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winner08:
Greetings Kat:
I see where you said you want to grow you own toms. I must tell you what happen to me a few yrs. back. I planted around 12 tom plants. Some little boys, some tall boys, some creole and about 4 cherry toms. Well the reg. toms grew fine and produce a descent v=batch of toms. But the cherry toms. produce hundreds and hundreds of little bitty cherry toms. I had so many I just could not give them away fast enough. It took quite awhile for them to start producing. I thought my cherry tom plants were no good. Then ,like I said BAM!! all 4 plants started producing at one time. When a batch would produce I would have a hundred or so (all 4 plants), then once I picked them it would take a couple of weeks and BAM!! all 4 would produce at one time. This happen all through the summer. I got so tired of toms and cherry toms. Its funny now that I think about it, but at the time it was hardly funny. So be carefull on which kinds of toms you plant. make sure you read up on how many toms one plant will produce through the summer. Anyway, good luck and good gardening.
Darren
Roy Martin:
Mind if I give a little gardening advice? Its too late now but this coming fall after all the leafs are down,till your garden in, add 6-12 inches of leafs over the entire garden. Spray all of the leafs with phosphoric acid,cover with black plastic until February or until your ready to plant.Remove plastic, add blood meal and bone meal and dried molasses, till it all in good and you will have super thriving soil that will grow anything.
The acid speeds up the decomposing of the leaves and increases phosphorus, it will also lower pH slightly.Do a pH test to be sure. Most people ignore pH testing.Its very important I assure you.
I have done many side by side studies and have found that high phosphorus will give you smaller plants but larger yields. High nitrogen will give larger plants with more foliage but less yield.
Follow the instructions above and you will be quite pleased.
Roy
indianabob:
Gardeners,
Now here is a practical opportunity to learn what God has planned for our future.
Growing vegies is a great way to learn and to benefit.
The extra work is all worth while and the fruit is our reward.
Bob
Roy Martin:
Mulching is indeed very good but avoid the hard wood mulches for vegetable gardens. Definitely do not use pine or cedar, they are over acidic. Have you ever noticed that almost nothing will grow under cedar or pine trees? Most hardwood mulches are bagged too soon. Open a bag and see how hot it is in the middle. This stuff is Ok for shrubs. Im a landscaper and see other landscapers put this stuff on pansies and other young flowers but the outcome is too obvious to me.
Cotton bur compost is good for mulching but not straight out of the bag. Empty it out on a grass free area and let it set a few weeks or a month with some watering. Some of my customers have listened to me and let me remove all of the existing h/w mulches and now their gardens are beautiful. It took a season to see the difference but worth the wait.
There is much to be said about mulching but I kept it short.
Roy
Kat:
Hi Roy,
Thanks for all the advice. I'm already getting started this year and the mulch info is greatly appreciated. Not sure what I will be able to find to mulch with, but at least now I know what to look for :)
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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