FantomBadger's First Attempt at Tobacco

[bbfarmky]

We’ve done this. Should help with aeration and drainage.

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Now just after we watered it looks like rain is coming. My luck has been terrible predicting the rain.

We used spade forks as well, smaller hand forks around the basins.

Now you’ve started something, never seem a broad fork before in my life. I need one.

From the looks of your soil, it seems to have a heavy clay content. If that is so, get a beefy broadfork. They are not all created equal. The Gulland brand (here in the U.S.) has a heavy duty model that has gussets bent and welded in to provide extra strength. Maybe other brands have that too, I don’t know. But I do know they make a world of difference.

 

[FantomBadger]

Learning more and quicker than I want to. Look what showed up today, about 12 of them and only on the bigger broadleafs.



Is it tuta absoluta? And how do I kill them? Mechanical as always, but the bios are not holding up on my new mostly untreated and poorly planned beds.

 

[deluxestogie]

BT (Bacillus thuringienis) will kill any caterpillar that tastes the leaf on which it is sprayed. The BT must be sprayed approximately once each week. More frequently if it is rinsed away by rain.

Bob