largest tomato competition

slowmo77 · May 10, 2009

ok i've got about 30 matter plants going. but im havin a problem with a few. they've already started puttin out matters. one already has two on it. not sure whats going on. they're real young plants.

also question for you garden masters. a few of my tomato plant leaves have started to turn yellow. its the bottom leaves. could this be a N dife or what? i know very little about regular garden plants so any ideas will help. everything else in the garden is doing good. i'll take some pics here soon and post them.. thanks everyone

zipflip · May 10, 2009

unfortunately im all new to the gardenin scene myself slowmo, but im anxious to see some pix tho. and maybe take some notes lol. i got 8 beef steak 8 cali bells an 8 kaleidescope bells all sprouted now. Finally.. lol. the pekkers take forever to sprout.:giggle:

zipflip · May 10, 2009

cubby said:
Went thru 4 bowls and a case and a half of homebrew,fairly productive day. .

my dad makes his own brew too. an after a few firt attempts an tweekin his own talent. i find that its hands down better than beer in the stores. granted a guy make it right.
do you do yours from scratch or you use a kit like a "MR. Beer" kit deal?
4bowls an case n half

wow man. i get headspins when i mix beer an then smoke. but if i smoke and drink the beer i'm fine. an 4 my dads homebrews an im blitzed. LOL ya musta been feelin perty dang good huh? lol

cubby · May 11, 2009

banjobuzz said:
dang cubby, case and a half? - how did you accomplish anything? ...bb...

I started around 7am. Beer goes quick when you're not paying attention. For some bizzar reason when I garden I can go through a lot of beer and smoke. If I was an acctual farmer I'd probably be a wreck ( but I bet I'd have a smile on my face)

I'm looking for something to plant with my tomatos, like companion planting, my site has a nice sunny southern exposure, well draining fertile soil. Anyone got any suggestions?

cubby · May 11, 2009

zipflip said:
my dad makes his own brew too. an after a few firt attempts an tweekin his own talent. i find that its hands down better than beer in the stores. granted a guy make it right.
do you do yours from scratch or you use a kit like a "MR. Beer" kit deal?
4bowls an case n half wow man. i get headspins when i mix beer an then smoke. but if i smoke and drink the beer i'm fine. an 4 my dads homebrews an im blitzed. LOL ya musta been feelin perty dang good huh? lol

I've been a homebrewer for 10+ years. I've never used the kits. I brew strictly from scratch,I even grind my own grains. It does take a bit of trial and error to get it down right. But it's deffinately worth it.

I've just switched over from my winter stock ( a collection of brews in the styles like Guiness, Wiesen, and Dark Double boch) to my summer stock somewhat in the same vein of a lime enfused corona and some german inspired pilsners.
I practicaly never drink commercialy produced beer anymore ( I spoiled myself) with the exception of when a micro-brewery comes out with something new, just to see if I can get an inspiration for a new brew. If I'm invited to a party I always bring a case or so ( the hosts usually think I'm being grasious but it's so I'll be confident that they'll have something I like)

As far as felling good, I can't complain, no hangover. I don't usually drink that much in a sitting, usually 6-8 is my limit, but when I garden for some reason the wheels come off....

IRISH · May 11, 2009

been a beer drinker for 30 years, and could never drink a case and a half of any store bought in a single day, let alone a fine pilsner, or a boch, or amber ale. you musta been fall down snockered. how straight did you get your rows buddy?

. we'll see come pic time.

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slowmo, how young are we talking? did they have blooms already? are these plants outside, or in? we only do veggies outside in spring. i've only started them inside, so's to be ready when the frost passes. would love to see pics.

