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lighter:
I finally broke down and ordered some fabric pots for the tomatoes. There will be (5) 20gallon pots and (5) 15 gallon pots, so the 8 tomato plants and 4 watermelon plants will fill them up. My neighbor has full sun all day long next to his house, which is why I'm doing the fabric pots. I don't want to till up his yard.
Pots should be here Wednesday.
I thought about making cool birdbaths today. Instead of working on them, I worked on limbing up trees and cutting suckers off. I'm exhausted and fatigued. Will sleep well tonight and dream of beautiful bird baths to come: )
Lighter
lighter:
I got the tomato plants out of the too shady garden and INTO the fabric pots this weekend.
There was a large bag of Pete Moss, and a big block of Coconut Coir to hydrate and mix in with regular potting soil and fertilizer. THIS job was much harder and more difficult, not to mention time-consuming, than I thought it would be.
At the end of it I was fatigued, and limping.... something in my left hip was super unhappy.... ANNNND 4 mixes later, I didn't have enough mix to fill all 10 pots..... 2 twenty gallon pots were left empty. I have everything planted I needed to pot. 7 tomatoes and 4 watermelon plants. There are 3 things planted together in two 20 gallon pots.
Everything but the tallest tomato plant looks pretty good... everything plumping back up and appearing healthy. The top of that one tomato plant hasn't plumped, though the rest of it looks great. How does that happen, do'ya think? Nothing appears broken or badly bent, btw.
We planted peppers, onions, squashes, a cabbage, and more tomato plants in the nearby fenced in garden located right next to where I moved my tomato plants.
Apparently we can grow lettuces, beans and things that grow in the ground in my shadier garden area. My beans are looking great. I'll have beautiful snow pea greens for sauteeing soon.
Lighter
Meh:
Sounds lovely in spite of the limping. I've got four very sad looking tomato plants in a box, I think they've been transplanted too many times and it's been cold here so far. Oh well.
I've had tomato seeds come up on their own in the past (no transplanting), when they want to grow they find a way to do it. The soil they were in didn't look to great but they loved it. Sort of a dry almost clay-ish looking dusty soil.
There is some advice to snip the first flowers off a tomato, then there is advice to let the first flowers be as they are. I'm not sure what is right or wrong, it would take some sort of controlled experiment I think. In the end it's probably just a matter of HEAT and light that is so important.
Hopalong:
I have this funny red mulch plastic someone gave me, that's perforated with tiny holes to let water through. Apparently tomato plants are crazy about red spectrum light, and it increases yield 20-30 percent. My tomatoes are growing like crazy with it so this must be true!
G if you think of it, please let me know what you've found out about flower-pinching. Or not pinching.
Thanks,
Hops
lighter:
I pinched the first flowers on my peppers and tomato plants.... so the energy could go to forming stronger roots.
About the red spectrum light and mulch with holes in it..... I'd like to see some info on that mulch. Fascinating, stuff.
::nod::.
A lady gave me a really amazing old shabby chic light fixture, then threw in a 2 foot tall potato plant in a green grow bag. That was an amazing day yesterday, yup yup yup. I think I'll put the light in the she shed when I get to that project; )
Lighter
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