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Post by tomc on Apr 17, 2014 1:36:24 GMT -5
Wood why would you need to start over?
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Post by tomc on Mar 1, 2014 7:05:05 GMT -5
Do ya think Errol is still checking back after his welcome post of two years gone, is finaly answered?
Cherokee if you want discourse with other growers in this lifetime try Tomato Depot, or Friendly Gardener.
This site has been abandoned by its owners.
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Post by tomc on Dec 16, 2013 6:56:28 GMT -5
What is going on at this forum? Did everyone move someplace new? The only activity I see has to do with kitchens and pensions...that strikes me as odd. The site owners have abandoned tomatogarden.
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Post by tomc on Mar 18, 2013 8:51:09 GMT -5
If I planted the supermarket stuff, would it grow? Yes. If you reside in the deep south hard neck garlic might not get enough cold. FWIW garlic is fall planted and harvested in early summer.
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Post by tomc on Feb 12, 2013 7:51:14 GMT -5
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Post by tomc on Nov 22, 2012 11:43:17 GMT -5
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Post by tomc on Apr 19, 2011 15:07:01 GMT -5
Well I never knew these existed, and ALL Ox-Hearts should be PL I have many reasons for this and the main one is that Ox-Hearts usually have very wispy foilage and look like they are sick or dying and in need of water. Darth The lanceolate foliage you are disparaging is at least as reistant to late blight as you vaunted potato-leaves are. I concure it IS easy to over-water this droopy leaf plant. I think you need to find a better reason to dump on lanceolate-leaf tomatoes. Mm and FWIW I like potato leaf plants too.
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Post by tomc on Apr 10, 2011 12:49:54 GMT -5
Yes, please keep us posted on this tomato.
Tom sez wondering out loud if all that fuzz might not be a good barrier to splashed back soil borne disease.
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Post by tomc on Mar 26, 2011 7:33:40 GMT -5
My fix for BER (in lime starved NH) was to amend garden beds every other year with lime stone, and compost. That knocked most of BER presence out. A switch to to other than roma tomatoes knocked it to virtually nil.
By the time the total count of tomatoes with BER were less than 10 per 100 plants, per year it wasn't worth trying more.
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Post by tomc on Mar 24, 2011 11:20:24 GMT -5
Off Topic Alert For what its worth quick lime and sulphur cooked together will make a product called lime-sulphur it is used as a dormant oil for scale insects, or undiluted to bleach dead wood on bonsai.
When I use it I buy it pre-made.
Crushed oyster shell (poultry scratch) will break down in garden soil, over several years. It cannot be an immeadiate product. Nor will egg shells. Over time good. Right now-this-instant, no.
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Post by tomc on Mar 15, 2011 6:24:02 GMT -5
I thought double blooms were avoided because of the risk of cross-pollination? Exactly.
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Post by tomc on Feb 26, 2011 19:14:45 GMT -5
Earl, if your waiting for temperance, put out a call for Carry Nation...
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Post by tomc on Feb 26, 2011 15:49:36 GMT -5
I have some significant reservations about how this'll all end up, but I registered for the seed exchange.
An' no I aint bagging my tomatoes.
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Post by tomc on Feb 22, 2011 15:43:42 GMT -5
Open pollinated tomato offers the enterpising small scale gardener some real bang for their square foot of gardening space. In addtion to something yummier than s/he can buy at the stupormarket. They can try their hand at making selections based on their own preference (or whim).
If I have a problem it is all the fuzzy headedness of DEMANDING the sacred addition of Heirloom to stuff that not a single scrap of independent documentation exists of its venerable multi-century existance.
Hey! Its a good tomato. Get over it, with spining a myth about it.
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Post by tomc on Feb 20, 2011 14:18:25 GMT -5
Let me clarify my point SSE, isolation etc (not sure what wells have to do with this, stormy mater maybe you could explain) - I want to see maters in the everyday citizens hands. Theres nothing wrong with sse that way. With peppers, which what i was talking about - isolation and caging are a must. Just wanted to clarify, your quote was not from me - and not my reason for starting the thread. I do undertand. I do also want to stumulate some discussion and thought about how how best to keep open sources of seed out of big agro-biz hands. To me the fact that the Abraham Lincoln I'm growing out this year has drifted some from the cultivar is used to be, is of little import to me. Be well srf4grrl
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