/johnny
“Did I mention that my fall tomatoes are budding and blooming? The ones I have left, anyway...”
I have 8 Mortgage Lifters in pots well over a foot tall, and the trunks are filling out to be strong. They are in potting soil mix so they are getting fertilizer and I have Jobs tomato spikes fertilizer to add at a certain time and I don’t remember when that is - I think it is to be added when they begin to make tomatoes. Need to read the package to make sure.
I have found this gardening is an every day thing if you actually keep up with it to make sure it works. Doing this experiment to see if these plants have enough time to produce before winter weather will tell me whether to do this again or not.
I know it sounded nuts to plant seeds under the grow lamp in the middle of the hottest part of Texas summer when plants outside in the ground would cook in this heat, but the plants are now out there in containers and they get shade in the hottest part of the day as shade comes to that part of the deck then.
Outsmarting Texas killer heat is a talent I had to acquire if plants were to survive.
I will keep at this until I get it right.