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we had a chance for a late frost last night, and again tonight. got down to 35 last night. 1 more like that, then smooth sailing...bb...

slowmo77 · May 11, 2009

whats up BB, all mine are in the outdoor garden. they're pretty young i'd say 4 weeks give or take a few days. we're way past any frost down here. our night temps are in the 50's to 60's days in the 80's. i'll go out right now and take a few pics and get them up for you guys to see.

well i was gonna go take pics, but the the wife took the camera. my boy had feild day at school today so i'll take some this evening when she gets home.

slowmo77 · May 11, 2009

a few pics of the garden. most of it has bearly started to grow but i hope soon it will be a jungle. i also took a couple of pics of our hangin matter plants. you'll also see my little mj plant growin with a bell pepper plant.

in the small pots i have squash and okra waiting to plant once they get a little bigger

cubby · May 11, 2009

banjobuzz said:
been a beer drinker for 30 years, and could never drink a case and a half of any store bought in a single day, let alone a fine pilsner, or a boch, or amber ale. you musta been fall down snockered. how straight did you get your rows buddy? . we'll see come pic time. .

slowmo, how young are we talking? did they have blooms already? are these plants outside, or in? we only do veggies outside in spring. i've only started them inside, so's to be ready when the frost passes. would love to see pics. .

we had a chance for a late frost last night, and again tonight. got down to 35 last night. 1 more like that, then smooth sailing...bb...

I have'nt drank like that in about 8 years, now I remember why.

I went out to the greenhouse this morning to check on the tomatos. They look like they were planted in the shape of a arthritic snake. Of the 20, I had to replant 7 just to get them kind of straight, but I did get them plenty deep!
A nieghbor asked me earlier today if I had gotten the peppers in, apparently I talked to him yesterday but I'll be switched if I can remember. I guess it'll be another 8 years before I do that again.
The amazing thing is no hangover. But I did somehow manage to hurt my foot ( not really shore I want to now how).
At least I did'nt do any damage to the tomato plants. They're loving my little greenhouse thy're in. When I opened it this morning that smell of manuer just hit me right in the face, smells like a good garden should, lots of worms too. I guess they come up top in the morning because of the humidity in the greenhouse.
I can hardly wait for the weather to stay warm enough to put my peppers in the new raised beds. Right now they're still in 4 inch pots setting in the greenhouse.

IRISH · May 11, 2009

looks like some rough ground you got to work with slowmo. that bites. but your garden looks nice.

. were just beginning our out door gardens here. looks like you been at it for a bit.

. i won't see toms til around july.

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cubby, i been known to hang a few good ones too. usually ends up with a bump, and scrape, or two, then 2-3 days recupe'in.

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been out in the garden all afternoon. planted more peanuts, and more peaches and cream sweet corn. it is round two with the corn. (two rows every 10 days

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started a third garden today for cukes, yellow squash, and cantaloupe. just got in. got dark on me. sore as all get out. fix'in to fire up a hoot and show y'all a few pics.

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HippyInEngland · May 12, 2009

Holy shamoli.

Have you got a backbone made of iron Banjo?

eace:

IRISH · May 12, 2009

pretty sore this morning. didnt sleep well. awoke 4 am. feel good about all the work i got done yesterday. gotta run down to the feed mill for more corn and a D-Handle hoe this morning. gotta pick up some grub-ex too, or the ground moles are gonna play havoc on my seed.

4 lumbar surgeries Hippy.

. i had let my weight get a bit overboard this past winter. it's coming off now. was up to 240 pounds

, brought it back down to 210. could stand to shed 20 more.

so in all honesty, yes, i've a back built with iron (rods).

...bb...

cubby · May 12, 2009

Morning all,
BB your garden beds look pretty nice.Good luck with the corn. I can never get anything from a corn crop,Damn raccoons. I was told by an old lady I know that if I grew pumpkins in the corn the raccoons would'nt go into the patch. Supposedly they don't like to walk on the vines.
Your lilacs are looking nice as well. I've got purple and white ones in front of my house, they're around 20 feet tall. They really make the side yard smell good.I planted them 14 years ago when I bought this house. They started out literaly as twigs.
I'm looking to do some transplanting today. I'm gonna' move some daylilys and tall phlox from in front of a south facing fence. I thought this would be a good place to plant some cucumbers for pickling. I'm gonna' staple some chicken wire to the fence and use it as a trellis. I may throw another row of peppers in front of that,(you can never have too many peppers)

