Author Topic: Garden Progress (Read 892 times)

jvs · « **on:** April 26, 2005, 11:34:39 PM »

How far along is your Gardening?

Southern residents should be well established while Northern residents should be deciding what goes where.

WD45 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2005, 07:39:24 AM »

Well, as wet as it has been around here I may be better off building a boat dock over mine.

Only thing I have been able to get out is some lettuce, greens , radishes and cabbage... which I had to throw life jackets to :shock:

longwinters · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2005, 04:28:27 PM »

GARDEN :eek: It is still snowing up here. It is enough to make a grown man cry.

Long

jvs · « **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2005, 01:48:59 AM »

Everything east of Iowa and north of West Virginia into New England has been getting hit by one Canadian Low after another for over a year and a half now. There was snow out of this last one in Michigan and parts of Ohio, Pa and W Va, Va, NC and New England. That same storm is circling around and will probably produce Part II between now and Sunday.

South of that, things look good for puttsing around outside. Todays weather sees 95 for parts of Texas. The Southern and Western States look good. Plots there should be well on their way.

We had a couple of days up in the 80's but then another Low dropped out of Canada and made everyting below seasonal again. One week I'm wearing t-shirts and shorts, the next week I'm in a Flannel shirt and a coat. I haven't needed the Snow Shovel again though.

My Berry plants don't know what to do either.

flatlander · « **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2005, 02:19:44 AM »

I've got everything in the ground and apple trees and raspberries look like they are going to be producing a decent crop. Not bad for only being year 2 for them both. Corn is already up along with some radishes, and a few sunflowers. Everything else is still working its way up. We finally got some rain this week, and our temperatures are running around 60 pretty consistantly. More rain tomorrow, so things are looking good right now.

Highbrass · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2005, 05:52:07 PM »

My tomatoes are in and my pepper plants are in.All are doing well in spite of a late frost earlier last week.My tomatoes are blooming as well as the pepper plants(9 hot bannana peppers and 6 cayene :devil2: peppers).

longwinters · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2005, 05:28:26 AM »

Well, I just planted my tomatoe plants this weekend. Used a new, to me, method of watering/fertilizing mentioned by one of the people on this forum. Using the 2 liter pop bottles to get the good stuff down to the roots. I also planted my plants about 65% deep in the soil. Hope to get stronger plants and more tomatoes with the larger root base.

Long

jvs · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2005, 09:46:58 AM »

I always planted each of my Tomato's in a sideways 'L' shape about two inches below ground, with only the tops sticking out of the ground. I normally strip all of the side leaves off the stem and leave only the last two inches of the stem and top leaves exposed. The root system shoots off the buried stem and gives you twice or three times as much root early in the game. This plan does not work for all other veggies but it works nicely for Tomato's.

Your other question asked about what makes Tomato's ripe. I always heard the warm or hot nights make them ripen faster on the vine. Over the years I also heard that the Tomato's you buy in a Supermarket are picked green and gassed with Nitrogen Gas to speed ripening. I know of no other way of speeding things up on the vine in the yard. Of course, the more mature the plant, the quicker you get Tomato's. Some are 60 day, some are 65 day and some are 70 or more days, which means from the time of planting seeds until you get produce. Which make me think that time is the best ripener without gassing them.