Tomato & onion sandwiches

[pastorp]

I really like tomato & onion sandwiches. Tomatoes are really expensive in Alaska bush villages. So I've been tinking about raising my own. Can I just plant seeds in a bucket like the upside down tomatoe kits I see on TV. What to use for soil? Just a bag of potting, will that work? Do you need furtalizer or just water them?

I'm really dumb when it comes to gardening. We usually just gather the wild berries etc. that we have here.

Regards

[hunt-m-up]

I'd rather make Po'Boy sandwiches with all that shellfish you were talking about...

For tomatoes, start them in potting soil, plant 2X as many as you need, then thin them out to the best looking plants. You could grow them about one or two plants per bucket. Fertilizer, water as with any plant. Generally they need support as they grow taller, like tieing them to a stake or wire cage.

[DalesCarpentry]

Yea I am sure you can plant them upside down in a bucket. I have been looking into it for over a week now. I live in Pa and looks like I am going to have well over 60 tomato probably closer to 100 seeing as I have at least 60 sprouted now. I will give many away to the neighbors. They won't have to buy them this year. I am going to plant Beef Steak, Roma and Cherry tomatoes in the garden for sure. I am going to do the upside down tomato thing (on my back deck) with one Beef Steak, Cherry and a cucumber plant to see how it goes. If you go to Utube and search for vegetable garden you will see how you can grow tomatoes indoors. I wanted to grow some veggies indoors this past winter but by the time I thought of it the seeds were sold out about everywhere. You can grow tomatoes and peppers indoors with out a problem. Dale

[gypsyman]

A friend of mine, who unfortunatly passed away last Dec., use to keep a 5 gallon bucket with a couple tomatoe plants in it. Put it on a little cart, so he could wheel it out of his garage when the air warmed up during the day,and pulled it back in at night. After the last chance for a frost around here,which is around the first of May,he'ld leave it outside. Be the first one to have BLT's.  gypsyman

[Flash]

I really like tomato & onion sandwiches. Tomatoes are really expensive in Alaska bush villages. So I've been tinking about raising my own. Can I just plant seeds in a bucket like the upside down tomatoe kits I see on TV. What to use for soil? Just a bag of potting, will that work? Do you need furtalizer or just water them?

I'm really dumb when it comes to gardening. We usually just gather the wild berries etc. that we have here.

Regards

Use Miracle Gro granuals to mix up some food for them. Potting soil gets depleated quickly so never use it more than one season. There will be enough nutrients to grow something the second time around but not not to a healthy state.

[Blue Duck]

Don't overlook a Onion and Cuccumber sandwich.   A nice sweet onion and a thick slice of cuc is hard to beat.....

[Oldshooter]

pastorp,

My wife plants all our garden vegetables in pots from 5 - 15 gallon size. She keeps them on the deck! We have acreage but she finds the pots easier to maintain and less pests.
We use potting soil enriched with chicken compost. She also uses the miracle grow granules that you sprinkle on top and as you water you get plant food dissolved slowly.

I like my tomatoes sliced thick and eaten with salt and pepper, but a good samich is hard to beat also!

[Ranger J]

There is nothing wrong with a tomato and onion sandwich that a half dozen slices of fried bacon can't fix.   I usually don't put the tomatoes out until about the first of may.  They don't seem to really do good until the ground gets good and warm.

RJ

[GRIMJIM]

There is nothing wrong with a tomato and onion sandwich that a half dozen slices of fried bacon can't fix.  
RJ

I think you've hit on something here. BLOT, bacon, lettuce, onion and tomato sandwiches. I'm gonna try it. I love a good BLT. I bet it's even better with onions on it.

[pastorp]

That bacon added to the sandwich sounds good. You guys are making me hungry Think I'll go bake some of my "pastors oatmeal cookies" Regards

[mrbigtexan]

you can cut plastic barrels in half and put a cage around them and in the fall when it starts to get cool, wrap them with saran wrap around the cage. you will be able to see the ripened tomatoes, cut a slit just big enough to get your hand in to pick and you will get tomatoes after everyone else's plants die.

[Oldshooter]

you can cut plastic barrels in half and put a cage around them and in the fall when it starts to get cool, wrap them with saran wrap around the cage. you will be able to see the ripened tomatoes, cut a slit just big enough to get your hand in to pick and you will get tomatoes after everyone else's plants die.

Good Idea !