Is it Ok to keep my cherry tomato plant in the black plasti pot
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Comments (18)No more seeds available to request. But to everyone that I have already promised seeds, I will send out seeds as I receive your bubble mailer with postage enclosed. I received 15 requests for seeds! Guess these guys (black cherry) are popular. Thanks for offers of trading. I just don't trade much anymore cause I don't really need many more seeds. I guess I am kinda particular what I want to plant too since gardening in north central Texas is quite the challenge. 2 very short growing seasons (april-may and sept-oct possibly part of nov --- cool veggies can stay in ground all winter but don't grow much), not one long one as many would think. 95-110 degree (all of june-august) weather is not exactly a growing season. I tried winter sowing once, but plants in their mini green house died due to too much heat in their enclosed environment (it was vented) one Feb day it got to 85 degrees! I asked the lady on winter sown and she said take the cap off. I have never seen that on any of the winter sown articles but I will give that a go. wish I could hand out my seeds in person so I could meet all of you. I need the personal contact since I am home bound. ok I am babbling now........See MoreI Planted My First Tomato Plants This Week
Comments (31)Dawn, I understand about your Mom. My Dad died when I was 16, so of course, that was tough. My husbands parents both died in their early 60's about 26 months apart, with the death of my husband's grandfather in between. My mother is still living and will turn 97 this July. After my DH retired from the Air Force, we moved back to that area so that we would be there to help out a bit, since my sister has always had to help my mother a lot. Well, we lived there almost 12 years and so did she. We were still young enough to work a few more years and needed to move to do that. Al took a job with the Boy Scouts and covered the three most NE counties in Oklahoma. After a couple of years, he was tired of never being home. I was working at the courthouse so he took a job there. I have not worked for several years but he continued to work until the end of February this year. I stay home but he still has a finger in lots of pies. Oklahoma has a program called "Drug Court" which gives people one last chance when they would otherwise would be going to the pen. He serves on that committee. When he leaves there today, he said he was going to the senior citizens center to help them with a vehicle purchase. He is on that committee also. He heads the male youth program at church. Retirement does not mean relaxing to him, just more time to do what he wants. Yes, when I first discovered the Oklahoma forum, you were covering plants. You don't need that extra stress this year so it is probably best to wait awhile to plant. Oh yes, the tomato challenge! I remember a lot of that down there, but I don't know too many people that garden up here. I have some small gardens around me but they are not too serious about them. One did plant a few toms and squash but that area now has a big building on it. The people behind me are gardeners but are week-enders so they have toms, onions, lettuce, and cucumbers most years. We normally get enough rain that it takes care of itself all summer. They pick it on weekends. A young couple moved in next to them a few years ago, but he is so rude that I can't stand to talk to him. I have tried a few times, but gave it up as a lost cause. Too bad, because he has a large pile of mulched timber in his yard and I know he can never use it all. However, a few years ago at a wedding I was chatting was our former senator and he "braggingly" told me that he tries to get his first tomato by the 4th of July. The chase was on. Every year I tell his wife to go home and tell Rick we are having our first tomato. Love to beat him. I had to laugh about the MANY tomato varities. Earlier this spring, my husband said that he thought by now I would have narrowed my choices and just planted two or three kinds. I hated to let him see me plant anymore seeds. LOL Then a couple of days ago, I said that I had all of these new seeds to try but already had so many planted. He said, "Well I would plant them anyway." He knows I will never find a place to plant all of them and I think he enjoys dropping off the remainder to the senior citizens. One year I had so many weird ones, like stuffers and such. Those people grew them in their flower beds and last year wanted to know if I had more of those. I know this is weird, because this is a paste tomato, but my favorite tasting tomato is Opalka. Everyone talks about planting them to use them for paste, but I am wondering just how many take that weird looking tomato to their table. Most of the winter I buy Roma in the store, but occasionally spring for a $3 box of small grapes. I don't like Roma and have no desire to grow them, but my husband thinks we should always plant them. I told him I would plant 2 in the garden and if he wanted anything else he would have to grow them in pots. He agreed. Can you believe it, with all of those other great choices. Actually Opalka is really his favorite also. This is the only location where I have grown it so I don't know what it is like elsewhere. I plan to take better care of my garden this year, so by the end of the year I may be sorry I planted so many. During our Air Force years, I didn't always have a garden so when I did I tried to plant