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| At my new place I skived off the turf (that was fun),mantis-tilled a couple of rows with composted (bagged) cow manure, lime and a normal dose of 10-10-10 and my secret ingredient..pulverized peanut shells.
Plopped in some Rudgers, caged them and not a speck of fertilizer since. How did these plants grow to 5' tall? And, besides pinching out the suckers, I really need to selectively prune these monsters. They're blocking sun from the eggplants and peppers.
Peppers aren't setting fruit for lack of enough full sun and while they and eggplants are blossoming, nothing is setting. I'm inclined to give up on the peppers until the Rudgers (determinate) set their fruit and ripen. Perhaps then I can pull the Rudgers from shading the other veggies. I'd like to believe I have this amazing soil but I really don't. It's clay but unbelieveably well draining so I suspect it lies over the grey water cesspool which is probably settled in gravel.(septic is in a whole nother part of the yard)
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- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (johnbuettner@hotmail.com) on Mon, Jun 4, 12 at 9:41
| My tomatoes always grow taller than any cage I've ever seen. I use 6 ft "t"-posts and twine instead. This year I swear I am gonna prune them because they always become this giant macrame knot of vine by July and I can't get to all the fruit without a machete. I only fertilize if I see yellowing leaves or some other weakness in the plants and that has rarely happened. At my old yard the tomatoes and peppers would be head high by this time of year and it was because they were stretching for the sun (that garden only got 6 hours of strong sunlight in mid June, so I wouldn't call it a full sun spot). |
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