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Grandad always waited till after April 20. I'm feeling lucky! http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/04/03/jususage.jpg
Get ready to cover or replant
This is just some early season hit or miss we do up by my house. If it dies oh well, big garden out back after the 20th. You ain't got to hate!
Me no hateQuote:
Originally Posted by slimeyslab
So Kelly what kind of matoes do you mainly plant for eating raw? We love a strong acid tasting tomato and didn't do too good last year with eating ones but put up a lot for cooking. Your little garden is bigger than my only garden, done got too old for a big one. Just tomato, qukes, dwarf okra, butterbeans and purple stringbeans. We have a place we can buy peas already shelled and debug bite. Peas take a lot of room. Need to get busy on mine.
Better Boys, Early Girls, Roma's, and some super sweet cherries for the first go round. I need a BLT fix in a bad way.
Better check and see if Major has left any bacon in the area.:)
Ain't that the truth... Slimeyslab is a gambler for sure.. Sleeting here earlier..Quote:
Originally Posted by jigflinger
Got your check btw... Thanks
Hush about the sleet. Glad you got the check.
Always have the Early Girls and Better Boys but they just didn't have the acid taste last year to me. Don't even need the bacon with the 1st ones just some bread and Hellmans Real. We live on tomato sandwiches for about a month when they 1st come in.Quote:
Originally Posted by slimeyslab
Looks great. I usually plant around the 3rd week of march. May have to cover it once or twice but never had much problem. You got some great lookin soul
Don I was thinking the same thing about the soul,but maybe its mulch.
Nope, it's a mix of top soil, manure, sand, peat moss, and ??.
I planted a bunch of those Romas one year Slimey. Had so many that my wife made a bunch of homemade salsa, they make a fine tasting salsa.
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Good Luck Slimy. Don't know just how much rain we may get, hope your maters don't get the Black rot. That sure is some good looking soil you got there!What all you got planted?
Early garden has maters, peppers, onions, and my 4 year old daughter wanted to plant some strawberries. In a few weeks ill plant squash, okra, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupe, radishes, carrots and I'm sure something else. Also another 20 tomato plants.
Looks good.
add cottonseed hulls to the soil mix, you'll have a tomato plants tall as your house...
It sucked not planting one this year. That's OK, when we do get moved the place we get's gonna have a nice garden spot or I ain;t buying it. I'll have that sucker done right
Looks good, I hope not to early.
Watering the maters: Drill a few 1/8" to 1/4" holes in the bottom of some 2 liter drink bottles. Cut the neck off so the hole is about 2" dia., Bury the bottle about 3/4 ways deep or more close to each plant. Add 1 teaspoon of fertilizer to each bottle, 6 12 12 if you can find it, fill with water. Refill water every 2 or 3 days. Add fertilizer every 10 days.
Bottom rot, bloom drop: suppose to be from not enough calcium in the soil. You can find a bottle of powder at the store. Mix it with water and spray the plants. I get the big bottle of calcium capsules from the health center. I add 4 separated capsules everytime I fertilize the water bottles.
You'll be fine Slimey.....trust me
Man, you gonna have some good eats for sure!
Man just you talkin bout those squash done flung a cravin on me Slimey! Love me some yellow squash. My wife chops them up and kinda stews them down in skillet with some onions chopped up real fine in them, they are good bro.
Powder milk is the best thing I have found for calcium. Just sprinkle it on the ground. Works great.
Garden looks great.
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Originally Posted by gitdagrease
That sounds great just remember to throw some bacon into the mix.Quote:
Originally Posted by GitDaGrease