<p>somemom, they work like magic. :)</p>
<p>Mine look like these - leather, long, gauntlet-style (I’m not sure who the maker was):</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Womanswork 373S Rose Gauntlet Glove, Small: Patio, Lawn & Garden](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Womanswork-373S-Gauntlet-Glove-Small/dp/B0027OR7JE/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1307995406&sr=8-17]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Womanswork-373S-Gauntlet-Glove-Small/dp/B0027OR7JE/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1307995406&sr=8-17)</p>
<p>I’m ROFL at the review - the reviewer bought them for brushing her vicious Persian. LOL! If a cat cannot claw through the glove…</p>
<p>somemom, if I’m not mistaken, cilantro doesn’t like hot weather. It likes it sunny but cool.</p>
<p>^^^Right. I actually moved mine to a more shady area - and it’s doing better.</p>
<p>Cilantro though, does have a short life as it turns into coriander before too long. I am trying to grow it by seed this year so I can have new crops coming up at different times.</p>
<p>I love cilantro!</p>
<p>BB: my DH gave me those gloves (in medium) for Christmas this year. I adore them.</p>
<p>I’ve had great luck in Seattle with cilantro (and basil) using the “don’t even think about planting it before July 1” method. Then it goes into a large pot in a very sunny spot, grows fast, and is done by September. I still grow basil that way but I decided cilantro wasn’t worth the trouble, as every supermarket near me sells large clumps for very little.</p>
<p>Well, I can’t harvest everything fast enough! I have red romaine and butter lettuce, belgian endive, huge radishes, mustard greens, broccoli raab (all bolted); the beet greens look gorgeous. Peas are very slow for some reason (with different varieties at different rates.) Scarlet runner beans are running! Still not planting my peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants til the end of the third week of June, but fennel is all planted. All the herbs are doing nicely.</p>
<p>All flowers going crazy!</p>
<p>Yes, finally, flowers are getting there! </p>
<p>mini, I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one still babying her heat-loving veggies. One of my coworkers already got her tomatoes in the ground a week ago, but I’m giving mine one more week in the greenhouse.</p>
<p>Hmm, perhaps I misunderstood my neighbor? And it sounds like I started it too soon when I tried. Maybe I will give it a try with cilantro & basil next month</p>
<p>somemom: this is Sunset magazine’s approach to cilantro: [A</a> better way to grow cilantro - Sunset.com](<a href=“http://www.sunset.com/garden/flowers-plants/better-way-grow-cilantro-00400000017171/]A”>Grow Cilantro the Better Way With Our Clever Growing Guide)</p>
<p>Is there a way to keep birds off my blueberry bushes? There were quite a few green blueberries I was waiting to ripe. All gone!</p>
<p>Birds, squirrels, chipmunks, deer - it’s a wonder we try to plant anything. But gardeners, by nature, are full of hope. Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result, might be some people’s definition of insanity; but it’s my definition of gardening!</p>
<p>dmd77, As a Cilantro Addict I thank you for posting that Sunset how-to piece. Have printed it and will give it a try. My idea of bliss is all the fresh cilantro I need . . .</p>
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<p>Now that you mention it, I lose all my apples to chipmunks. Didn’t make the connection between apples and blueberries. I gave up on apples and planted blueberries. It didn’t occur to me those cute catbirds will find them in no time!</p>
<p>Iglooo - check the chipmunk’s teeth. If they’re blue, that’s the culprit. ;)</p>
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<p>This has not been a good iris season this year. Is that true for any of you? Some buds have just rotted without opening.</p>
<p>This question is about bell pepper plants: how much is a “normal” yield from one? I have two Arianne bell pepper plants that appear to be nice and healthy. I take care of them in the same manner as my shisito and jalepeno plants, which are giving up fruit like crazy. One Arianne has only put out 4 peppers so far, the other, 2. The fruit I harvested from both came from the middle and bottom of the plants, and each of them now have some new flowers toward the top. Just curious, as I’ve expected more from them by now.</p>
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<p>My irises are doing fabulously this year!</p>
<p>I’ve never had luck with traditional peppers so I don’t know what’s normal. I’ve moved my whole garden this year though and I’ve got several flowers on each of my pepper plants so I’m hoping for good results.</p>
<p>Has anyone tried sea magic on their vegetable plants? [Sea</a> Magic Organic Growth Activator, Fertilizers, Gardening Supplies and Garden Tools at Burpee.com](<a href=“http://www.burpee.com/gardening-supplies/fertilizers/sea-magic-organic-growth-activator-prod001312.html]Sea”>http://www.burpee.com/gardening-supplies/fertilizers/sea-magic-organic-growth-activator-prod001312.html) I ordered this from Burpee and just got it yesterday. You put the sea magic fertilizer in a gallon jug of water and then add 1/2 cup of that fertilizer-water to a big watering can filled with water and water as usual, so it’s very diluted. The reviews were phenomenal so I have high hopes. </p>
<p>Most of my plants are doing well this year with the exception of a cucumber plant but I think I did it a disservice by planting it in the old garden, which I turned into a compost heap and is now also filled with volunteer pumpkin and sunflowers! I hand-pollinated the one female cucumber flower I found since the other female to-be cukes died off. I hope my new magic fertilizer somehow makes the cucumber plant take off.</p>
<p>Well, all the eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, fennel, etc. are now in the ground. They are looking at me as if I am nuts! (it’s still 64 degrees). I have TRUCKLOADS (okay, I exaggerate) of Belgian endive and Red Romaine. Not a single carrot. Putting in bean seeds today.</p>