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racerboy71

racerboy71

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Dave's Not Here said:
I'm not one of those that will sit there and eat a big tomato by itself, but I always have a great BLT when I get that first Cherokee Purple of the year. I make my salsa with the exact same ingredients that @TripleMindedGee5150 does. Can't wait to get some tomatoes... starting to get a few little green ones.
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my mom can eat a tomato like an apple, just sprinkle some salt on it and go to town.. me, ehh, not so much, lol.. i give her a lot of them that don't go towards salsa... and yeah, that's pretty much the same recipe i use too, i just leave out the cilantro as i'm not a big fan either. grew it a few years ago..
also have a few different kinds of mint that have been growing in the yard for years now. it's pretty much just wild in the yard at this point..
i got a few small green tomatoes too... we had a nasty storm i think it was tuesday night, and i was worried the garden would suffer and get blown away.. lots of downed trees in the neighborhood and we were without power for almost a full day.
the garden did well though.. just one tomato cage fell over and took the plant with it... pushed the cage back in and stood the plant back up and looks good.. i had just watered with some fox farms big bud i think it was the day before..
my cucumber plants and squash are really starting to take off finally.. i'm going to have a wall of cucumbers in not too long..
 
Dave's Not Here

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Taken a few days ago on one of the few dry and sunny days we've had.

These pepper plants I revegetated/overwintered are loading up, my other peppers are just getting started... I think I counted 60 pepper plants in the 4x8 bed... I packed them in like this last year and it was a pepper machine. I plan on overwintering 4-6 pepper plants this year.

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Here's some beans and cucumbers... I read they did well together so stuck them both in a 2x8 box. Both are just starting to flower.

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Tomato - melon patch, the plants closet to the camera, the soil doesn't drain as well and it has been raining a lot and it has stunted their growth a little. Like today the ones up front were sitting in water after we got tons of rain dumped on us again. They look healthy so far, just smaller than the ones further down the row which look like they're going to be monsters.

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Dave's Not Here

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racerboy71 said:
my mom can eat a tomato like an apple, just sprinkle some salt on it and go to town.. me, ehh, not so much, lol.. i give her a lot of them that don't go towards salsa... and yeah, that's pretty much the same recipe i use too, i just leave out the cilantro as i'm not a big fan either. grew it a few years ago..
also have a few different kinds of mint that have been growing in the yard for years now. it's pretty much just wild in the yard at this point..
i got a few small green tomatoes too... we had a nasty storm i think it was tuesday night, and i was worried the garden would suffer and get blown away.. lots of downed trees in the neighborhood and we were without power for almost a full day.
the garden did well though.. just one tomato cage fell over and took the plant with it... pushed the cage back in and stood the plant back up and looks good.. i had just watered with some fox farms big bud i think it was the day before..
my cucumber plants and squash are really starting to take off finally.. i'm going to have a wall of cucumbers in not too long..
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My mom eats tomatoes like that too, where as I'm more like you... lol I like cooking up homemade tomato sauce mostly. It has been storming a lot here too, nothing really knocked over though, no trees down or extended power outages yet though, just tons of rain, every day it rains. And it's supposed to keep on raining, 8 of the next 10 days have rain in the forecast... I should have grown rice!
 
TripleMindedGee5150

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@racerboy71 I had a friend in 6th-7th that used to eat tomatoes with sugar. He grabbed one took a bite and put sugar all on it. I stared at him hard. He was all "what you never eat tomatoes with sugar???" All surprised.

"Naw bruh yo mom been lying to you Chris ..."
 
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Here's my garden this AM. I'm going to check that zucchini flower when I get home. People actually make dishes with those huh?

In the blurry pic are my two little shits. White buffalo and a candyland. And then another white buffalo in the micro cab.
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Them cucumber kinda close to my tan pot. I didn't account for pm. Good thing its mobile. I have American Pickle and Lemon cucumbers.
 
Dave's Not Here

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TripleMindedGee5150 said:
Here's my garden this AM. I'm going to check that zucchini flower when I get home. People actually make dishes with those huh?

In the blurry pic are my two little shits. White buffalo and a candyland. And then another white buffalo in the micro cab.

Them cucumber kinda close to my tan pot. I didn't account for pm. Good thing its mobile. I have American Pickle and Lemon cucumbers.
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I've beer battered and deep fried the zucchini flowers before and they were pretty good but what isn't deep friend, beer battered and dipped in something? I bet you could sell dog turds on a stick at the state fair and people would love them if you battered, deep fried them and threw some ketchup on them.
 
