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Post by G&T on Jun 6, 2013 11:33:39 GMT -5
Do you have to stake or cage tomatoes or can you just let them go? I realize if they snap that's not good but I'm talking more like you just let them grow to the side from the get go. It's best to get them upright if you can, but a glob of tomato plants on the ground will produce. When dirt gets on tomato leaves and fosters disease. I recommend weed matting and grass clipping mulch under them. I use 5' tall 2' diameter cages and wrap them in plastic in the early spring to act like a green house. Basically a plant setup you can forget about until harvest assuming you prepared your soil with a good ph and fertilizer for the year. About 5" down scratch in 1/4 lb of lime per plant. Fill to even with the surface and male a 2" trench in a 12" diameter circle around the plant and pour in 1/2 lb of dry fertilizer, cover trough. Cover with weed matting, plant tomato, add cage. Attachments:
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 6, 2013 11:42:00 GMT -5
I cage them and even have to tie them AND stake them. They get too tall to support themselves with fruit.
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Post by G&T on Jun 6, 2013 11:44:35 GMT -5
The deeper you plant the tomato the better. Cut off ALL branches and leaves except for the very top set and plant all the way to that top set of leaves, even if you have to lay the plant sort of sideways in a trough. It will root all along the stem, one year a friend and I buried about two feet of a cherry tomato plant and it got to 17 feet high, we had to add two more cages on and guide wires. I have the pic somewhere. Also dip your blade in rubbing alcohol before cutting on plants too.
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Post by G&T on Jun 6, 2013 11:47:36 GMT -5
I cage them and even have to tie them AND stake them. They get too tall to support themselves with fruit. Yeah I stake my cages in place with a small sledge and steel stake too, tie the stake to the cage with "bread tie" wire. You can get rolls of that at the garden center, great stuff for a garden.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 7, 2013 6:56:46 GMT -5
I cage them and even have to tie them AND stake them. They get too tall to support themselves with fruit. Yeah I stake my cages in place with a small sledge and steel stake too, tie the stake to the cage with "bread tie" wire. You can get rolls of that at the garden center, great stuff for a garden. How true it is. Have a roll in the garage. It holds together everything from my fence to the posts to the tomatoes to the stake.
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Post by G&T on Jun 7, 2013 9:17:52 GMT -5
Just took the end of a roll of remesh to the recycling center, thing probably still weighed 150lbs after making 5 tomato cages.
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Post by TommyDee on Jun 7, 2013 9:51:12 GMT -5
Jesus, your new avatar is like cleavage. I can't look away.
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Post by G&T on Jun 7, 2013 10:23:10 GMT -5
I found this meat store in Milwaukee only about 20 minutes away that is like meat mecca. Whole chickens $2 lb, perfectly trimmed baby back ribs for $3 lb, steaks, chops, sausages, you name it. I dropped $150 like a kid in a candy store the other day. They do package specials too. www.bunzels.com/
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Post by G&T on Jun 7, 2013 10:27:51 GMT -5
This is a decent buy just over $11 lb.
#5 - Steak Deal - $79.99
2 - 14 oz T-Bone Steaks 2 - 6 oz Tenderloin Steaks 2 lb Sirloin Steak 2 - 12 oz NY Strips 2 - 12 oz Ribeyes
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 7, 2013 10:51:53 GMT -5
This one looks interesting.
