Urgent Tomato Thread!

[InletBchDweller]

all I know is that I have a delivery of creole maters coming my way via crazy cajuns visiting in sowal this week. and it feels like christmas!

I called Alli from the festival to see how many you wanted. I am sorry we never hooked up.

Glad you got some on the way....

 

[CPort]

I GOT MATERS! Yip! I sprayed them (and the squash, beans, cucumbers and okra) for bugs this week, and treated the maters for blossom end rot. I threw away all the rotten ones (not a pleasant job, but I did have some help on that one ) so they wouldn't infect each other. Now the plants are beautiful, bug-free, rot-free, and full of nice little green and red maters. Hooray!




Wait a minute...I don't even like maters. Why am I so excited?:scratch:

what's the best thing to do if you have end rot??

 

[NoHall]

what's the best thing to do if you have end rot??

You can buy chemicals to treat it--it is some sort of deficiency in the soil that causes it. Last summer when Dad was out of town I went to the local hardware store and bought something or another (I honestly don't remember.)

But when Dad came home he said that the drought was causing it. The logic was that the nutrients that would prevent the end rot were in the soil, but there was no water to carry them into the plant. Apparently he was right; when we had some rain the maters cleared up.

So, if you have plenty of water and still have end rot, check with your local garden center or extension agent.

HOP-- I asked Dad tonight if we would have maters to bring you, and he said that we would probably only have cherry tomatoes. We had some late cold weather again this year, and the plants didn't get going in time. He said that they're usually good by the 4th of July, but that he doubted it this year.

 

[InletBchDweller]

I forgot how funny this thread was...

yes it is!! I HAD to revive it b/c I just picked and ate my first tomato of the season!!

OMG, so sweet! White bread, toasted, mayo on both sides of the bread, salt, fresh ground pepper!!

I was going to take a picture of it but I ate it instead!

 

[InletBchDweller]

ok, how to keep the birds from eating my red tomatoes??? anyone???

 

[Hop]

yes it is!! I HAD to revive it b/c I just picked and ate my first tomato of the season!!

OMG, so sweet! White bread, toasted, mayo on both sides of the bread, salt, fresh ground pepper!!

I was going to take a picture of it but I ate it instead!

ok...now i have to have one!!!:leaving:

 

[Matt J]

ok, how to keep the birds from eating my red tomatoes??? anyone???

Go to Home Depot and ask what they use over their bird seed. It's kind of a netting, but you might have to free a bird or two.

 

[InletBchDweller]

ok...now i have to have one!!!:leaving:

ok, come visit. I picked 5 today~!

Go to Home Depot and ask what they use over their bird seed. It's kind of a netting, but you might have to free a bird or two.

good thinking. I bet pretty much any type of net would work. I will check it out...

 

[NoHall]

Just thought you 'mater lovers would be interested in this:

My dad planted his usual patch of tomatoes in my back yard this year--about 20 plants. But when I came home one evening after he had been working, there was one in a hanging basket at the end of my clothes line--upside down! He had cut a small hole in the bottom of a plastic hanging basket and planted the tomato in the bottom so that it hung down.

I'd seen stuff on t.v. about hanging plants upside down, but never expected my traditional father to attempt it.

Anyhoo-that plant is huge. It's about twice the size of the ones he planted in the ground and it already has blooms on it. I asked him today if he did anything different (other than the obvious.) He said that he used Miracle Gro soil in the pot, but that he also used Miracle Gro soil when he planted the ones in the ground. He waters the hanging plant more often (daily) because it is more prone to wilting. I assume that's because the pot gets hotter than the ground.

Truly amazing. I am curious to see what happens with the tomatoes. I'll post pictures if I can get my pucking camera to work.

 

[Matt J]

Skunky has to go name brand and has the topsy turvey (sp?). :roll: