Our raised bed on the deck is starting to produce results. BLTs in our future
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Our raised bed on the deck is starting to produce results. BLTs in our future
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Awesome. I had my first Cherokee Purple tomato sandwich this weekend. Nothing like vine ripened tomato sandwich and Cherokee Purple are my favorite.
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Bacterial Wilt killed my tomato plants 2 years in a row now. I had to replant 3 Determinates with the first big tomato starting to turn as of yesterday. Is it OK to say "I'm Jealous"?
If I remember my Daddy's advice on Wilt correctly, you need to replace your soil. As you have found, the bacteria remains in the soil forever. He grew a 1/2 acre garden every year. I helped as I grew up, but was never fascinated by the process and details as much as he. He was the little old man that fed the neighborhood from his garden.Quote:
Originally Posted by rojoguio
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I spray my plants with Fungicide 3 but it doesn’t help with soil issues.
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Read up some on it. It’s nasty stuff not easily controlled or treated. I’d contact your local soil department and see if they can help or have any recommendations. I try to avoid chemicals personally.
I'm tired of the fight. I bought sterile soil, used a 25 gallon pot, have them on a automatic waterer twice a day for 10 minutes, and my test plants are gorgeous. I have numerous 25 gallon pots since I propagate & cross graft trees as another hobby (why I have over 80 varieties on site) so next year my first garden purchase will be a pallet of potting soil. (and Determinate tomatoes all the way!)Quote:
Originally Posted by slowhand
So what’s a determinate tomato?
once its in the soil you have to cover the soil with black plastic for 6 months to kill everything. I'm too tired of this fight. I do not have the room to rotate a crop because I have trees everywhere. The wine comes first, I can go to the Farmer's Market in Desperation for a Homegrown Tomato for BLT's.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
I like the fungicide cause it’s organic…not that I am into organic as a habitQuote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
2 types of tomato plants, the Indeterminate tomato keeps growing, 3 years ago by this time I had 12ft tall tomato plants (why I kept trying). Determinate tomato plants grow to a certain height, set fruit on main and sucker stalks, the stalks are so thick you don't usually have to stake them, but when they are done they die. You sucker Indeterminate tomatos, as they set fruit you also prune some of the leaves to grow Monster Big Beef Steak tomatoes.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
We try to do organic best we can. Also with indeterminate they produce all season. Determinate they produce all then die. Went to Tomatopalooza one year with Craig LeHoullier and sampled probably 50+ varieties of tomatoes. Kept seeds for most I tried and grew most that next year. Sure was a lot of work but we narrowed down the varieties we liked the best. Cherokee Purple being #1 which was actually named by Craig LeHoullier. Craigs book Epic Tomatoes is an excellent book if you like tomatoes.
Learned something tonight! Thanks guys.
Vines on the power line are loaded this year. In two weeks or so I will be a pickin
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the good news here is we dont grow no fungus or bacteria , its way to hot and dry for them to survive , just saying ....:Rofl
Fungi no good! Berries were though…:biggrin