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GREAT report from MASTER GARDENER ME:

Hey, this gardening stuff is easy: Since I don’t know what I’m doing exactly, I’m just doing GREAT:

I have 9 tomatoes (two are cherry) in containers growing GREAT. I’ve got actual tomatoes, real, honest to goodness tomatoes, 6 on one cherry and 4 on another cherry (the one growing in the potting soil bag), and flowers on three regular tomatoes. The other regular ones without flowers I planted a number of days after the blooming ones.

I have tiny lettuce I can see coming up in a 5 ft. long on the ground planter. GREAT.

When at Lowe a several weeks ago, I got a small plastic container with basil seed in it and one with a sweet pepper in it and just added the water and planted those in the little plastic contains a couple of days ago. I can see two tiny basil already and no response yet from the pepper but it’s too soon for that. GREAT.

Yesterday, I replanted tobacco seed Johnny sent me and hope they do right this time as I managed to kill the other ones I planted. GREAT.

I bought a small greenhouse and have heirloom seeds coming from Terroir Seeds, should be here in a day or so. That is all I could think of doing to keep the birds from eating my seeds and have a place to grow seeds in the early springs. There are two huge oak trees behind the fence of my garden and squirrels and birds live in those trees and watch for something to eat in my garden. GREAT.

One package of those seeds are wild tomatoes that were found on Gallipolis Island. These are smallish tomatoes that insist on staying alive and if you leave one sort of in the ground, it will grow another plant the next year. Just leave as many as you want for the next year in the ground. I will also save seed from that plant. I also got a wild onion that insists on growing the next year and the next, etc. GREAT.

I bought a large size row cover that isn’t here yet. This one lets sun and rain in, but keeps out birds and squirrels. It’s fine on a row or cut it to fit around a plant. I will do that for the tomatoes as soon as it gets here to keep the squirrels and birds from getting the tomatoes which they damn sure will as they have done it in past years when my husband did a garden. GREAT.

SEE, this gardening stuff isn’t so hard when I have people like you from which to learn. GREAT.