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Over Summer Tomatoes - How To???
In my experience all peppers and eggplant love the heat so just make sure they get lots of water, which they also love. As for tomatillos, I have no experience with them. As for cutting back your to…
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Replied Jun 9
Over Summer Tomatoes - How To???
All I can do is share with you how I over summer my own tomatoes. When our temp.'s reach the mid 90's most tomatoes stop setting fruit. So, the idea is to keep your plants healthy and happy so that w…
Tagged: oversummer
Replied Jun 7
What's wrong with my tomato plants?
Except for store bought tomatoes that are picked before they're ripe, thus all the trouble we go through to produce our own, flavorful, nutritious, vine ripened fruits. :) Thank you again Chris. I t…
Replied Jun 3
What's wrong with my tomato plants?
I don't think the problem was mites, although I guess they could be there among the aphids. The little buggers were pretty good sized and not hard to see. I'm sure you are right about the mixed bag o…
Replied Jun 3
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In my experience all peppers and eggplant love the heat so just make sure they get lots of water, which they also love. As for tomatillos, I have no experience with them.
As for cutting back your tomatoes, if you can protect them from the hot after…
All I can do is share with you how I over summer my own tomatoes. When our temp.'s reach the mid 90's most tomatoes stop setting fruit. So, the idea is to keep your plants healthy and happy so that when our temp.'s return to the lower 90's, permanen…
Except for store bought tomatoes that are picked before they're ripe, thus all the trouble we go through to produce our own, flavorful, nutritious, vine ripened fruits. :)
Thank you again Chris. Again, I think you're right about leaving them alone…
I don't think the problem was mites, although I guess they could be there among the aphids. The little buggers were pretty good sized and not hard to see. I'm sure you are right about the mixed bag of issues. I would think that a healthy plant that…
Hey Chris, thank you for you input. I guess I should share my latest revelations in regards to my problem. I mentioned in my reply to Jennifer, Barbara and Anita's contributions, that I did have aphid problems on this row of tomatoes and after tryin…
Thank you so much for the tomato problem web site. I checked it out but didn't see anything that exactly matched my problem, close but "no cigar" :) I haven't seen any bugs since I, out of desperation, sprayed them with sevin when nothing else worke…
Thank you for the web site Jennifer. My dad used to grow beefsteak tomatoes and some of them would grow in odd shapes also. I think it is the nature of tomatoes that grow to a large size. I probably won't grow this variety next year. It won't hurt t…
Dianne, I have been seeing the same symptoms in some of my tomato plants as well as my pepper plants. I am still not sure what is causing it, but since it seems to be occurring on some plants and not others, as well as some parts of a plant and not…
I don't know what may be wrong with your plants, but I suspect from the fact that only one variety is affected and the yellowing leaves, that some nutritional need is not being met---If they were in my garden, I would try an iron/sulphur additive an…
I think my biggest problem is that there are 5 vines. Maybe I'll dig up 3 or 4 and leave 1 or 2. I can't believe how fast they're growing, it's like feet a day plus the sides shoots that are starting to appear. They seem to be attracted to my pepper…
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for the heads up. I did go out and pinch the tips to keep them from growing longer and thinned the gourds so the ones left would get bigger but never thought about the roots. Who in their right mind would send mystery s…
No reason to pull them up by the roots, when the vine is done, cut it off at the ground.
oh yeah, its a birdhouse gourd. It WILL take over your whole backyard. the roots go DEEP and are a b*tch to get up, even with moistened ground. we had one once, about 2-3 yrs ago. if you want to keep your apple tree, I'd pull them up. we had ours on…
Thank you Rachel!! I never thought about that possibility. Thought squash, melon, ? It's funny that it is a gourd. I had wanted to try growing some bird house size gourds for a few years but never made room for them and now I have them by accident.…
It's a gourd. My guess from the female blossoms is that it's a birdhouse gourd or something similar. :)
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- Mother of 4, Realtor, lived in Phoenix area since 1991, was an avid gardener in Northern Calif.
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- At 6:43pm on December 2, 2009,
Rosemeire Schreiner said… - Hi, thank you for the comment, I love your garden too.
- At 10:06pm on November 25, 2009,
Jeff Adams said… - Diane,
Thank you for the very nice & thoughtful recent comment on my garden. I'll take a moment here to alos see what you have posted on your site when I have a little more time. -Jeff
- At 1:39pm on November 20, 2009,
Dianne Felder said…
- Thank you for the link Ericka. I did take a look at the video and believe my Redflame grapes need to be cane pruned. I kinda had in mind last year how I would approach pruning this winter but sometimes best laid plans don't always work out. I love pruning almost anything so I have confidence I won't mess up too bad. Ha ha ha ha. I do know I must feed it when it starts sending out shoots. It must have grown to 8 to 10 times it's size this year plus the bumper crop of grapes so will need the aditional feeding.
- At 1:07pm on November 20, 2009,
Ericka Cero Wood said… - I hear that sometimes the second year (if you get fruit the first year) will not be as robust. There is a video that talks about the different pruning for specific grapes. Here is the link. We have 3 grapes first year in and did not get any fruit, and now have to prune as well. We need to look over our notes to see which ones are canes and which are spurs. The videos on fruit tree pruning are great too.
- At 4:45pm on November 19, 2009,
Ericka Cero Wood said…
- Welcome! Those grapes look awesome, can't wait till ours produces!
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