#4 - Barbeque - $48.99
2 Whole Chickens 4 lbs Country Ribs 2 - 8 oz Tenderloin Fillets 2 lbs Brats or Italian Sausage 3 lb pkg. of 1/3lb Ground Chuck Patties
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Post by G&T on Jun 11, 2013 8:05:10 GMT -5
Finally feeling good enough to work outside without killing myself so I've been tweaking the property, trimming trees, fertilizing trees, all kinds of crap, looks pretty good right now. Which just gets me pissed off to see the fucking shithole next door. African-American family moved in next door a few years back, nice enough people but apparently they don't like white people since they never come out of the house and they blackened all of their windows from the inside right after they moved in. They also don't care much for landscaping, cutting the grass, or moving the abandoned car that dropped all of its oil on their driveway two years ago. One neighbor thinks they're about to be foreclosed on so that would be nice, hopefully they'll move somewhere where people don't give a flying fuck about anything and they'll fit right in. Went to the village to get the car moved yesterday, next will be the subdivision board to force them to hire a landscaper or do it themselves.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 21, 2013 17:04:32 GMT -5
Just look at those tomato plant's go. Did some weeding with my garden tiller today to clean things up and breakup the soil before I watered. This will only be the 2nd time I've had to water so far this year. Mother Nature has been taking care of the liquid part so far. I can just feel the lycopene racing through my system! Attachments:
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 21:33:35 GMT -5
These early Walla Walla onions went great with my leftover pizza. Attachments:
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 21:47:49 GMT -5
Had to buy some pulverized lime yesterday as I noticed my PH had gone down.
I was getting tomato blight (yellow leaves w/ black spots on the bottom of a couple plants. It's been real wet with balmy hot temperatures lately, perfect setting.
So I got my PH back and hopefully killed off the fungus.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 21:50:07 GMT -5
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Post by TommyDee on Jun 27, 2013 21:58:26 GMT -5
Jesus, you measure shit? I just let that shit go and hope.
My garden is insane right now. Never seen it this big before July.
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Post by G&T on Jun 27, 2013 22:02:55 GMT -5
These early Walla Walla onions went great with my leftover pizza. i had some nice spring garlic this year that was killer.
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Post by G&T on Jun 27, 2013 22:05:11 GMT -5
Had to buy some pulverized lime yesterday as I noticed my PH had gone down. I was getting tomato blight (yellow leaves w/ black spots on the bottom of a couple plants. It's been real wet with balmy hot temperatures lately, perfect setting. So I got my PH back and hopefully killed off the fungus. Rake or bag your grass clippings and mulch the shit out of them. The bacteria from the dirt is what causes the problems.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 22:08:29 GMT -5
I was getting blight again. I was forced to learn. Two years ago I lost my plants to that shit. From now on I will condition the soil each year w/ lime before I plant. Too much work to lose everything. Your soil is probably different than mine Tommy. It differs from garden to garden.
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Post by G&T on Jun 27, 2013 22:15:25 GMT -5
Used some fresh basil and parsley off the Earthboxes today, those things are really kicking ass.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 22:15:55 GMT -5
Had to buy some pulverized lime yesterday as I noticed my PH had gone down. I was getting tomato blight (yellow leaves w/ black spots on the bottom of a couple plants. It's been real wet with balmy hot temperatures lately, perfect setting. So I got my PH back and hopefully killed off the fungus. Rake or bag your grass clippings and mulch the shit out of them. The bacteria from the dirt is what causes the problems. I did that from your suggestion before and I liked it a lot (especially the cucumbers lying on a nice bed) but I couldn't see the soil. I like to see the need for water and and have a judge of it from sight. That's why I moved away. Might move back. As a side note.. I planted a zucchini plant inside a little rock garden I have and I threw the grass clippings all around it last weekend. It's doing great. I'll post a pic tomorrow.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 22:17:17 GMT -5
Used some fresh basil and parsley off the Earthboxes today, those things are really kicking ass. Need to get some basil and mozzarella for my tomatoes this year.
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Post by BrownstotheBone on Jun 27, 2013 22:19:50 GMT -5
Maybe I'll do like a Christmas tree thing around the base with clippings.
Hey!
Edit: and cut the low hanging suckers off the bottom so there's no contact with the ground.
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Post by TommyDee on Jun 27, 2013 22:27:21 GMT -5
My soil sucked BttB. I dug a lot of it out and put new stuff in before I put the plants in. It was very sandy. So I replaced it with top soil w/ fertilizer and plant feed.
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