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To: Marcella

That’s a great list - pretty ambitious for a beginning. Great Job!

I just got some tomato plants and the seedlings are still not ready to transplant, plus we seem to be having an extended cold period ie: late spring. I’ll for sure be using the bag method for some of them, since you are having great success that way.


19 posted on 04/19/2013 2:01:47 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes
OK, the wild tomatoes and strange small round squash that grows well in a drought, are planted.

I FOUND TWO TINY TOMATOES ON A ROMA TOMATO PLANT! I thought they had to grow much bigger before that happened however it has blooms all over. Another Roma has some blooms and the ones I planted later look like blooms are about to happen.

Look, I was going to plant everything in pots so I got general purpose potting soil with food to last 9 months already in it. Now, I'm putting seeds in the ground and I don't have good fancy soil to add to the ground dirt, but I've got three bags of the general purpose potting soil.

I did not tell the seeds what I was going to use. I put the general purpose in the planting space, then put in the seed or seeds, then put more general purpose over the seeds to the depth required on the envelope. Then, I told the seeds they had really good food to grow in. Then, I watered them.

If potting soil works in a pot, why wouldn't it work in a hole in the ground which would be a holding vessel the same as a pot?

32 posted on 04/19/2013 3:07:26 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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