Weekly Gardening Thread (Transplanting Tomatoes) Vol. 10, March 9, 2012

Friday, March 9, 2012 | JustaDumbBlonde

[trisham]

Wow! Beautiful!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

That was last year. I haven’t even started this year, except to get the stakes and the landscape fabric pulled up.

[Gabz]

I have a 2 piece wooden thingamajig that I use to make mine. I do believe I got it through the Burpee Seed catalog/website.

[trisham]

Lovely plant!

[trisham]

I'm looking forward to your pics of this season's garden. :)

Your garden looks so perfect. Mine has never looked that good.

[rightly_dividing]

Even with us moving ourselves we are having problems remembering what some boxes have in them. Most boxes were marked well enough but at the end of the packing process we neglected to label every box and some items were just thrown in to boxes to fill them up!

Same here!

[rightly_dividing]

We were going to plant tomorrow, but that may be called due to the weather.

[painter]

I’m a newbie but would like to grow some tomatoes in a container this year. Thank you.

Are you going to use a double 5 gallon buckets?

[Sarajevo]

*Most clay soils in this area already have too much super phosphate, which tends to stay in the soil for a long period of time. The local nursery people tell me, the best way to correct this is by adding ammonium sulphate which is 21-0-0.

If I remember my soils correctly, ammonium sulphate will sour the soil (lower the pH) and allow plants to take up the nutrients in the soil. If the pH is too high, the nutrients remain locked in the soil.

I've been using ferrous sulphate around my plants in the Hill Country for that same purpose.

[Sarajevo]

It sounds like you may need some raised beds for your garden.

[painter]

How about a fertilizer formula for potatoes? My potato patch has run out of gas and hardly puts out potatoes.

[painter]

My tomato seedlings are about an inch tall.

I have some a foot tall.I started a month earlier.By the time I can plant them they will probably have tomatoes on them.

[txhurl]

I was at one of the parks last week and there are areas that have several feet of good dirt.

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Yep. Some poor ol boy trucked it in, thought he owned the dirt but was just leasing it.

It’s all the way containers this year for me. My two wisterias FINALLY are sprouting a little green just today, those vines can play deader than any possum.

[txhurl]

I was at one of the parks last week and there are areas that have several feet of good dirt.

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See, jadb? We really DO have to hunt around if we want dirt, then sit and plot ways to capture and transport it surreptitiously.

[perchprism]

I started planting tomatoes under landscape fabric several years ago, in an effort to make use of some of the empty space near the house that we’d landscaped. Those tomatoes did so remarkably well compared to plants out in the garden I came to figure out that what tomatoes really like is a stable moisture content in the soil. The fabric keeps the soil at a uniform moisture level most of the time. Also, I think the plants appreciated the partial shade they’d get when planted close to the house.

I built my cages out of hogwire, about 3 feet in diameter and 60” tall. Nowadays I grow too many tomatoes to have them all near the house, so I have started putting landscape fabric down in the garden and then covering with leaves saved from the previous Fall. I have to use a cage because otherwise the deer and rabbits get at them.

[patriot08]

I’m sorry but I don’t know anything about gardening.
I just posted the tomato formula because our local weather man, Dale Nelson, is famous for his tomatoes.

[patriot08]

I’m sorry but I don’t know anything about gardening.
I just posted the tomato formula because our local weather man, Dale Nelson, is famous for his tomatoes.

[P.O.E.]

I’m working on growing potatoes (with an “e”) in 5 gallon tubs this year. I’ve been collecting tubs off the sides of the road (bleaching & cleaning them as I go). It’s new territory for me, so we’ll see how it works out.

[Red_Devil 232]

Cashmere is not sure at this point, But she knows this is her house. She got out through a double gate in the fence and was right at the front door scratching to get in. After my aching muscles feel better I will take her out for a walk around the neighborhood on a leash so she will have an idea where she is and where her home is, if she gets out again. But for now she is sticking as close to us as she can.

[tubebender]

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