RE: What did you grow that was new this year?



Dear Margaret and anyone else who might know answer to my melon 
question, thankyou so much for your advice about the peppers and the 
tomato seedlings....much appreciated and next year I will follow to the 
'T'.
Got any idea why pumpkins and melons grew to size of large melons them 
just went rotten on ground?  Treated them with care and followed all 
instructions on packet as all my gardening books are just now coming 
from Canada.
Ruth, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
>>
>>
>>Dear Fred, ...Okra grows almost wild here in Oklahoma....I watered 
from 
>>beneath the plant and all my bushes grew lovely pods....had one crop 
>>before hot weather in August and after the heat wave a whole new 
>>harvest....I do not know what snake beans are Fred....I grew all kinds 
>>of peppers ...and they fair bent the pepper bushes to the ground...in 
>>future I will stake pepper plants.
>>Ruth Shultz
>>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
>Ruth, those three-ring tomato cages that aren't fit for tomato plants 
are
>excellent for chile plants, and easier to use than staking.  In spring 
we
>can get the 3-ring cages for 50cents each, on sale.  I also use them on
>newly set out tomato seedlings for a final hardening off.  From the 
ground
>up: tomato seedling, three ring cage, double newspaper page affixed to 
top
>by clothespins so that seedling is shielded from overhead sun, getting 
sun
>in morning and late afternoon.  After a few days the green color of the
>seedling darkens, then I remove the three-ring cage to reserve it for 
use
>on chile plants, and leave it until we close down the garden.  Margaret
>
>


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