anonomoose
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Sweet one hundreds....best little tomato available. Crack like crazy if you get too much rain, but a tarp over them before rain will keep them sweet and uncracked.
If you use boxes make sure NOT to use womanized lumber....cedar is the best. You can grow a bunch of stuff in a small spot.
And NO you can't get the great varieties of tomatoes at walmart...those are strickly market stuff and your missing the flavor. Picked before they get ripe and well....who is that desperate...surely not me. I hate store tomatoes...but that is what happens when you are used to handing picking fully ripened fruit by the handfuls.
Bell peppers are the best...California wonder is preferred. I plant orange, yellow green, and puple...just for fun.
Don't forget the pole beans....yellow beans are delicately flavored too. Easy to grow and can grow along the edge of the boxes up strings.
Straight eight cukes are best for flavor if you can water them each day...we have a blight thing going on cukes right now...hard to get more than one harvest before the vines get attacked by cucumber beetle...or some wilt thing.
If your gunna fool with strawberries...get real...get a box and do it right...forget about the everbearing varieties unless you just want a few now and again. June bearing are the best...smaller tastes better...nothing like strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream...it is theeeeee best desert ever invented. REal shortcake too...none of the store bought crap.
You guys with watering problems need to save your liter pop bottles...fill them with water...stick them upside down next to the plants...with the neck end stuck in the soil...it slowly releases the water and waters the plant all day long. Works like a charm.
If you don't like to plant seeds inside to start them....put seeds under a plank in loose soil in the fall.....then lift the plank after the last frost...seeds start nicely and are already planted.
Plant a few spuds too....nice white potatoes are easy to grow and new don't even need to be peeled. Plant after the 25 of june...and you won't have a potato bug either....no spraying and as organic as they can get.
Thinning your tomatoe plants...particularly if you use fertilizer...is a good idea to get bigger and healthier plants. Also when the plants are growing good and strong....grab a few of the new leaf branches and rub them up in the palm of your hand...enough to get green in your skin...this give the plant natural insect protection (as if attacked by insects) and will ward off all but the worst of them.
There is nothing more theraputic than gardening....and you get to eat a bunch of really good stuff that wasn't picked and packed by folks who don't speak english...or bother to wash their hands.
If you use boxes make sure NOT to use womanized lumber....cedar is the best. You can grow a bunch of stuff in a small spot.
And NO you can't get the great varieties of tomatoes at walmart...those are strickly market stuff and your missing the flavor. Picked before they get ripe and well....who is that desperate...surely not me. I hate store tomatoes...but that is what happens when you are used to handing picking fully ripened fruit by the handfuls.
Bell peppers are the best...California wonder is preferred. I plant orange, yellow green, and puple...just for fun.
Don't forget the pole beans....yellow beans are delicately flavored too. Easy to grow and can grow along the edge of the boxes up strings.
Straight eight cukes are best for flavor if you can water them each day...we have a blight thing going on cukes right now...hard to get more than one harvest before the vines get attacked by cucumber beetle...or some wilt thing.
If your gunna fool with strawberries...get real...get a box and do it right...forget about the everbearing varieties unless you just want a few now and again. June bearing are the best...smaller tastes better...nothing like strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream...it is theeeeee best desert ever invented. REal shortcake too...none of the store bought crap.
You guys with watering problems need to save your liter pop bottles...fill them with water...stick them upside down next to the plants...with the neck end stuck in the soil...it slowly releases the water and waters the plant all day long. Works like a charm.
If you don't like to plant seeds inside to start them....put seeds under a plank in loose soil in the fall.....then lift the plank after the last frost...seeds start nicely and are already planted.
Plant a few spuds too....nice white potatoes are easy to grow and new don't even need to be peeled. Plant after the 25 of june...and you won't have a potato bug either....no spraying and as organic as they can get.
Thinning your tomatoe plants...particularly if you use fertilizer...is a good idea to get bigger and healthier plants. Also when the plants are growing good and strong....grab a few of the new leaf branches and rub them up in the palm of your hand...enough to get green in your skin...this give the plant natural insect protection (as if attacked by insects) and will ward off all but the worst of them.
There is nothing more theraputic than gardening....and you get to eat a bunch of really good stuff that wasn't picked and packed by folks who don't speak english...or bother to wash their hands.
Not sure if they will produce anything this year?