and onions in front of that. I'm trying some companion planting this season. From what I've read it should give me more produce per square foot while reducing weeding and improving soil conditions. If nothing else it'll keep me out of trouble.
Hey Slomo, after reading over your posts yesterday I had to go take a good look at my tomatos to see if I had any fruit growing yet. No fruit but deffinately some small flower pods. These tomato plants are 2 months old, I started them from seed on my sun porch. Plants out there get plenty of sun because it faces south and has skylights.
I noticed the pine trees in your pics, does the acidity of the soil cause you any problems with veggies or do you do any kind of specific amending, if so with what? Good luck with your upside down tomato plant. I'll be watching to see what kind of results you get.
I'm gonna' try to post some pics later today, it's supposed to start raining around noon so I want to get in what yard work I can before then. Take it easy.

slowmo77 · May 12, 2009

your right BB. the soil here is bad. we've added alot of stuff to it horse manure and saw dust mostly in the fall when we turn the soil. by the time springs here you can't even tell it was there. its tuff working with red clay. we also made the garden larger this year so we found alot of rocks. we been picking rocks out for the last two years. it'll get better over time.

docfishwrinkle · May 20, 2009

slowmo look into humic acid to help break up that clay.

zipflip · May 20, 2009

all mine are in small pots inside yet. i put them out in the day an bring in at night its still pretty chilly at nite here yet.
i also picked up one them topsy turvv deals at wal mart for 10 bux just to try it too.
i'll try gettin pix up later on.
also gonna build a small radish bed/box too.
i love them suckas too
i'm really startin to get into this whole gren thumbin bit, and not just the mj either lol
its rather peaceful doin it really.

zipflip · May 30, 2009

well i made an arrangement with my neighbor. he noticed i was gettin buckets ready to plant watever(my toms) and he come ovr to shoot the ****
and told me if i wnated to i could use part his back yard to plant a garden next to his garden he has.
i thought, Damn wat a nice guy.
so i tilled her up and prepped with bags of compost an manure blood meal bone meal lime etc etc and he also helped me out in doin it as he been gardein for years an years.
and ya know wats the wildest part...
he sparked up a doob an passed it to me when i wasnt payin attention.
i was like shocked. never in a million yrs would i ever expect my neightbor to be a smoke. i mean he's way older than my gramps even lol.
talk bout ya awkward mornin today for me.
lol
but hey i got a shoe in with a dude who can and is willin to school me in this whole organic bizz. .
but anyway. all my toms an pepers ar still goin yet.
got bunch other seds a whole bunch of stuff.
and i got a friend now who is wilin to school me in on it all as well as he has 4 rain barrels he catches rain water in which are in elevation higher than his an my garden spots an has a hose spicket deal on bottom of all the barrels to water things etc..
this guy is retired smokes dope an does nothin but yard work an gardening. i think i made a new pal lol

cubby · May 30, 2009

Hey Zip,
Congrats man. A good niehbor is always good to find and it sounds like you found a keeper.
I have 10 large tomato types, 10 Romas, and 4 cherry. The large and romas are in the ground in my greenhouse ( I have to remove the plastic cover, probably tomorrow) the 4 cherrys are in pots ( I'll be transplanting them to 20 gallon containers tomorrow as well. I like the cherry tomatos in containers so they can sit up on my deck, I just sort of graze at will, I do the same with my herbs.
I also have 32 Bell peppers (multiple kinds ), and 24 hot peppers ( also multiple kinds). I planted 400 onions 1/2 white 1/2 red.
I'll be keeping an eye on this thread to see how everyones gardens are comming along.
Best of luck

4u2sm0ke · Jun 1, 2009

Hello friends...those gardens all look great..

ZipFlip...My Mom wanted to do some salsa gardening on her deck..so for Mothers day I made up some container ones for her..ill keep ya posted on these grow...as well as the ones in my Yard..Just thaught i would share these with you