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Gillian

tomatoes grown too close together

I know that I planted my tomatoes too close together, and have supported all six plants in one huge mass with posts on four corners and s...

Started by Gillian

16 Aug 3
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Michelle W. Flannery

Tomato Late Blight

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) -- Late Blight Hosts: Many plants in the Solanaceae family are susceptible to late blight, including t...

Started by Michelle W. Flannery

5 Jul 21
Reply by Leah
Roxana

Support preferences

How do you support your tomatoes?! Stakes, trellis or cages? What do you find best and why? Willing to share your secrets?! :)

Started by Roxana

12 Jul 18
Reply by Glenn Fletcher
Katherine Turcotte

Your Experience with Black Krim and Green Zebra Tomatoes

Hi! I bought two new varieties of tomatoes this year - the Black Krim and also a lovely looking Green Zebra - some research on my own sho...

Started by Katherine Turcotte

4 Jul 1
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SaraBClever

Do you need to prune tomatoes?

As I said in my immediately preceding post, this is my first time growing tomatoes. I have just seen something about "pruning" tomatoes o...

Started by SaraBClever

9 Jun 30
Reply by Marian Worley
Roxana

Watering tomatoes

How Often?! What should be the guide lines to know if they have enough water?!

Started by Roxana

4 Jun 22
Reply by Roxana
Kay Robbins

Tomato Loving Squirrels

My poor tomatoes have survived the torential rains, grasshopper attacks and now I have a new problem. Something keeps taking one or two b...

Started by Kay Robbins

1 Jun 16
Reply by SaraBClever
Roxana

To prune or not to prune

Do you prune your tomatoes?! How often? Do you remove suckers and leaves or just suckers? Do you let them grow bushy?! Lots of questions ...

Started by Roxana

5 Jun 14
Reply by Johanna Greenberg
SaraBClever

Weird flower buds on tomatoes?

Three of my four tomatoes are starting to set buds and flower. The fourth one, Mr. Stripey, has not. Instead, it has one massive bud that...

Started by SaraBClever

5 Jun 12
Reply by SaraBClever
Michelle W. Flannery

Curly Top Disease

Curly Top Disease of Tomato Causal Agent: Beet Curly Top Virus (BCTV) Hosts: Tomatoes, beans, pepper, spinach, beets, and cucurbits. Sym...

Started by Michelle W. Flannery

48 Jun 10
Reply by Karen Stavert
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

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I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

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HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

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