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To: Red_Devil 232

You do have a green thumb. My heirloom tomatoes are FINALLY beginning to produce. They stayed stangnant all summer, just standing and not growing. I left them in place and did nothing but water them...they still, just stood there. We had a bit of a rain...there they stood...while we were gone we had a pretty good rain...they began to move...then we had another rain and they began to spread,,,THEY ARE VINES!...Now I’m beginning to pick some nice green striped tomatoes and they are wonderful. So are the okra that did nothing during the summer HOT months, but with the rain they are popping our fruit like gangbuster, as are the straight neck squash. As you may remember all of my little gardens are raised, 24 inches high and one is 16 feet long, the other 3 are same height, 5 feet long and 36 inches wide. We’ve planted some collards, cabbage and cauflower plants..so far they’re still alive.


107 posted on 10/23/2009 8:15:26 PM PDT by tillacum (Life isn't waiting for the rain to stop, it's learning to dance in the rain. (author ?))
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To: tillacum
LOL! I don't think I have a green thumb. Just a lot of hard work and got blessed with some nice weather during this past summer. I had to much rain in the early spring and this fall. I think I am going to only plant Marion and Arkansas Traveler and some 4th of July tomatoes this comming spring. Well now I have to add in a couple of paste type of tomatoes also (already changing my mind). All my pepper plants produced like gang busters. I think I will only plant a couple of jalapeno next year. I will try some okra. I am also going to try potatoes in buckets using HiramQuick's method. Egg plants.
117 posted on 10/24/2009 8:59:28 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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