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Has anyone successfully started tomatoes in a Texas summer?
Comments (9)I started tomatoes this summer for the fall. I started them inside on June 5th and set most of them out around July 18th. The plants that I have are: Mexico; Peron Sprayless; Boondocks; Black Plum; and Arkansas Traveler. The Mexico, Boondocks, and Black Plum are doing great and have plenty of flowers on them (though there are no maters yet). The Peron Sprayless and Arkansas Traveler are not growing...it is like they are stunted. They are all in containers. The Mexico and Boondocks are in EarthBoxes and the others are in regular flower pots. I have never done this before, and didn't know if it would be better to plant the seed directly into the ground or to start indoors, so I just took a chance and did the indoor thing. There were several cells of the seed starter tray that did not germinate and when I had planted all of the ones that did, I dumped the seed starter in the compost pile...now I have 3 more tomato plants growing there. It will be interesting to see if they amount to anything!...See MoreYou Know Youre Addicted to Gardening When(Supplemented version)
Comments (15)Way too funny! I found many, many things that apply to me lol! I especially like the one where you are driving down the road and almost crash into a tree because you are trying to see other peoples gardens! lolololol! That definitely describes me! I almost back ended someone while trying to turn my head 360 degrees to see someones garden! lol You know you are addicted to gardening when you sit outside at work during a break and think about what else needs to be done in the garden that day and week. And, yes my bathroom has lots of reading material of the gardening type! My hubby thinks I'm nuts!...See MoreRevision of 'You Know You're Addicted to Gardening When' :
Comments (2)Someone's bound to come on and chastise me, but...About the annuals thing: there was a time 20 yrs ago when your 2nd teeshirt would have been most appropriate in my book. I'll NEVER forget when, 20 yrs ago,3 yrs. after moving here, I met the local garden club president, standing in line at the bank. And I swear to you, I am not kidding, that after I told her about our gardens,she asked me, "What's a perennial?"* But now annuals are yet another extension (along w/ tropicals etc.) of the vast world of "the advanced gardener". My version of your annuals tshirt would say "Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Impatiens" (but then again there ARE some exquisite exotic impatiens...!)and I bet many gardeners have their own fill-in-the-blank dislikes. best, mindy www.cottonarboretum.com/ * I am NOT saying that garden club presidents are all like this.That experience was mine, in my particular town, in 1990....See MoreBy Jove, I think I've GOT it!: Describing the late summer garden
Comments (14)Whatever our term for the look of our late-season gardens, the epithet we chose probably reveals more about our personal garden styles and/or choices more than anything else. One person's "ratty" or "overgrown" is another gardener's "lush" or "explosively beautiful" - one visitor actually used that latter term one early October, and I've never forgotten it ! "Wild and wooly" certainly works for me, although I'm definitely partial to relatively arcane words like "blowsy". . .but don't you sometimes wonder if some of this late season "exhuberance" isn't partially self-willed - you know, minor gaffes earlier in the season when we failed to use the necessary stake or grow support, or tie something back that we KNEW would pitch over - our deliberate negligence the result of deeply repressed knowledge that our shameful failures will bring a certain, well, blowsiness, to the garden. . .and we LIKE it ! My favorite example of this "lack of discipline in the garden" is a very old, rangey chrysanthemum (blooms in Oct/Nov here), which tends to send out long stems in its bed and then the flower heads pop in various sunny spots. For several years now, it has grown over to, and under, a slatted bench on the lawn edge of a bed, and then pops up all around and THROUGH the bench, creating a "seat of flowers" - what's not to love about that? :) Carl...See More
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