just in case they do I would be nice to know who is who.  So, make your labels BEFORE planting seeds and then you can stick it in right-a-way and not afterwards ... guessing!  A couple of years ago I did not see these plastic labels around but they seem to be everywhere now.

Use a waterproof marker of course!

Thanks for stopping by!

Bubba

Container Gardening

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I recently recieved a comment from a reader name Sandra.  She was asking if I had anymore information about container gardening other than what I have posted already.  More importantly she also share a website with such information. 

Planting Strawberries!

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I have just recently planted my first ever strawberry plants.  Mrs. Bubba & I were in the supermarket the other day and she spotted some strawberries but decided against them in the end as we have been disappointed in the past with the sweetness or ripeness of them .... not to mention the price of them!  So, I was passing through Satwa a couple of weeks back and checked out the plant shops to see what they have in the way of vegetable plants ... no I was not looking for pepper plants!  I came across some strawberry plants, i believe, grown by a large local farm produce company as it was in a box with their name on it.  So, I bought three of them.

Are you suffering from BER???

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Are you suffering from BER?  If so, you need to increase your intake of calcium.

Administrative Blog #1

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Welcome to my Dubai based container vegetable gardening blog.  Just a quick note - I have added a new archive to the blog.  It is called Archive by Topic. You can find it on the right side of the blog with the other listings.  When I set up the blog it started an archive by date which is fine I guess ( I still kept it ) but if someone wanted to read blogs I have written about a certain topic they would have to go through the whole blog to find it.  So, this new archive I hope will be more useful for those of you only interested in say - Tamaters or Peppers.

I meet up with Billy Bob last evening and he asked me why did I republished my old blogs?  Huh, what do you mean, I asked?  Apparently, when I was going through my old blogs adding labels to them so they would archive by topic I must have done saved them wrong and they were republished!  I apologize to past readers for this and welcome new readers to check them out - I reckon we can call this Ying & Yang!  It looks normal on by computer but perhaps it depends on the browser you use - I use Mirosoft Internet Explorer.

Thanks for stopping by.  Got more to blog about just trying to find the time - this two finger pecking on the keyboard is slowing me down! :-)

A big thanks goes out to Dale for researching the info on how to set up this archive.

Bubba

Pepper Plants

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Today I would like to share an email I recieved from Dan (with his permission) about his problem with his pepper plants.  I hope this may be of help to others with a similiar problem or someone can post a comment that knows what problem Dan is having and can share it with all of us.

Quick Tip #2 - Pepper Pinching

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Happy New Year and welcome to my Dubai based container vegetable gardening blog.  I came across something today I wanted to share now as some of you may be doing the same as me. 

If you are letting your pepper plants flower to soon then you could be stressing the plant of nutrients and growth.   As the plant is now concentrating on making peppers instead of establishing itself as a heathly plant then you could find smaller yields and fruit size.