JT's P.A.C.T. Garden

[justintempler]

Pictures taken June 09, 2010
Variety - DelGold
Shooting for a total of 75 plants (9 rows of 7, 2 rows of 6)
Spacing - rows = 3 foot - plants = 2 foot







These are a couple of unwelcome visitors that stopped by for a free lunch.

[justintempler]

Some perspective:


This is the warmup bench incase any of my main string gets injured:

This is training camp hoping for a spot on the warmup bench:

[skyline142]

This is frickin awesome!

[asidrave]

nice baccy garden JT. be sure to keep us updated and takes more pics as they grow

[Snusdog]

Who Bro that is beautiful. Keep us updated with pics.

How many weeks of growth is that on the main garden?

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Holy crap! That looks great, JT! Mine are coming along but still babies...

[myuserid]

That looks awesome.

How do you keep grass from getting mixed in with your soil when you mow?

[danielan]

Nice garden! Very impressive plants!

Thanks for the pictures!

[justintempler]

Snusdog,
I was trying to reconstruct the timeline

04/04 - Bought Jiffy pot
05/08 - Transplanted into styrofoam cups
05/27 - Started transplanting into the garden

myuserid,
I've got one of those old fashioned reel mowers, the yard isn't that big.


Even though I used some Ortho I still ended up with those pests.
I'm not sure what the top one is but the bottom one is a tobacco hornworm.

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse...imgnum=1402126

"Description:Tobacco and tomato hornworms [Manduca sexta (Linnaeus), Manduca quinquemaculata (Hawthorn)]: These two species, usually referred to collectively as "hornworms," are potentially the most destructive insect pests of tobacco. Newly hatched larvae are ¼ inch long, pale green with a large horn at the posterior end. Larger larvae (up to 3 or 4 inches) are bright green in color. Tobacco hornworm larvae have seven white diagonal stripes on each side and a curved red horn. Tomato hornworms have eight white V-shaped marks on each side and the horn is straighter and blue-black. Small larvae chew small irregular holes in leaves. Larger larvae more often feed on leaf margins and may leave only the midribs of leaves.


I'm going to buy some Dipel aka Thuricide.
For use on Tobacco and Tomatoes
Non toxic to humans but it's an organic bacteria that will eat most leaf eating worms from the inside out.

http://www.ehow.com/video_4755645_co...hornworms.html

Home Depot - Thuricide

[f. bandersnatch]

More like "JT's Apocalypse garden." Very impressive.

[sgreger1]

Wow this is impressive, nice little plot you got JT. Also, aren't you glad your not a pest? Think about it, your just going about your day going to eat a meal, and suddenly some higher being has poisoned you and you find yourself being eating from the inside out? I wish I had land so I could plan something, it would be nice to have a PACT contingency plan like some of you do.

[desirexe]

What is there to say...those are some of the most beautiful plants I have ever seen! Your yards looks like mine...well not the plants, but the soil & grass! I only put 3 plants in the ground and I couldn't even manage to put those in a straight, evenly spaced line! hahaha!

[sgreger1]

What is there to say...those are some of the most beautiful plants I have ever seen! Your yards looks like mine...well not the plants, but the soil & grass! I only put 3 plants in the ground and I couldn't even manage to put those in a straight, evenly spaced line! hahaha!

Yah, it is a lot harder to plant heroin poppies than tobacco from what I hear.

[justintempler]

Wow this is impressive, nice little plot you got JT. Also, aren't you glad your not a pest? Think about it, your just going about your day going to eat a meal, and suddenly some higher being has poisoned you and you find yourself being eating from the inside out? I wish I had land so I could plan something, it would be nice to have a PACT contingency plan like some of you do.

Those pests can plant their own damn plants if they're hungry. No free loaders allowed.

What is there to say...those are some of the most beautiful plants I have ever seen! Your yards looks like mine...well not the plants, but the soil & grass! I only put 3 plants in the ground and I couldn't even manage to put those in a straight, evenly spaced line! hahaha!

Your babies look good too. Good luck with them. You should have seen the yard when I started, that compost pile in the third pic is all crap that got raked out plus a hell of a lot of weeds. None of the stuff from the tobacco patch is in that pile. That got burned. I bought some bermudagrass seed and the yard should show some improvement along with the tobacco in future update pics.

[wadetheblade]

That is a fine looking garden justin. Very impressive!