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chhotiiIt's amazing how much stuff has grown in a month. Tomato plants have shot up, and most have flowers now, if not little green tomatoes.
I have decided that the rational thing to do is just buy seedlings for things like tomatoes at Mahoney's, considering that they have a greenhouse and I don't. They have such a fun variety of tomato plants! Cherry, plum, beefsteak, and salad tomatoes; hybrids and heirlooms; little plants and big ones. So many different varieties to try!
Tomatoes so wonderfully easy, and thank goo, the woodchucks really don't seem interested. Maybe next year we'll get the rototiller again and expand the tomato patch, and do something more useful than grow grass with some more of our land down there. I cannot imagine how we could ever grow too many tomatoes, especially with tamidon itching to can stuff. I should decide this summer how much land I want to till next summer, so I can start killing the grass where needed. Actually, if I kill the grass dead enough, I'm not sure I need the rototiller.
The fenced-in area can stay its current size, though, I think. Carrots and spinach are useful but more labor-intensive, so I don't have time to grow more of those. Peas, edemame, zucchini, and squash seem pretty easy so far, but no need to go gonzo on the quantities of those. (I can believe there is such a thing as "too much zucchini".)
I have decided that the rational thing to do is just buy seedlings for things like tomatoes at Mahoney's, considering that they have a greenhouse and I don't. They have such a fun variety of tomato plants! Cherry, plum, beefsteak, and salad tomatoes; hybrids and heirlooms; little plants and big ones. So many different varieties to try!
Tomatoes so wonderfully easy, and thank goo, the woodchucks really don't seem interested. Maybe next year we'll get the rototiller again and expand the tomato patch, and do something more useful than grow grass with some more of our land down there. I cannot imagine how we could ever grow too many tomatoes, especially with tamidon itching to can stuff. I should decide this summer how much land I want to till next summer, so I can start killing the grass where needed. Actually, if I kill the grass dead enough, I'm not sure I need the rototiller.
The fenced-in area can stay its current size, though, I think. Carrots and spinach are useful but more labor-intensive, so I don't have time to grow more of those. Peas, edemame, zucchini, and squash seem pretty easy so far, but no need to go gonzo on the quantities of those. (I can believe there is such a thing as "too much zucchini".)
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Date: 2005-07-04 10:25 am (UTC)tomatoes. all cherry (they dry well), except for a "Patio" tomato given to me by a friend
(oh, and some scarlet runner beans in the leftover whiskey barrel...)
But you are right; tomatoes are easy. (Keep an eye out for those tomato caterpillars though...)
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Date: 2005-07-04 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-04 11:39 am (UTC)Yeah
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Date: 2005-07-04 05:10 pm (UTC)Re: Yeah
Date: 2005-07-04 06:09 pm (UTC)Dried tomatoes!!!
You rock! :)
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Date: 2005-07-04 09:38 pm (UTC)Of course, the little green ones may be problematic also, but I don't know what they are. If you have any cruciferous vegetables, they might be cabbage worms, who do eat tomato plants (but prefer cabbage, broccoli, etc...)
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Date: 2005-07-05 07:41 pm (UTC)http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Pests/tomato.htm