Tomatoes - Page 14

Richard · 04-07-2011, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Jananas Bananas

My tomatoes get aged chicken and horse poo, and coffee grounds. Works for me!

~JaNan

I like production and high-fruit quality. My tomato plants grow 6-foot high and wide on average with 3-4 inch diameter trunks at the base and produce 200-300 lbs of fruit over the growing season. I trim them with a hedger.

The Hollyberry Lady · 04-07-2011, 07:28 PM

I've got buds on my Micro-Tom...

: )

Jananas Bananas · 04-07-2011, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard

I like production and high-fruit quality. My tomato plants grow 6-foot high and wide on average with 3-4 inch diameter trunks at the base and produce 200-300 lbs of fruit over the growing season. I trim them with a hedger.

Quality over quantity, I always say! I personally wouldn't like a tomato that was so tough that I had to trim with a hedge trimmer! I am so glad we are all free to chose what our individual tastes are happy with. 6 feet tall by 6 feet wide!

Holy cow! Sell that puppy to Disneyland so they can drive the tour bus by it! It can compete with the tomato tree in Florida.

Sherry that MicroTom is so cute. I am anxious to see the fruit! ~J

Richard · 04-07-2011, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jananas Bananas

Quality over quantity, I always say!

The quality I get is way beyond what people achieve with an under-fed plant. In the native habitats of ancestral tomato species, the environment is rich in potash and other minerals from volcanoes and the plants are perennials that grow to tree size in a few months. I am simply providing the correct ratios and quantities of minerals since they are not present in my/our soils.

As far as the hedger goes, it is not a necessity for stem rigidity but rather for speed and spread of growth!

Scuba_Dave · 04-08-2011, 02:57 PM

I have quite a ways to go before I have my 1st tomato
I'm planing on leaving quite a few plants in the greenhouse this year
I'm also going to keep the storms on the greenhouse longer
I want to keep the temp at nite over 50 earlier in the Spring
Hoping to get some tomatoes before August this year

I have bigger pots & will be letting the seedlings grow longer in the greenhouse
Eventually I want to set up some solar water panels to heat the greenhouse
That will give me an earlier start
As it is I am about 2 months ahead of where I used to be without the greenhouse

I've started using Miracle grow potting soil the past 2 years & the seedlings seem to be doing much better
I also picked up some trays to put the seedling trays in once they start growing
I also added peat moss to the greenhouse soil this year, and to the 10x14 garden in front of the greenhouse
I did not get any cold frames setup for this year, I need more sliding glass door panels
I lost 5 panels that I intended to use over the past 2 years to snow/ice & falling limbs

I do have some fertilizer Tomatoes & will be using that for the 1st time this year
Not sure its really needed down by the stream
The tomato plants down there already grow over 8' tall

The Hollyberry Lady · 04-09-2011, 11:37 AM

Micro-tom buds are really looking good today...

: )

Jananas Bananas · 04-14-2011, 09:57 PM

The first of the Celebrity tomatoes:

~JaNan

PennyG · 04-15-2011, 06:27 AM

Nice everyone

Lagniappe · 04-15-2011, 08:19 PM

Here's my aquaponic tomatoes from last year. I had some serious allergies going on at the time, and was nervous about making a 'talkie', so I sound like a dorkus.

YouTube - aquaponic madness 2010

YouTube - Aquaponic update

momoese · 04-15-2011, 09:28 PM

So what happened Pete. did you get fruit? How about the fish, did they grow?

Lagniappe · 04-15-2011, 09:33 PM

I got a lot of fruit, then some nutrient deficiencies, then the dred tomato worms. I fed many of these[worms] to the fish. The extreme heat last year wasn't really great for oxygenating water either. On the other hand, I got more fruit from this system than from my soil based tomatoes.

The fish did grow! It took a while to train them to eat pellets, but they did (along with ANY insect that fell into the drink).

momoese · 04-16-2011, 04:39 PM

Mike posted this on FB and I thought of you guys.

Better Tomatoes Via a Fertilizer of...Human Urine? | Popular Science

Dean W. · 04-16-2011, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by momoese

Mike posted this on FB and I thought of you guys.

Better Tomatoes Via a Fertilizer of...Human Urine? | Popular Science

yuck!

Lagniappe · 04-16-2011, 07:30 PM

Urine is awesome! I was looking for ammonium nitrate to get some straw bale gardens going, and had trouble finding it. I later found out that urine has 40% nitrogen value where ammonium nitrate is around 32.

It's great for firing up compost piles and some have used it in 'peeponics' systems with good results. The latter is a little over the top imo.

Scuba_Dave · 04-17-2011, 11:19 AM

Right now I have ~137 Tomato seedlings out in the GH
More seedlings growing in the sunroom
I have about 6 different varieties, including a yellow cocktail tomato
I really need to go before the Town for a variance & extend my greenhouse
Its less then 15' from the property line

Jananas Bananas · 04-17-2011, 04:37 PM

~JaNan

Dalmatiansoap · 04-18-2011, 01:08 PM

Inground, Day 1

sunfish · 04-18-2011, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap

Inground, Day 1

What about the Rabbits.

Dean W. · 04-18-2011, 03:21 PM

Hope the dugout hill doesn't fall.

Dalmatiansoap · 04-18-2011, 03:39 PM

They dont touch this garden, one below this one with cabbage they do but somehow they avoid this one.
Its solid clay Dean, can stay so some time, I hope Im not that bad luck that it will fall now

It there for wind block purpose

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