Tomatoes

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Comment by PiscesGirl on June 6, 2009 at 3:25am

I had the same experience as you, Chris. My Marglobe came back from the dead! Thank goodness I was too busy/lazy to pull it after I thought it had bit the dust. ;-)

Comment by chris w on June 6, 2009 at 2:31am

As always I get too anxious for spring or run out of the room for starts because I started too many and as a result plant too early..... This year the tomatoes went in the ground about three weeks before the last frost, I was covering them everynight... One night the temps dropped into the twenties, and a couple of the plants near the edge of the cover died. Or so I thought. The leaves were dead and there was only spindly kinda green spikes sticking out of the ground. I was too lazy to pull them out, and I'm glad I didn't because they are growing again!

Comment by SaraBClever on May 27, 2009 at 12:27pm

If you're curious about the history of tomatoes in the US: http://www.landrethseeds.com/newsletters/Latest/Current%20Issue/Garlic.html

Comment by Thomas Roy Lantis Sr on May 27, 2009 at 8:10am

I don't have very good luck with container gardening. I am fortunate enough to have a small ell shaped garden that is fun and plenty of work. I too have lettuce and some onions for salad although I like to just pull one and eat it. When the produce is young like it is this time of the year the flavor is milder and the "fruit" is tender. My peas havent started podding yet. There are several green strawberrys about the size of the end of your thumb.

Comment by Michelle W. Flannery on May 26, 2009 at 10:27am

Yes Thomas, gardening is great! In each growing season, there is always something new and wonderful to discover, even as long as I've been doing it.

I've been harvesting lettuce from my container garden this week. It took only two days for one of the roots I'd left in the pot to sprout!

Comment by Thomas Roy Lantis Sr on May 26, 2009 at 10:00am

Michellle, thank you for replying to my "accidental scientific" experiment. Several years I have had plants grow from seeds in the compost. In this case, however, the chopped off roots each grew a new plant. I can't be sure yet until I grow some new seeds and chop them to see if they will grow. Isn't gardening great?

Comment by Joy Williams on May 25, 2009 at 9:12pm

No problem, Jessica :) hope we all can help each other.

Comment by Jessica Soulliere on May 25, 2009 at 8:46pm

Thanks for the invite!

Comment by PiscesGirl on May 25, 2009 at 3:29pm

Awesome Maxine I would love that! I'll send you an email to work out the deets. ;)

Comment by Michelle W. Flannery on May 25, 2009 at 12:11pm

Thomas, sometimes tomatoes don't need all the "work" we go through in order to survive and thrive. Many decades ago, when I was a child and my father was still a fledgling gardener (he grows the best tomatoes now!) he couldn't get tomatoes to grow well at all. But down in the pig pen, where we threw the kitchen scraps... the tomato plants were flourishing! Boy, them pigs was happy pigs!

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