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Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 10:15 AM
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I always like to let Good Friday come and go before I get serious! Better Boy and Park's Whoppers will be the predominant varieties this season!! Probably cut off at 20 sets this year!! Have had as many as 54 sets in my younger days!! Could hardly keep them picked!
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I will be planting some maters in about a month
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Mar 5, 2024, 10:22 AM
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and now you have me thinking about that first tomato sandwich!!!!!!
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Re: I will be planting some maters in about a month
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Mar 5, 2024, 10:51 AM
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MmmmmmmmmmmmBoy!!!!!!!
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 10:30 AM
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I'm itching to plant. I usually plant first week April and cover plants if frost is predicted. I get maters by middle of June. I used to plant 32 plants but have cut back in my old age to 6.
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AVEENO may help it.
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Mar 5, 2024, 10:36 AM
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When we first moved into our house here in Orangeburg, it was on a new lot, on what in the past had been farm fields or edges of farm fields. The rear portion had what I call "cow itch vines" which I pulled up by hand. For nearly TEN YEARS after this, every spring, my hands would itch like crazy, and have all these little fluid filled cysts. All from those dratted cow itch vines!
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 11:04 AM
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Thinking of doing them in those galvanized tubs this year instead of the ground since I get so many disease issues in my soil. Any suggestions on soil to use?
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
Mar 5, 2024, 11:09 AM
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I planted my potatoes and onions. Lettuce will be next then tomatoes.
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 11:18 AM
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I now plant in really large plastic pots, and I mean large. I fill each pot with Miracle Grow potting soil and mix in black cow manure. My plants get about 8 feet tall and produce lots of maters.
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 12:14 PM
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I might look into that. How do you keep them from tipping over and do you stake them in the pot or allow to run?
Thanks
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 1:09 PM
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I put the largest mater cages in the pot with each as soon as frost is over. They grow out of the top, but I use some tall 8 foot stakes that I also put in the pot or just outside the pot and tie them up. I would post pictures from my cell phone but I don't know how. I can send pictures by texting but can't download to pooter and save to file and then post here.
Last year a very strong wind shear did tip them over. First time that had happened. Set them upright and then drove stakes in ground next to them and tied them to the stakes on all 4 sides. No more tipping over. Of course if you wanted to bury pots half way in ground that would also work.
I don't have room to do that. I sold my mini far when I was given 6 mos. to live due to inoperable cancer and moved to a continuing care retirement community. God answered my prayers for a miracle and now 5 years later I am cancer free. So, I am limited to what I can now do with growing veggies.
I am 80 YOA and have had a garden all my life starting with my parents since I was 6 years old. It's in my DNA. My mom lived to be 100 y.o.a. and had a pretty big garden until she turned 91 and fell in garden and broke wrist. We talked her out of doing any more gardening after that. Gardening for my parents was not a hobby. It was our food source as we were pretty poor.
I will plant maters and okra until I am no longer able to do it. I will find a way.
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
Mar 5, 2024, 1:11 PM
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One important key to tomato growing is to make sure there is enough space between plants that they do not make contact with one another! Whatever disease one may get, spreads easily to the next plant if contact is made. Disease can also spread from your contact from one plant to the next. I carry a damp rag and continually wipe my hands to help prevent disease spread!
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 11:13 AM
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I've been planting around April 1st recent years and it's gone fine. I'm between Greenville and greenwood. I'll only do 10-12 plants Better boy and one other. I tried the Cherokee purple and it did Not do well for me. I'm late starting squash, cukes etc in my house but the dirt is currently on my kitchen counter. Will do today. For the first time I over-wintered a Bell pepper inside my house as a house plant and it's done great so I'll be interested to see how it goes outside this spring.
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Love to grow and eat the Roma tomatoes!***
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Mar 5, 2024, 11:14 AM
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Re: Love to grow and eat the Roma tomatoes!***
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Mar 5, 2024, 1:53 PM
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Oh yes thanks for the reminder, Roma have done well for me!
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My doctor told me my itch is not...
Mar 5, 2024, 11:22 AM
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....from the tomato garden. I hoping the antibiotics and other meds he prescribed will clear it up. Off of the dating circuit until then.
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Give me another month- still watching for
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Mar 5, 2024, 11:27 AM
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volunteers to come up like they did last year- didn’t have to buy any -
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 12:16 PM
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Once we get past the last freeze of the year (typically in April)...absolutely!!!
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
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Mar 5, 2024, 1:03 PM
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I try to grow in raised beds (live in a subdivision) and get the mold and rot every year. Basically, throw away money trying to grow tomatoes. May just grow squash and other items this year and buy tomatoes from the farmers market.
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
Mar 5, 2024, 1:15 PM
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Put a handful of lime and a tablespoon of epson salt in the hole where you plant the mater. You won’t have root rot any more!
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
Mar 5, 2024, 1:15 PM
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Put a handful of lime and a tablespoon of epson salt in the hole where you plant the mater. You won’t have root rot any more!
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too eARLY
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Mar 5, 2024, 1:08 PM
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Too early to plant will be getting the ground ready on the 19th as I celebrate Spring. Maybe I will post some tips for you guys.
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Re: Anybody getting that tomato garden itch yet?!!
Mar 5, 2024, 1:55 PM
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No but getting that cold beer out in the sunshine itch😎
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