smallwanderings 2022 grow blog

[smallwanderings]

Just Jasmine tobacco this year as a fragrant ornamental in my vegetable garden. Still I expect to learn from growing it. The seeds arrived in the mail today.
I use very little tobacco, and still have most of the Canik from last year.

 

[Oldfella]

Just Jasmine tobacco this year as a fragrant ornamental in my vegetable garden. Still I expect to learn from growing it. The seeds arrived in the mail today.
I use very little tobacco, and still have most of the Canik from last year.

I grew Jasmine in my tobacco patch last season and the Bugs loved it. This year I planted it and Only The Lonley by the house. The Bugs have attacked the Jasmine and left Only The Lonley alone. Maybe I should have planted some Jasmine in my tobacco patch. See my blog for pictures. (Might still do that ).
Oldfella

 

[peterd]

All of my ornamental tobaccos have gotten a soaking in neonictinoids to give them more resistance to the bugs, I want to keep them for as long as possible in the front flower garden and not have to remove them if they get full of unsightly holes. If that doesn't work, I have three year supply of Spinosad I will also apply.

 

[smallwanderings]

 

[smallwanderings]

The small Jasmine were transplanted when they had only two leaves; the larger ones when they had four.

On the right is Hungarian Blue Poppy for seeds on homemade bread. At the top are sweet potato slips from some of last years potatoes.

 

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[Oldfella]

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Bottom picture, plants look to be a little bit too deep in the pots. I'd suggest that you get a bit more soil in. The leaves that are touching the edges of the pot will probably die off. The top picture, these plants look good just need a little drink. Otherwise they are looking good. Oldfella

 

[smallwanderings]

Three of the six Jasmine plants. I have the six plants spread around the garden for the scent of the flowers and to draw aphids away from other plants.

 

[smallwanderings]

In order from best looking to not so good looking - different growing conditions in different parts of the garden. All but the last have a hay mulch; there are leek plants too small to mulch yet growing near the last one. Hay mulch as in Ruth Stout's book, The No Work Garden.

 

[smallwanderings]

Starting to bloom.

 

[deluxestogie]

The plants look good. Is that a bridge I see in the upper right corner?

Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

The plants look good. Is that a bridge I see in the upper right corner?

Bob

That is just some sticks on top of hay bales.

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

I think he might be talking firther back and to the right. It may be some fence or a trellis of some sort?

 

[smallwanderings]

I think he might be talking firther back and to the right. It may be some fence or a trellis of some sort?

Oh, yes thanks for pointing that out to me. It's the top of the 10 foot fence that encloses the garden; and since the garden is in Baltimore, the fence has barbed wire at the top.

 

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[GrowleyMonster]

I have been wondering about that. So when people say "Jasmine", they are talking about Jasmine Tobacco? Is there another plant called Jasmine?

 

[deluxestogie]

Jasmine (the flowers) are a genus of Oleaceae with hundreds of species. Jasmine tobacco is different (Solanaceae).

Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

There are alot of side stalks, suckers, on this plant which started almost at the same time as the main stalk. I don't mind since I'm growing it for the flowers. Last year the Canik did not start growing suckers until the main stalk had grown 2-2.5 feet high.

 

[Knucklehead]

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There are alot of side stalks, suckers, on this plant which started almost at the same time as the main stalk. I don't mind since I'm growing it for the flowers. Last year the Canik did not start growing suckers until the main stalk had grown 2-2.5 feet high.

Cool wheat field. Are you growing your own grain or making your own straw or both? I see the mulch.

 

[smallwanderings]

Cool wheat field. Are you growing your own grain or making your own straw or both? I see the mulch.

I planted the wheat from some I had in my freezer, which I was using to make bread. This in my garden I will plant as a cover crop / green manure, this fall. The mulch is hay I got off Craigslist for a 67 cents a bale; there is also some grass clippings.