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To: afraidfortherepublic
I cannot imgaine growing 14 mater plants in a 4x8ft space. I would like to see pictures of that, and the rest of your garden. It really looked nice in the pictures that you posted a month ago. It looked so neat and well designed and built. I showed those pictures to wife, too. She does not have a FR id, she just reads this thread and the cooking thread, and some news.

I am back because I had to get out of the heat. Temp here is a cool 90 heading for 95 today, the coolest day in weeks. I had the maters staked with stakes that I cut from 2x4's, so they were about 7 1/2 ft tall. We just tied more limbs up this week because they were growing every in every direction. This is a couple of weeks ago, just before we straightened them up. Photobucket They have gone wild since this picture. They are to the top of the stakes and were taking over the grassy area of the picture. We have not had any bugs or bird to attack the maters, and that is why we wanted to keep them staked upwards rather than grow across the ground where the bugs are. This being my first ever crop of ripe tomatos, I really have no idea what I am doing. Just guessing at it.

We had an 8ft Pencil Cactus in a 24" container to blow over, too.

Some storm! The second picture is of our westward sky, taken from the tomato row. It shows the shade that has blocked the 100 deg direct sun from them. It also shows the western portion of the sunny window in the tree canopy. We get about 4-5hrs of mid-day sun, which has worked out just fine for this year, next year, who knows, I might not be able to get the right conditions to grow anything. Photobucket

76 posted on 07/15/2011 9:46:57 AM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: rightly_dividing

Your tomato plants look 100% healthier than mine!


83 posted on 07/15/2011 10:22:00 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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