How Does Your Garden Grow?
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I have one squash plant, one Better Boy tomato plant, and one bell pepper plant. The squash plant is now about 3 ft. in circumference. The tomato plant has grown out horizontally, too. Very wide. It has lots of tomatoes on it. Still green. Two squash are ready to pick. Maybe tomorrow. Can't wait to see how they taste. Harvested one green and one red bell pepper. The red one was better. Next year, a larger garden would be nice.
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I only do tomatoes. I have 12 different varieties. Have gotten quite a few already. With tomatoes you can always freeze them for later & make soup or chili but I love them in salad & just cut up & served with any grilled stuff...sauasge, hot dogs, brats. mmmm. I used to have cucs but store bought are better. Broccoli got bugs of the same color...yuk. Peppers are ok but usually crisper from the store.
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oobu24:
I only do tomatoes. I have 12 different varieties. Have gotten quite a few already. With tomatoes you can always freeze them for later & make soup or chili but I love them in salad & just cut up & served with any grilled stuff...sauasge, hot dogs, brats. mmmm. I used to have cucs but store bought are better. Broccoli got bugs of the same color...yuk. Peppers are ok but usually crisper from the store.
Sorry to hear that about your bell peppers. I must have a little patch of soil that bell peppers like. Two years ago, I had 6 plants and harvested over 30 bell peppers. They tasted the same as store bought.
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Fan4-45years:
oobu24:
I only do tomatoes. I have 12 different varieties. Have gotten quite a few already. With tomatoes you can always freeze them for later & make soup or chili but I love them in salad & just cut up & served with any grilled stuff...sauasge, hot dogs, brats. mmmm. I used to have cucs but store bought are better. Broccoli got bugs of the same color...yuk. Peppers are ok but usually crisper from the store.
Sorry to hear that about your bell peppers. I must have a little patch of soil that bell peppers like. Two years ago, I had 6 plants and harvested over 30 bell peppers. They tasted the same as store bought.
Maybe it's time for me to try peppers again since I buy them every week! Good snack too!
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oobu24:
Fan4-45years:
oobu24:
I only do tomatoes. I have 12 different varieties. Have gotten quite a few already. With tomatoes you can always freeze them for later & make soup or chili but I love them in salad & just cut up & served with any grilled stuff...sauasge, hot dogs, brats. mmmm. I used to have cucs but store bought are better. Broccoli got bugs of the same color...yuk. Peppers are ok but usually crisper from the store.
Sorry to hear that about your bell peppers. I must have a little patch of soil that bell peppers like. Two years ago, I had 6 plants and harvested over 30 bell peppers. They tasted the same as store bought.
Maybe it's time for me to try peppers again since I buy them every week! Good snack too!
Yeah, it saved a lot. I got all 6 plants for $1.79. I was making bell pepper sandwiches, eating them in salads, etc. They are high in vitamin C, too. My garden is next to the house. When I started digging, found lots of metal objects that the builders had buried. Always wondered if that enriched the soil.
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hehe...enriched the soil...my neighbor has a ginormous garden (I mean really big) & it's over his septic leech field.
I'm expecting him to start glowing green. He also must put some type of horse poop in the garden...even my dog has her nose up in the air & starts howling when the wind blows from that direction. Thank goodness it usually blows the other way.
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One trick I figured out for tomatoes and peppers and similar garden plants is to make a 2 to 3 ft. diameter bowl in the soil about 4 inches deep in the center and plant your starters at the middle. When you water or when it rains, the water will pool up directly over the roots and soak straight down to them. I first tried this with a hawaiian tomato plant and it ended up close to 5 feet tall and around 4 feet wide with hundreds of little red salad tomatoes on it. A friend who grew a lot of them said that it was the biggest one she'd ever seen!
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a little rosewater mixed with water sometimes helps love doris
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SurSteven:
One trick I figured out for tomatoes and peppers and similar garden plants is to make a 2 to 3 ft. diameter bowl in the soil about 4 inches deep in the center and plant your starters at the middle. When you water or when it rains, the water will pool up directly over the roots and soak straight down to them. I first tried this with a hawaiian tomato plant and it ended up close to 5 feet tall and around 4 feet wide with hundreds of little red salad tomatoes on it. A friend who grew a lot of them said that it was the biggest one she'd ever seen!
what a great suggestion. makes perfect sense. may try that next year if I can remember it.
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The_Fool:
I planted some Groucho plants and wouldn't you know it ..... the weeds went out and bought some Groucho fake glasses with mustache and eyebrows .... well now I can't tell the weed from the plant
Okay there is some truth in this ..... I have some weeds that do a pretty good job at looking like the plant they are next to ..... I do not pull them out because they look like the plant ..... when they get taller and start to look more like a weed type of thing .... then I pull them out and it is tougher at that point .... I should get out there in a few minutes and do some weeding of the garden and around the house ....
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The_Fool:
The_Fool:
I planted some Groucho plants and wouldn't you know it ..... the weeds went out and bought some Groucho fake glasses with mustache and eyebrows .... well now I can't tell the weed from the plant
Okay there is some truth in this ..... I have some weeds that do a pretty good job at looking like the plant they are next to ..... I do not pull them out because they look like the plant ..... when they get taller and start to look more like a weed type of thing .... then I pull them out and it is tougher at that point .... I should get out there in a few minutes and do some weeding of the garden and around the house ....
Yes, you and me2
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My husband just ordered red hydrangeas to plant this Fall!
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GYPSYGIRL:
My husband just ordered red hydrangeas to plant this Fall!
Nice! Didn't know they came in red.
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Having trouble with some weeds that look like a tall grass, they pop up all over after a rainstorm!
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My roses looked so good then overnight they almost died out completly. I was so upset so I tried to figure out what went wrong then I found out fire ants will eat them, but the thing that bothered me was that fire ants aren't reginal. Anyway cinnamon worked for the ants. Now I can't find my pruners. At least the bushes are looking green again.
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love2travel:
Having trouble with some weeds that look like a tall grass, they pop up all over after a rainstorm!
Yea, I get the same here - fortunately they grow faster & higher than the grass - makes them easier to pull.
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EASTER IN AUGUST... My Easter Lilies from Easter this year naturally died back after they bloomed and then decided to regrow again. The first pic is from a few days ago...and the second is from today along with my wilted down straw flowers...Thought someone might find this to be cool!
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nice
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yes, very nice
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SurSteven:
EASTER IN AUGUST... My Easter Lilies from Easter this year naturally died back after they bloomed and then decided to regrow again. The first pic is from a few days ago...and the second is from today along with my wilted down straw flowers...Thought someone might find this to be cool!
I froze some daffadils. I want to replant them in a month or so to see if they can be tricked into growing out of season. I heard you could do that with tulips.