Posted on 03/25/2017 7:21:25 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Can anyone suggest a good soil tezter for acidity
Pinging the list.
Snow predicted here in the high Colorado Rockies for the next week. Trying to figure out when the right time to plant potatoes, turnips and rutabagas will be.
So where is everyone?
I would say in July Greeneyes, LOL
Has anyone ever grown Chayote?
would love some feedback on growing tomatoes in big containers. always get tall healthy plants but not much fruit.
I want to keep my dirt as chesterfield va dirt produces a quality tomatoe.
Beular.... beular... beular.....
Our garden plants are into their second transplant and I expect they'll be out, hardening off, in a week.
We started seeds a month earlier in February last year and found the was too early. Yeah we had big plants ready for the garden, but the garden wasn't ready...
Grow some paste varieties.
Smaller tomatoes but lots of tomatoes every week.
found a weird one this week, gonna give it a try. Milk is good for pastures and tomatoes and other plants.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/milk-and-molasses-magic-zbcz1402
not a big fan of Mother earth, I prefer the conservative Backwoods Home magazine but the milk bit sounds good.
litmus paper
Here are some more weird ones- have not tried any....
http://www.ehow.com/about_6668547_coconut-water-plant-growth.html
http://www.naturallivingideas.com/weird-garden-remedies/
started lettuce today for the outside towers. i will need a lot more as i have three towers with 15 pots in each. tomatoes are doing pretty well three inches on most.
Turnips are a cool weather crop, but in CO that’s probably another month.Here in So. Missouri I’ve got turnips in some big buckets in the driveway & they’re already about 8” high. I’ll have them out in another month & then use the buckets for summer squash. (I’m old so I just container-garden now.)
When I gardened in Denver, the season was maybe 4 months long. Hail in June, snow on Sept. 6th, etc. Here it’s a good 7 months.
The real large tomato types won’t do well in containers, but this year I’m trying Bella Rosa and Tasti-lee, regular salad tomatoes but not huge. I use $2. 2 gallon Walmart buckets with holes drilled in the bottom, filled with potting soil. Could use larger, but couldn’t lift them, & these work. Keep the plants fertilized & save up ground eggshells to dig into the soil. I use spray-on blossom set cuz I don’t see many bees any more.
Still too cold to plant anything...but that’s New England for you.
Good question, I also need to test my blueberries’ soil acidity.
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