Veggie Tales - September 2020
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Comments (197)Hello, all, it rained 5 inches here on Friday and my back yard looked like a lake. I have all my plants in containers on top of cement squares and two or three bricks and some had water on the sides of the containers. I have just about given up on the plants that grew over the summer especially the ones that were 10 feet tall (Bolsenos might have been even taller)-the cherry-grape-currant strains are still producing hundreds of tomatoes-about 40 to 50 ripe a day. I have about 100 tomato plants that are about a month and a week old that I am going to transplant in the next two days (trying to dodge another big rain). It doesn't get cold here anymore until about the middle of December (if then) so I should be okay-last year I just moved them inside when it got cold and had fresh tomatoes most of the winter. I will post some pictures of the cherry tomatoes and some of the rest this week....See MoreVeggie Tales - September 2019
Comments (442)Richard, Great news on the rain and slightly lower temps. Good luck on the Spokane opportunity. Keep us posted. Weather would be much more friendly in Spokane. I discovered this mess in my melon patch yesterday. It appears I had a hungry visitor in the garden overnight. In other sad news, I saw a mouse in my compost bin yesterday too. I don’t believe the mouse did the damage to the melon. The bites thrown aside behind the ‘loupe are too big....See MoreVeggie Tales - February 2020
Comments (633)Jack - If I had a local source of seed potato I'd love trying different varieties from year to year. I think I invested 40 some dollars in seed potato last year, so I'm seeing this years free seeds as evening out the cost. I think I'd try Burbank Russet this year from a local source. Moose Tubers is Fedco. I ordered my apple, pear, and cherry rootstocks from them and a few packs of seeds. The seed potato I got last year was from Maine Potato Lady. Cindy - When I moved here I hauled two pickup loads of the topsoil from my old garden. I sold that land to a developer and he was excavating the house 19 feet deep...under the house for a street. When I was loading the topsoil the cliff was there maybe 10 feet from the house. I can't remember if I backhauled the clay??? That gave me about 5x8'feet of nice soil. Since then it's been a lot of amendment like you've done including the horse manure with the woodchip bedding. Can't believe it but those chips were gone the following year. I've never added a bit of bagged fertilizer. The only thing I grow that shows the effect of PH is tomatoes. They get blossom end rot. If I see it on early tomatoes I scatter some lime and the later tomatoes are fine. I've never done a soil test...yet. I think I could use one. I just wing it. I always add something to the soil, some years just uncomposted leafs and kitchen scraps....See MoreVeggie Tales - November 2020
Comments (211)Richard, that sounds cold for your area. Guess you will get your exercise the next few days. Yesterday I did a final turning of compost in my makeshift bin at my community plot. It is breaking down well. I hope the latest aeration and nutrient additions will get most of it broken down by spring. That is when I plan to work with it next and hopefully have good compost to use. If nothing else, I am glad I could put lots of plant wastes into my makeshift bin instead of the trash cans people were told to use....not for composting but for general trash pick up. I don't like to see nutrients go to the landfill. I'd rather give up a corner's worth of growing space and do some composting....See Moreitsmce (zone 6b, Kansas)
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