Silky T

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Dave's Not Here said:
I know some of you guys in warmer areas are a lot farther along than my cool zone 5... I'm more interested in seeing yours than looking at mine.... Also interested in how you support them.

Here's my main tomato patch for this year, I have a few more plants scattered around the yard but I prepared the soil best for these.

I dug a 3-5 gallon hole for each one and mixed in some halfway finished leaf/grass compost from my pile, a teaspoon or so each of blood and bone meal and a little peat to help break up the clay heavy soil a little more.

I found these 7ft tall plastic coated rebar stakes at Menards for about $2.50 each and they look like they'll last more than a couple seasons so I invested in a few (could still use a few more.) They might be almost tall enough. Last year I was using 5' bamboo stakes and 5' fence posts and they weren't tall enough and a couple of the bamboo ones fell over in storms. Plus the bamboo stakes are only good for a season or two before they start rotting.

Planted with no rhyme or reason in this order... I was just getting them in the ground.

Back row, near the bush line...
  1. Belgium Giant
  2. Belgium Giant
  3. Brandywine
  4. Cherokee Purple
  5. Black Plum
  6. Black Plum
  7. Brandywine
Front row from the left:
1. Amish Paste
2. Amish Paste
3. Amish Paste
4. Cherokee Purple
5. Belgium Giant
6. Brandywine
7. Amish Paste
8. Amish Paste
9. Amish Paste

Short 3rd row
  1. Brandywine
  2. Cherokee Purple
  3. Black Cherry
These were just tall scrawny starts that I buried deep, some have been in the ground for about a month, others only a couple weeks. I used the black containers with the bottoms cut off to keep the ravenous yard rabbits from eating the starts, which worked great, 100% survival rate... I'm probably going to leave them on there unless anyone has any good reason I shouldn't (please share if you do.)

Still working on sheet composting around them with cardboard and grass clippings.

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I learned a trick you might want to use to keep the "yard rabbits" away from your plants. Since it appears that you already have blood meal, sprinkle that all around the perimeter of your garden and no animals will come near it. I use it around my car to keep the cats off. Works great! Rememeber to redo it after every storm or heavy rain shower.

I'm actually starting a tomatoe grow myself and am in a pickle. I don't have a garden. I do have several of those large black pots (not as big as yours but almost). Can you grow a tomatoe plant well in a bucket or do they prefer to be in the ground? I planted them about a month ago and they are about a foot tall-- really healthy with hairy stems. It's time to transplant because they're in small planters. I actually didn't expect them to grow because I actually used tomatoe seeds that I dried out. It took about 2 weeks to show, but once they sprouted, they took off. I haven't a clue what kind they are. Romas I'm sure.

Looking forward to watching your tomatoe grow!
 
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Silky T

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rkymtnman said:
i just started 3 cherry and 3 stupice. short season here in CO. and in greenhouse only or the deer would make short work of them. also have 1 serrano and 1 jumbo jalapeno going.
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Use blood meal around your plants, it keeps critters away. Just sprinke around the perimeter and don't forget to redo after every heavy rain.
 
Dave's Not Here

Dave's Not Here

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Silky T said:
I learned a trick you might want to use to keep the "yard rabbits" away from your plants. Since it appears that you already have blood meal, sprinkle that all around the perimeter of your garden and no animals will come near it. I use it around my car to keep the cats off. Works great! Rememeber to redo it after every storm or heavy rain shower.

I'm actually starting a tomatoe grow myself and am in a pickle. I don't have a garden. I do have several of those large black pots (not as big as yours but almost). Can you grow a tomatoe plant well in a bucket or do they prefer to be in the ground? I planted them about a month ago and they are about a foot tall-- really healthy with hairy stems. It's time to transplant because they're in small planters. I actually didn't expect them to grow because I actually used tomatoe seeds that I dried out. It took about 2 weeks to show, but once they sprouted, they took off. I haven't a clue what kind they are. Romas I'm sure.

Looking forward to watching your tomatoe grow!
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We've got a little dog that has the run of the yard too and he'll eat the blood meal if it's on top of the soil, he sniffs that stuff out. If It weren't for the dog I'd use a very hot pepper spray. The black 3 gallon containers with the bottoms cut out kept the rabbits off my tomatoes.

I plant mine in the ground. I've never had much luck growing container tomatoes but I see others online that do, just give it a shot, a 5 gallon container would probably be better.
 
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