Posted on 10/25/2013 12:44:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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rightly, if you can keep a tomato plant indoors in the house, then I could, too. You know I don't know a lot about plant life yet, but if I can root a tomato plant, when it gets cold, I'll just bring it in the house. How about a tomato plant for a center piece in the middle of the dining table, or, better yet, use one for a Christmas Tree. I think I just have a new Christmas Tree. I'll try to find a sucker tomorrow and get it in water.
I think my sister-in-law and her husband are going to come here Christmas, and they know I'm strange, but even they would laugh at a tomato plant for a Christmas Tree.
I do something similar at the end of the season. I cut off the limbs that still have tomatoes and make sure I have several joints. Pick off the bottom leaves, and bury the stem in dirt, or use water.
Sometimes I use rooting powder, but not usually necessary. Pollinate by hand. Have grown tomatoes through the winter indoors using the fall cuttings.
Put them in front of a south or west window. Add a couple of hours or so of grow light after sunset. Hand fertilize and you should get some slow growing tomatoes.
In our old house we were sitting on a big sand hill. Thank goodness for compost. We put all kitchen scraps, including coffee grounds, coffee, unbleached coffee filters, lobster shells, clam shells, mussel shells, shrimp shells, leaves, any healthy waste from the garden, mown grass, salt marsh hay that was used as mulch during the winter, rabbit droppings..I could probably go on, but.. :)
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” Have grown tomatoes through the winter indoors using the fall cuttings.”
BUT HAVE YOU EVER HAD A TOMATO CHRISTMAS TREE!
Thank you, thank you ALL, for all the information. Fascinating! I might try this.
I never called it that, but we did have a tomato plant on the table where we ate at Christmas. I didn’t hang any ornaments on it though. Just some foil around the pot, and a ribbon around the top part of the pot.
Another blasted squirrel was just in the garden. I stood at the door and watched. He made a trip around the net room then went to the big squash and jumped into the barrel. I was out there in a flash and off he went. I didn’t put the tall squash in the net room as that would have been somewhat of a major move since there is 11 feet of it. So, I have wrapped the barrel with row cover and up the plant some. He can’t get inside the barrel now.
I’m going to set the animal trap right now and put it close to the big squash. If I catch him tonight, I am going to beat him to death tomorrow and hang his carcass where his friends can see it.
LOL. Such violence against such a little creature.LOL
The trap is set. A hammer in the head should dispatch him if I get him. I have a tall metal pole in the middle of the dirt garden where a hummingbird hook is. He should just look great to his friends all dead hanging from that pole.
Am trying to think of the Transylvania guy who cut off the heads of his enemies and staked them so people would stay in line.
Vlad the impaler?
VLAD THE IMPALER
“Vlad the impaler?”
Yes, that him - good old Vlad, house of Dracula.
A fascinating and repulsive bit of human history.
It is so beautiful in Floridah now, I understand the Snowbird Migration!
My Early Girl wilted badly in the Tx heat of August but since about mid-Sept its made somewhat of a comeback. I cut back many dead branches and leaves, gave it lots of water, compost and now I got a few green 'maters on the vines and some more tiny ones in the buds. Maybe it goes along for another 2-3 weeks before old frosty shows up. Its all a bonus at this point.
I have visited Florida several times during the holidays, when I was a youngster. It was great leaving the cold behind for a while.
The one thing I did not like: Sand Fleas. Well actually I didn’t care much for the porteguese man o war either.
I was walking along the beach and a wave splashes up and hit my arm - immediate stinging. A teeny tiny blob so small I almost couldn’t see it. Got really sick and threw up for a couple of days. Yuck.
But that only happened on one trip.
oh yeah..those jellyfish can be brutal.
Had pretty good success with rooting tomato branches or suckers a few inches long. My banana pepper plant had 2 branches knocked off by squirrels (your favorite pets Marcella).
Anyway i had those branches in water for over a month and nothing—not even a tiny root shoot but they did good in the water. I have one now out back in a container of water well over a month — lo and behold I’m getting a pepper growing and some buds but no root shoots. Go figure.....
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