What containers most successful for strawberries?
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favorite vegetables to grow successful in containers
Comments (3)I do several different determinate variety tomatoes in 10 gallon containers (1 each), several indeterminate varieties in 15-20 gallon containers (1 each), 4 heads of cabbage in 10 gallons, peppers plants both hot and sweet in 7-10 gallons, and several mixed varieties of leaf lettuce in 5-7 gallon containers. Have also have fairly good luck with potatoes in 10 gallon Grow Bags. Nantes carrots do well in containers and so do strawberries and rhubarb. Dave...See MoreMost successful tomatoes
Comments (17)Thanks Dawn. I thought I had asked that question before but couldn't find it. Now the worse part of the story is that I think I have 43 kinds of tomato seed and I don't have any of those five. LOL I think I will just look for one of them. I have Thessaloniki which is listed as a 60-80 day tomato, but it didn't get a good report from Jay. I think I may have a couple more that are supposed to be in the 65 day range. Most people here shoot for a 4th of July date, I think. I was much earlier that that one year, but most years that seems to be about right. I am hoping to try to hit a real early date with 2 or 3 plants. I have some plans of how I plan to accomplish that. LOL It has been very cool here several nights and I have some brown leaves on some okra and one tomato plant that happened over night a few nights ago. They are on the end of the row that gets more wind straight across them, but I am not sure that it is cold damage because the other plants next to them are fine. I still have a lot of peppers on my vines but the cooler weather seems to have slowed them down some. The green beans are still going strong. In the last week, the cole crops have started to stand up better and growing faster, so this seems to be just the kind of weather they really like. My cowpeas didn't make at all and I doubt that they will have time since the Tulsa station is saying that they could get a frost as early as the weekend and I'm a long way north of them. Sometimes I get a couple extra weeks because of the lake, but this year I am sure the lake has been cooling down slowly as the temps have gone lower over a longer period of time. They made pretty vines and have bloomed the last couple of weeks but I haven't seen any pods. I plan to check them carefully tomorrow and see if there is anything at all. I just got them in much too late because I assumed we would still have a lot of hot weather in August and September. Some of the winter squash that I planted late is probably going to be OK. I have not pulled any because last time I checked, I could still press my finger nail into it but they have colored up good. I think I will get a couple of acorn type and quiet a few butternut. The spaghetti squash was what I was most interested in getting but I doubt that it will make it. It is growing really fast now but will not reach it's 100 days until the end of October and I think we will have a freeze before that, for sure. Oh well, I got the seed in a trade and it was an experiment anyway since I knew there was a chance that it wouldn't have time to mature from my late planting. I drove back over to Baker Creek and took my friend and they had a sale on their 2009 seeds but they are very picked over by this time of year. They are beginning to put out several 2010 seeds, and they told me the catalog would be sent out in December. I have never had their catalog so I am looking forward to getting one this year. I'm not sure why because I have already bought all of my seeds for the next year.....and then some, but it will be fun to look at. Since I have about 100 packs of their seed, maybe I can use the catalog as a planting guide. LOL My DH is having a problem with a knee and he didn't go with us but Anna and I had a good time anyway and enjoyed the seed store. She bought Jonathon apples, green beans, and sweet potatoes from the vendors, and about 30 packs of seed. I looked for silkies but they didn't have any today. I probably will not go back until the May festival. That is a big 2 day thing and should be great, but since they had 6,000 people this year and the event gets bigger every year, I am sure you would need a motel reservation many months earlier. We left home at 7 today, did all our shopping and had lunch at their little place, and were home at 3 o'clock. I had already bought so many seed, but I was there....and the price was right....etc, etc, etc. I bought several things that I probably would not have selected otherwise. I notice that I got home with a lot of pink tomatoes and several new squash, and of course a lot of other things I didn't need. I did buy Ilinni Star tomato and Collective Farm Woman melon which I have wanted to try, and a few new squash....See MoreMost Success Growing Which Tropical Fruit Tree
Comments (5)Leona, what exactly translates into a "Tropical" for this thread? Do you mean just the exotic stuff like Cherimoya, Sapotes, Dragon Fruit? Or do low-chill fruit trees count? My most productive, easy to grow, least problematic fruiting plants are my low chill Apples/Peaches/Nectarines/Plums/Blueberries/Strawberries and Blackberries. The only issues with them is thievery by squirrels. I've had very good luck with Figs, Mangoes, Loquats, Barbados Cherry, Miracle Fruit, and many Citrus. My Bananas grow well and look good, but rarely fruit. I suspect I don't feed them enough. Papayas and Cattley Guavas are super easy to grow here, but all the fruit are ruined by fruit flies, so I can't call them a success. If I had to pick just one, I'd waver between Persian Lime or Tropic Snow Peach. Both are superb! Many of my more exotic trees are new, so I can't call them successes yet(G). Lisa...See MorePLease list the veggis you have had the most success with here
Comments (40)All of our tomatoes have put on a LOT of new growth and many blooms; I harvested tomatoes yesterday from this new growth. The tomato trimmings I stuck in my flowerbeds are blooming, no tomatoes yet but have my fingers crossed. I have more trimmings in a 5 gal bucket rooting in water. That seems to work very well with less wilt when put in the soil. We may have to buy another freezer if all these tomato plants produce tomatoes and we have a late freeze! The neighbors will be happy...one neighbor said his wife wanted 8 lbs of tomatoes but our one little grocery store wanted $4/lb so he just bought 4 lbs! He was very tickled when we showed up with a bag of tomatoes for them. I have already swapped for over a dozen different varieties of tomatoes to try next year such as Big Zac, Cherokee Purple, etc. The volunteer pepper plant is a Poblano and it is covered with peppers, am currently letting a couple of them ripen so I can save seeds. These two are a brillant red, very pretty on the tall plant which is taller than me. Some are over 6 inches long and hope to make some chili rellenos while my hubby is off the next two days. Sweet Potato vines continue to snake through the beds and are blooming very pretty purple blooms. Gotta make trellis or arbors for vertical gardening next year! The Delicata Squash turned out to be Spaghetti Squash instead. Mildew has been a problem with it since I use shower nozzle on hose to water, hoping to add soaker hose or drip irrigation next year. Currently harvesting comfrey leaves for the compost pile and to make comfrey tea. Yesterday harvested 3 yellow icebox sized watermelons and should have cantaloupe any day now from a volunteer vine that came up from last year's compost pile. Am reading online to see how to harvest basil before a freeze gets it. Have two varieties this year and have swapped for seeds for 3 or 4 more for 2008 garden. We are creating an outdoor living room. Currently painting our outdoor furniture some lively colors to go with all the flowers. The area has 2 walls consisting of cannas, 3rd wall is a lantana bed; we look forward to relaxing in the shade with a cool beverage and watching the butterflies and hummingbirds nectaring and laying their eggs on host plants. Have two pots of mint by the glider, chocolate mint perfumes the air (I crave chocolate after brushing against it!) but the orange mint is disappointing. Hoping to add other varieties of mint in 2008. God Bless! Peggy...See Morebriergardener_gw
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