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Any hope for these sick plants?
Posted by garystpaul(4)
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mnwsgal(Hennepin, MN 4)Updated Gary, I start my tomatoes in Pro Mix and move them to MG without the water crystals as it has fertilizer so don't have to fertilize them by hand and they don't dry out as quickly as the Pro Mix ones. One year I used the MG with wa...
cherry tomatoes tase very bitter
Posted by Inessa L
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wormgirl_8a_WA(z8 WA)Updated I have heard the first tomatos of the season can be not the best tasting ones?
Need help with Tomato - Brown Spots, Curled Leaves, Indoor Garden
Posted by Dan Hansen
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PupillaCharites(FL 9a)Updated Dan, I've used a few different mixes in containers and I like the sound of your sea soil. The problem with containers is that the system is really too small to set up a true organic soil system in them. People do all sorts of thin...
Florida Weave Questions
Posted by piltdown
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PupillaCharites(FL 9a)Updated You could rig something up with pegs (turn or fixed for making loops) like this if you are on your own and want a cool, simple system: Violin tuning If it works you might have the world's first musical row of tomatoes to add to th...
the post your tomato growing list thread.
Posted by bakersville
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Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1Updated A vantage thread... Interesting how some old popular ones are still around this season after SEVEN (7) years. They must have have passed the test of time and the test of TASTES. . But , as it is always the case the gardeners ge...
Hardening off after pause
Posted by tigrikt (Central NJ)(6B)
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tigrikt (Central NJ)(6B)Updated Ok. Thanks. Will do the full process
Brandy Boy Contest -2015
Posted by hudson___wy(3)
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hudson___wy(3)Updated Hi Hoosier - yes - there is a part 2 now for this thread. To answer your question - please post what ever information you would like to share on this thread (and additional parts) about your experiences - good or bad - growing Br...
Critique Varieties please for 2015
Posted by hoosier318
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fireduck(10a)Updated hi H...My garden has been planted for 6 weeks now. By far the most aggressive, healthiest, and most fruit is my Big Beef. I think my Brandy Boy is a little ahead of the other 12 varieties. I see that your weather has really warmed...
It's tomato planting season
Posted by Peter (6b SE NY)
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Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1Updated Happy Plant Out, Peter. That forecast is good enough to plant out everything, including eggplants and peppers. Her is our weather outlook. But I started planting out (tomatoes) from 4-8-18 on and was done 90% by 4-20-17. During th...
The Color Of Tomato
Posted by Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1
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Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1Updated O ! I always wanted to grow Old German. But my seed supplier did not carry it. Anyway, I am growing Big Rainbow with similar color pattern. Nate, is Jubilee same as "golden Jubilee" ?. I think I have grown that one many ...
Where to get multi color tomato plants in Iowa?
Posted by J M (zone 5a)
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J M (zone 5a)Updated Found some Green Zebra's and a 4 pack of Cherokee purples yesterday! Looks like my Mr. Stripey is pulling through the freeze.
Fish fertilizer
Posted by Vince (8) Kemper
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daniel_nyc(7a)Updated I read somewhere that Neptune's Harvest (2-3-1) is better than Alaska (5-1-1). I use Big Bloom (FoxFarm) [0.01-0.3-0.7] and it works for me.
HELP , tomatoe seedling looking bad , (pics )
Posted by zak
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zakUpdated been useing filtered watter zero water the type you get in those big bottles for drinking stands like culligan water ,,, i decided to stop useing that, and ive used some rain water from my barrel outside for 1 watering so far ,,,...
Hahms Gelbe Topftomate
Posted by Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1
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Vince (8) KemperUpdated My dad was a German Special Forces paratrooper in WW 2. He's 92 and could probably still kick my ass, and he wants some tomatoes
Where is Carolyn?
Posted by Deeby
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Martha HenricksonUpdated glad you are doing better. My gall bladder was taken out when I was 30..so thats a long time ago.....I think I started posting here about 17 years ago, when we first moved out of the city.. I learned everything about growing toma...
tomato plants growing too fast
Posted by Martha Henrickson
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Martha HenricksonUpdated I just reported some back into the same pots, but removed some of the root and added more soil less mix so they are planted deeper..they look good, thought they might panic..Its getting so warm out so fast maybe can plant them out...
Kind of scary looking disease
Posted by jenniedhs_7b_nc
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jenniedhs_7b_ncUpdated That's the plan Sey. Thanks.
Did you start EARLIER (than usual) this year ?
Posted by daniel_nyc(7a)
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Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1Updated Daniel, That is a nice and practical mobile plant cart. BTW: when are you going to get plants and plant out ? How is your LI weather theses days ? Ours is fine. Highs getting to low 70s. But the lows are persistently in mid 40s an...
Slow them down!!
Posted by jbann23(6 RI)
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Seysonn_ 7b-WA/HZ1Updated Ibann ... I am sure you meant March 30th. I think that Black cherry has close to normal growth in 4 weeks. But definitely Big Beef has grown out of ordinary. I have an unknown variety ( came out of dwarf seeds pack ) that is almos...
My Druzba
Posted by jwr6404(8B Wa)
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated OK, so you do not want a link to Tania's page for it, but if you looked you'd find that I was the first to introduce it to the US, seeds to me from Norbert in France back in 1992. You'll also note that I I was the first to answer...
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