Jet star Tomatoes

A few years ago I was doing this roof for this farmer. As the day went on the farmer was out in his garden running his tiller around in a circle about 15 ft wide…

Then he came out with a 5 gallon bucket and fill it with dirt he then dump the dirt far in another section of his garden…after a bit he walk out of his shed with bucket fill with something else and dump it back into the circle he been working on and started the tiller up again.

He then put some weed control netting down and later he walked out with 2 section of concrete mesh wire. One was 8 ft. long and the other was 10 ft. bye 6 ft. tall. He put the first 8 ft one together in a circle and then planted 6 jet star tomatoes around it. Then he put the 10 ft. around the first.

Later I ask what was in the bucket. Sheep manure he said. You take those jet star as they grow up between the wire you keep the limbs pull inside. This keeps the center clear for air circulation. He said they will grow out the top of this 6 ft gage and produce 400 to 500 pounds of tomatoes. He also made it clear it had to be jet star tomatoes.

A couple months later I stop by wanted to see if this really happen and it sure did. These tomatoes were growing out the top of that gage and were loaded down big time.

The year before I move to Missouri, I tried this but could not find any sheep manure so I used Tomato Tone. I had a lot of tomatoes but not like the farmer did.

When I first moved to Missouri I lived down there in Stone County and they call it that for a reason.So I was a bucket farmer for the last 3 years. Not very good.

SO now that I have another garden spot I’m going to do this again. Just need to find some sheep Manure. :biggrin

wrong place for sheep poo. nothing but bull caca here

:hesaid

I can save you some OSS manure, but it is mostly full of BS........

Find you a couple of horse stables. Get that and mix with some pine bark mulch. Works almost as good.

Hit up some 4h clubs and go to a show bet you will get more than a 5gal bucket. Good luck

How much you want? I am sure I could get you some in the Windsor area. Which is north of Truman lake 15 miles or so. My older brother owns a zoo or as he calls them farms. Hard to tell what he has from one time out there until the next time out. But he had several hundred sheep at one time. If its worth your trip up here let me know and I will see if we can get you some. Use to be a big farm on 65 hwy close to the 54 junction that had a lot of sheep. But it has been a few years since I have been down that way.

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Originally Posted by Jigging15

How much you want? I am sure I could get you some in the Windsor area. Which is north of Truman lake 15 miles or so. My older brother owns a zoo or as he calls them farms. Hard to tell what he has from one time out there until the next time out. But he had several hundred sheep at one time. If its worth your trip up here let me know and I will see if we can get you some. Use to be a big farm on 65 hwy close to the 54 junction that had a lot of sheep. But it has been a few years since I have been down that way.

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Two five gallon would be plenty.. I could always come over that way and fish some too!!!

I will give him a call and see if we can get some for you. Guess we have a little while. Maybe if he has some we can find a nice day and get you out on Truman for some fishing to make it worth your trip over here.

Rabbit manure is suppose to be really good too. I have always used horse or cow. Used horse when we had horses. Now I use cow. Just take a bucket out to the pasture and look for the older and dryer piles.

Rabbit would have been my secound choice. I hear ya on the other types but for about 5 years i saw that farmers matter's pouring out he top of that cage. Back then i was to busy to have a garden. Got plenty of time. It be MAy before we can plant em'.

Rabbit is real rich or hot. It takes very little of it or it will burn up what you plant in it. Mixed with other things in moderation it can be very good and only takes a little.

I don't use chicken because it is suppose to be hot too.

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Originally Posted by perchplucker

I don't use chicken because it is suppose to be hot too.

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Yea that's what i hear. Got a line on some sheep poo.. Thats what i want to try thanks

Here a few Jet Star's from my patch last year, no sheep poo on themnonono

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You might try Jack.....he's fond of sheep........:biggrin

Jerky Log
Thats a bunch of nice ones.. How many plants did you have???

I had about 1900 last year, that's why my fishing is over by the end of
May!

Oh mi:yikes --- I'm just a pup ,,:notworthy So u didn't use any typ of feritlezer?

I have a couple of gins close by so I use cotton hulls the most. There is an oil producer in Memphis, I could pay for a truck load of cotton seed hulls. A couple of horse stables nearby that I can get a few loads. Cattle farms are farther out, chicken farms aren't around here close. I hear of some AR farmers getting the water, chicken house washout to add to their gardens and fields. I tried some chicken manure some years back. We dug into the pile and found dead chickens. My brother wasn't into that. So we didn't get that much and never went back.

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Originally Posted by Charley41

Oh mi:yikes --- I'm just a pup ,,:notworthy So u didn't use any typ of feritlezer?

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Must fertilize, go to your neighbor Morgan County Seeds ON Kelsay road I believe, and get the Tomato special, .04 oz of it, and .04 oz per plant of calcium nitrate alternate every week. Will grow you some gudduns!

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Originally Posted by Jerkey Log

Must fertilize, go to your neighbor Morgan County Seeds ON Kelsay road I believe, and get the Tomato special, .04 oz of it, and .04 oz per plant of calcium nitrate alternate every week. Will grow you some gudduns!

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I'll give them a call thanks.

They look like real producers...... I'll try some this summer. How are they for taste?

Taste on the Jet Star is in my opinion the best. I grow several varieties with less than stellar taste. But they look good and sell good because they look good!

I grown them several times in the past,, I also like Cherokeepurple, celebrity’s, black Kim, German Johnson and black prince. Jet star always seem to make enough to make my wife happy canning.. Cherokee i've only grow a couble of times out but out of 4 plants i got 12 tomatoes. Big but not many. But dang there good. ( think it had somthing to do with fertilzer)LOL Fix that this year. Celebrity is very good one too..I was a bucket farmer when i lives on the rock.. had 43- 5 gallon bucket of tomotes.. some work other failed... Grandson said u need to put them in the ground. He change his mind when i gave him a shovel in stone county.. LOL