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Thank you all, this is great!

11 years ago

I am so excited this year I am quite successfully growing ALOT of stuff indoors thanks to all your advice.
I could not do it without your knowledge and willingness to share.
I have over 90 tomatoe plants and they are all doing well.They are bigger than the ones I bought in the store last year and the stem is almost as big as a marker. I am like a little kid excited to see every day how much they have grown . As soon as this freeze breaks I will begin hardening again and then they can go to their new homes. Most of them I will giving away to friends.
P.S. did I mention I love this corner of the GW.Y'all are the friendliest bunch. I dont comment much but I am here studying all the time.
Thank you, kim

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Macmex
11 years ago
So glad it's going well for you!

George
Tahlequah, OK
Okiedawn OK Zone 7
11 years ago
Kim,

Like George, I am glad to hear that everything is going so well for you. Your friends are going to be so thrilled with the home-grown plants you share with them.

Now, don't be a stranger and post more often please! I'd been wondering where you were and if you were doing alright.

I'm not crazy about this latest round of windy, cold weather, but if it means that maybe we won't be seeing 90 degrees in April this year, then I'm all for it.

My tomato plants have been thoroughly hardened off already, but now that I've moved them back inside the greenhouse for a few days, they'll need to be hardened off somewhat all over again. The greenhouse has 50% shade cloth, so once they spend a few consecutive days in there, they lose some of the hardening-off that already had been accomplished. This year the hardening-off process has been a bit of a roller coaster ride with one step forward, two steps back here lately.

Dawn
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E.O., many of us, have found ourselves in the middle of a 'spat' or in disfavor, if posting long enough! I see it as a 'family thing' where if you hang out with anyone long enough there is bound to be a conflict of opinion or an 'annoyance' factor raising it's head, or a 'bruising of feelings' on a day when if it were another, we might not be nearly so sensitive. The good thing about our *group* (I feel) is when we do clash, it isn't too long before we seem to get past it and move on with life in the garden! I'm not a grudge holder, myself--life is too short! I'm willing to move on, and hope for better things for the future! It's the human-factor we deal with, good and bad!! :o) I find there is something I like and that is positive about every person that posts regularly! If not--I would not return so often---as I do!;o)
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luvncannin
Original Author
11 years ago
Thank you. So far so good.
Dawn I usually try not to post too much. my sister says I dont type as well as I speak and things come out all jumbled.
But I love gardening so I talk it all the time.
This weather has me starting all over too with the hardening off process. since it froze this weekend and only got up in the low 40's I did not chance shocking them.
Kim
Okiedawn OK Zone 7
11 years ago
Kim,

Just write it, and if it is jumbled, we'll decipher it. We all write things that come out jumbled sometimes.

My tomatoes are back to a half-day of full sun now, for the third time since I started hardening them off. About the time I get to 7 or 8 hours a day, a cold front comes along and they stay inside for 2-4 days and we're back at square one again. It is just one of those years.

We'll be nice and warm here at our house until Tuesday of next week and then we'll be cold again. Same song, third or fourth verse......the tomatoes probably wonder what is wrong with me and why I keep yanking them back inside about the time they are ready to go into the ground.

Dawn

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