Year 2004
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Trying again this year (2004) see below for year
2003
Made a few changes as you can see. Chose Super Bush to keep the height low
but trunk strong.
Fruit has good taste and size is medium to large - no giant size.
Used top soil and time release fertilizer in soil and sprayed M.G. every 7
days on vines.
Varmints were in neighbors garden so I placed dollar store $1 per box moth
balls
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Complete Garden |
In Buckets |
In Bath Tub |
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Bath Tub |
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So, what have I
learned this year?
Stick with tomatoes only.
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Tomatoes must have more sun time than this little garden has.
.only have about 4 hours. They just will not get ripe fast without plenty
of sun and can not dry out with all this rain.
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Squash needs about 2 foot on all sides including down. [Checked
neighbors garden]
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Cucumbers need about same as squash. [Checked neighbors garden]
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*The
lady said she cut a plate size hole in a 50 lb. bag of potting soil, punched a
few holes in the bottom side for water drainage and planted a tomato plant. It
was several days after Martha told me this story that I started craving a vine
ripe tomato. I found the price of tomatoes at that time to be about $2.00 per
lb. at the local market.
I went to the feed store and
picked up a 25 lb. bag of potting soil, not 50 lb. because I was still thinking
about the price of tomatoes, and a package of tomato fertilizer.
As you can see from the pictures
above I tried to improve on the 50 lb. potting soil idea. I figured that city
lady has nothing on me. At the time of the vine pictures the tomatoes are
very small and green but was I ever glad Martha heard the grocery store tale.
The
25 lb. bag of potting soil with 2
plants (as the story was told it was to be 50 lbs
and 1 tomato plant) produced over 40 big ripe tomatoes and still going. I just
now at this writing saw blooms and several small tomatoes coming on. At
the same time I counted tomatoes on this 25 lb. bag plants - I only counted 20
on all others put together (four plants) that I planted at the same time in
baskets, etc. as shown in pictures above.
I also tried cucumbers in a 4
legged tall sink but two plants only produced about 6..but they were very good.
Found a dried black eye pea in
the fertilizer and did it ever make a big beautiful plant. It got too big and
was starting to hurt the tomato plants in the mobile pic above so I had to pull
it up. Now, they could have made a few pods but not a mess.
Tried two yellow squash plants
just to see what would happen - but they only grew big and pretty plants with
beautiful blooms that fell off after a day or so. I think they would just
not be fooled in to thinking they were in the good old ground.
One can not all ways improve on
what you hear at the grocery store. Next spring I am going to get about 10
each 25 lb. bags of $.99 potting soil, some of that M.G. fertilizer and place
near an automatic sprinkler that I turn on from my back door.
At $2.00 a pound you might wish
to do the same. By the way the tomatoes grew bigger than they were
designed for because they all had small stretch marks at the top...just made it
taste better.
Please don't write for the recipe
because my wife said I needed to design more web pages and not spend so much
time watching my tomatoes grow...so...I will be too busy to answer all your
email. 
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