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| TEAM_PING_AMORONE |
 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:49 am |
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strohsbro2 wrote: Nice selection there Chris.
I've just started to cut broccoli. Yum.
Thanks! Every plant has something growing on it right now, so I hope by this week's end, I will be picking the first of this year's crop! I think my eggplant is ready now. Those Japaneese eggplants are so much better than the larger ones. They are sweeter and nicer. I saw some "white eggplant" this year, but didn't plant it. Maybe next time. |
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| strohsbro2 |
| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:52 am |
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| Eggplant is great. Wish I had some ready. It'll be awhile. I've never seen the white ones though. |
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| Daemonspawn |
| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:39 pm |
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| Alot of insects don't like Marigolds.I use them every year and never have problems with bugs.Just plant one near every tomato plant and you should be ok. |
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| fatoldskater |
| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:24 am |
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I've got purple plum tomatoes going, another one called mortgage lifters, and a super mutant one called super bush. Stoked. I've had fairly decent luck wit ha product made by Safer called insecticidal soap, its supposedly safe up to the day of harvest. The only drawback is it seem you have to use it once a week or so. there are also other products that use cinnamon oil, or there are home recipes that use hot peppers and onions to repel bugs. There is also Neem oil that you can spray on or put in your water. I havent tried it, but alot of organic weed farmers swear by it.
thats about all I know. I'll post up some pics when mine get bigger. Right now I'm just starting to getlittle green tomatoes.
Oh and you might want to fertilize pretty regularly, when you use pots the plants take all the nutrients from the dirt pretty quickly.
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| kirksucks |
| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:05 am |
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when i was in JR High me and my friend found a full-on marijuana plant in my aunt and uncles back yard.
My aunt tried to tell us it was a tomato plant. |
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| jbirk |
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:46 pm |
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Well so far so good...I out grew the pots and they are in the ground now. Im gonna try several techniques for critter control. I gave my neighbor three of my plants when I started, she is a stay at home green thumb type. Mine are like 2-3 feet tall and hers are at least five feet tall WTF!!!
Thanks for all the valuable tips and happy growing  |
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| Skid Vicious |
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:12 pm |
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Living in Texas now things are a little different than growing in SoCal; haven't had any luck with heirloom tomatoes here. They just don't do well in the heat, humidity, and the bugs will carry you off if you're not careful. Plus I've had a lot of trouble with birds too, although a bud on another forum told me what he does to keep the birds off his tomatoes and it works even better than trying to tent/cage them.
Just get some toy rubber snakes from Wal Mart and drape them over the tomato cages, and move them around every couple of days. No more problems with birds.
There are some mild soap solutions that you can use to keep some of the less destructive pests away, Safer Soap is a good non-toxic pesticide. Some of the other stuff I've tried is expensive and doesn't seem to do much.
That is the rub with heirlooms, they just don't have the disease/stress/pest resistance that thy hybrids have. I've tried for two year/4 growing seasons and they don't do shit for me here in SE Texas. The "Boy" hybrids (Best Boy, Better Boy) do pretty well, along with Beefsteaks. Nothing like a nice Brandywine or Amish Paste, but still better than anything bought in a store.
Try the rubber snake trick though for birds, it works so well and is so much easier than anything else I tried I was laughing. |
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| oldskateboards |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:48 pm |
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| ive got some potatoe leaf brandywine tomatoes growing there the first heirloom ive grown and they are kickin ass and taking names and are bigger than the beefsteaks planted next to them. they are claimed to be the best slicing tomatoe there is...i cant fuckin wait to have me sum tomatoe samich. |
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| mkelty |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:31 pm |
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Organic Pest control?
Chickens for the Yellowjackets (Bonus: Fertilizer and Eggs)
Ducks for the Slugs and Snails (Bonus: Eggs)
Add a Goose for the Alarm system and you're set....  |
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| fatoldskater |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:40 pm |
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| Just picked my first ripe purple plum tomato, and it had a big ass hole in it with a spider living in it. Little bastards! |
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