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Posted on 08/03/2011 11:20:14 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
news just said 106, before heat index, Memphis is not only hot but muggy too. no rain in a week. 3rd yr in a row for cook on the vine toms...store bought just don’t taste as good.
You can compost anything that was once alive ( plant, animal, etc.)
The leaves break down good, better if you have other materials mixed in with them.
Same here. Started plants from seed and still getting a few of the cherry tomatoes. I never have been able to get plants to set tomatoes after July and am proud to be able to pick the last few this month. I thought the day/night time temperature was what determined if a flower sets and thought it was going to be a short season with the early heat and drought. Come on rain and rain some more.
In the “olden days” they just put the heads in a gunny sack and kept them in the sea for about a week. These can be dangerous for someone who has never begun eating them at a young age. In Haida, they are khink.
I agree. It could too easily transmit tomato specific pests or disease.
No kidding...
I've been composting for years. My garden could be considered organic by the strictest liberal organic label standards. I hang out my laundry to dry WHENEVER possible, (I've even gone into January one year because we had such a beautiful fall).
We walk where we can for errands in town. I combine trips into town when I have to go so that I'm not running out for every little thing.
Aside from saving the planet, it's much easier on the checkbook.
You've got that right!!!
I've got some friends that think is just wonderful hohw "green" I've gone. The only "green" it has anything to do with is keeping more of it in my pocket!!!
LOL! I like green, too.
Already? My Julienne tomato's are still producing like crazy, along with the cucumber and peppers. Zukes have bit the dust though.
I love your tag line.
That gets said every time I get up - unfortunately it is usually uttered by my husband or daughter :-)
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it from my family too some days.
However, mostly they are gone to school or work by the time I get up. They’ve learned not to wake me up in the morning.
If I’m not up when they are, I don’t want to be, and they are all old enough now to take care of themselves.
Oh my- the poor tomato plants. I would not produce either. Seriously- I hope it gets better soon.
Same here!
Like most here, I do not compost tomato and pepper plants. I also do not compost cucumber, melon, and pumpkin vines.
Actually I do not “compost” anything in a “compost pile”. I do till asparagus fern, onion leaves? stalks?, corn stalks and husks, lettuce, spinach, carrot, and radish tops, and bean vines into my garden to let them decompose “in place”, along with all my grass clippings and leaves that blow into my yard from my neighbors’ trees.
My garden gets taller every year, and my soil test last spring showed about 9% organic material. My local Ag. Extension Agent told me that was the best soil test results he had ever seen in this area.
As a matter of fact, one of the horses (there were 4 and 2 donkeys) was lying down enough that I called the Vet. The horse had no discernable symptoms of colic (bowel sounds good in all quadrants, pulse normal). He went ahead with the mineral oil flush and a ‘banamine’ shot. I stalled him all day and fed him hay at intervals....and within 2 hours he was as perky and as before.
So, $126 dollars later, I don’t think it was colic but some of the garden stuff didn’t agree with him.
Nothing better than the smell of great garden soil...
Leaves, grass clippings, egg shells...lots of earthworms...
105 today, no relieve in sight for at least a week. No rain either.
I’m getting to old to do this..
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