everything. I have narrowed that down a lot and I don't try to do that. Some things I just must have tho. In the spring I need lettuce, broccoli, and sugar snap peas, and I usually plant a few onions and potatoes. The summer garden needs cucumbers, squash, okra, a few green beans and lots and lots of tomatoes and peppers. I always think I will plant a fall garden, but I am usually worn out by then. Besides you have to start when it's hot for some of those things. Guess I am too old and too lazy for that. I do enjoy growing things tho. I have a two new beans to try this year. One is Red Noodle yard long which I understand is really from the pea family instead of bean family, but I have never grown it. The other is called Insuk Wang Kong that a man sent me from Washington. It came from his Korean wife's family and didn't have a name. She just called it a king bean because of the size. Zeedman and "our Oklahoma macmex" named it Insuk Wang Kong. Insuk is her name and the other part is king bean, I think. Anyway, I saw a picture of the bean growing and I just had to get some to try. It is a climber and has red blossoms. I can't wait to try it. It produces the biggest shelled beans I have ever seen....See MoreBlack Cherry Tomato
Comments (43)George, Ever since you discovered Lee Valley Tools, I've been thinking that if it is a publicly traded company, I should buy stock in it because you're giving them such good PR (and they deserve it). There are so few companies left that make and sell truly high-quality tools made to last a lifetime, but they are at the head of that group as far as I am concerned. I see splitting some years with Black Cherry and Sungold, but not other years. I have noticed that it is more the inconsistency in the moisture that causes splitting....like if we are swinging wildly from very dry to very wet and back again. But if we're having consistently moist weather like we did most of last summer, they don't split as much. Jay, I think it has to be more complex than just moisture alone because we do see such widely varying results....from no splitting in some places to lots of splitting in others. Perhaps it is the combination of soil and moisture? Docjoc, Oh, just wait till we start 'reviewing' our favorite producers and best-tasting varieties near the end of the season and comparing them to one another, and making our tomato 'grow lists' for next year. I think last year we didn't start talking about "next year" until August. We like to discuss it while the performance of the different varieties is fresh in our minds. Tomato addiction is a very serious disease and it is contagious. Carol, My plants looked gorgeous three days ago and now I see a disease outbreak...I think I already see Early Blight and Septoria Leaf Spot. I probably will pull the plants most affected and put in beans or purplehull peas in their spot and then try to nurse the remaining plants back to health. It only takes 15 minutes of moisture on the foliage at certain temps for diseases to start developing, so the disease outbreaks are practically guaranteed. I've made a couple of batches of Annie's Salsa (oooh, need to write a brief thread about fixing the vinegar problem) this week and will make 2 or 3 or 4 more today. Trying to pick and use everything that's ripe before they split. Also busy making strawberry syrup and blueberry syrup and the LAST batch of plums as well as starting a big batch of Habanero Gold today to finish tomorrow. When it is rainy and I can't be outside, I go into the kitchen and can stuff. It is raining here today so I'll likely can stuff until I run out of jars....and I have quite a few jars on hand. Once I am through canning, maybe I'll go online and look for seeds on sale or something. Paula, If there is a better tomato than Black Cherry, I haven't found it. They always produce well and always taste great. What more do you need? The funny thing is that I wouldn't even try them the first year or two they were out. There was a big 'fad' of "new" black varieties being introduced everywhere and a lot of them weren't any better than (or as good as) the black ones I'd already grown, so I figured the 'new' black cherry was in that group. After seeing rave reviews from people whose opinions I respected, though, I had to try them, and I've grown them every year since then. I think they were the last new introduction from Vince Sapp before his death. Dawn...See MorePlanting advise for Black Cherry & Tommy Toes
Comments (16)I like the 5 gal bucket idea for the best flexibility. Even given lots of space I could see myself always keeping many plants in 5 gal containers. I did put 2 inches of rock on the bottom with holes 1 inch from the on the side. My favorite aspect of this is they can be started in a green house and moved outside as is with no transplant. You may even able to go in ground somewhat and just use large holes which would allow you to pull the up and rotate the soil. If you are getting soil born disease, yank the container and put the soil in black plastic garbage bags and heat it up on the drive way during the summer months and rotate back into the containers with new compost. If your native soil is that bad it will not help your plants any how. I am so completely impressed by this mountain garden operation it has inspired me to do the same. It then simply occurred to me this year that I can start these in a portable green house. http://www.el34world.com/Misc/Garden/Garden2007_6.htm...See Moreloreleicomal
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