On June the 8th hurricane Adrea hit our area and our garden got between 6 and 8 inches of rain, During the next week or so we got another 4″. After we got al…
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Question by David: On very young tomato plants should I remove flower buds until they get bigger?
I am worried they will not continue to grow if they start to produce fruit now, of my 20 or so tomato plants they are only 18 to 24 inches tall. Should I let them be or remove the buds so they continue putting all energy in to growing?
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Answer by Adam D
i would leave the buds on
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LOL…. just push it toward the camera while you’re standing back. That’s
All is well here, but getting pretty dry. We’ve missed the
the oldest trick in the book. It turns a 3 pound bass into a 10 pounder
every time.
rain the last few times a front has come thru. Only getting light showers.
But the 80-85 degree weather sure is nice ! Thanks.
There is actually a crabber working his crab line in front of the cottage.
He set the traps about 10 days ago so maybe there are some crabs where we
are. All of the rain has made the water too much like fresh water and the
crabs have stayed down river nearer the bay.
Last year we kept just enough water on the garden for it to stay alive
until in cooled off a little and they started setting fruit again. Two
tough years back to back.
You made me LOL at that comment! Very interesting. I love to fry my green
tomatoes. Ohhh myy I could just sit & eat a plate of those. I do mine a lot
thinner than I have seen in most restaurants in the south. But a preserve
would be neat to try. Did your Mom or ya’ll ever make Watermelon RInd
pickles? I never have & would like to try that as I have heard some great
things about them. Of course, I would like to make mine Hot & Spicy! lol
Sorry too see that same here in South Carolina
Same thing with rain here in IN, west end. Last year, we couldn’t get dew
at night and ran the well dry. This year, plants are dying from root rot.
That sucks! I have plenty of drainage, too much even, but it doesn’t matter
cuz the deer ate all my tomato plants.
I met a couple in Utah when I was up there~just like you & your bride. They
had the same set up in front of their house with a sign & vegetables. I was
blessed with being able to pick free Concord Grapes in their yard.
Beautiful vines!! I made THE BEST grape jam!! What a blessing! The
Strawberry Fig Jam is the easiest! I have a video on making some. Figs,
Strawberry Jello, sugar! Done. And everyone loves it! Was the Tomato
Preserves made with the Ripe or green tomatoes?
Paula: It has been a tough year for gardening. At least the sun is out a
lot more and we are getting just enough rain to help with the watering. Our
problem was we had too much rain all year and then to have the extra amount
on top of that didn’t help. We will just keep plugging. Getting ready to go
to the river for the weekend. At least we only have a 45 to 50 minute
drive. Your drive to your cabin is a lot longer.
Raise beds really help when you get too much rain but need to be watered
more because the water seeks its own level even with the surrounding soil.
We use to have 516 sq ft of raise beds where we live and were very happy
with the results. We were french intensive organic square foot gardeners
until we started using this 1500 sq ft garden and became organic slightly
intensive row gardeners.
I worked really hard at it and my crops have been dying.I have gotten a
little discouraged at it..It has been storming so much here in N.C. We got
flooding today. .Is any one else havin trouble with stinkbugs? I do pray
and I am thankfull for what I do recieve. Thankyou for listening,Darlene
Tim: Everyone is singing the same song this year about the weather. I know
two people who have lost almost all of their tomatoes. I offered them some
plants I had left and one says he might pick some up and try again.
RedBerry: We are getting about a quart every three days of cherry tomatoes.
In a few weeks is will a lot more now that the pollinators have arrived. We
gave away some regular and cherry tomatoes and cukes today to two of our
neighbors. One told us her friends garden is way behind and is not
producing very well yet. We had better harvest during the drought last year.
Darlene: Everybody is in the same boat this year. Most of my comments tell
the same story. I haven’t seen a pick up in stick bugs this year. It is
raining right now but we can use the rain. It has been a tough seson so far
for everybody.
SAD, all your hard work and time. I sure hope the weather corrects itself.
I had to break up the soil also so that the roots and rains had some place
to go. Your garden sounds just like mine this year. It started rainning in
late January and it was too wet to plant sugar snap peas and our onions. It
has been a tough spring and eary summer. When it wasn’t rainning it was
cloudy and cooler than normal. We were a month late putting in the garden
because it was just too wet to plow. Maybe we will have a late frost this
year.
Yes that is all so true! My daddy’s garden is having the same problems
also. I know the tomatoes & cukes ya’ll shared with the neighbor was
certainly a blessing to them. I love sharing my produce & canned items with
neighbors & friends also. I managed to put up 6 qts, 12 pints & 6 jelly
size jars of figs, 20 jars of Strawberry Fig Jam & froze some figs also.
And 2 different days, it poured hard & I lost about 10 gal of figs from
them splitting & souring. But I am blessed with what I have.
Going back into the vault on this one and my hard drive is almost full. I
would think they were made out of green tomatoes because you could see the
slices in the preserves. I would think ripe tomatoes would not do this. I
did a search and I am not the only one looking for this. It did jog my
memory that there were lemon pellings cut into strips in the preserves.
Whether my mother used cinnamon or pectin is unknown. I know she water
bathed them because the jars were not sealed with wax.
Lark: It is the poorest garden I have ever grown, but there are good signs
that it is slowly turning around. We were just about a month late this year
putting the garden in because the soil was to wet to work. We will have to
settle for 4,000 tomatoes instead of 8,000 this year. Even in the farmers
markets the tomatoes do not look as good as like they usually do and they
are mostly undersized. They are getting $1.99 a pound for them because they
are not as plentiful as in previous years.
I have lost a few tomatoes as a result of the rain this year….we continue
to have an unusually cool and wet summer here in Texas….I have seen the
dead roots in most all the plants I have pulled up this year…
I’ve got soil very similar to what you’ve described. Doesn’t get that hard
unless we have no rain for a long time.Spring gave us 6 weeks of constant
rain and very low temps that killed half of my garden. Then 2 weeks of good
weather and everything took off. THEN 4 weeks of no rain and highs temps.
Started raining 3 days ago and I was out there with my pick and hoe
breaking up the dirt in the hope it would help to soak in and not run off.
Bobby: I have a picture of me with a 20″ pike and it looked huge in the
photo if you don’t notice my arm held out straight out. We have had to
water the garden at least twice a week lately. We have had about 1/2″ in
about 10 days. We might have gotten a little Sunday night according to the
radar after we came home. I can do a lot more work when it is in the 80’s
mainly because I don’t have to keep wiping the sweat off my face every 5
minutes.
You would think.
imstilworkin: Getting ready to drive to the river and saw your comment
before I cut off the magic machine. We tried trenching and it was not worth
all the work. I can live with almost normal size tomato plants. We will
still get more than we need. They are a big difference from last year. You
have to throw the clumps up against a brick wall to break them up. Even the
rain won’t break them down during the season. I always bring up a few
clumps when I plant my tomatoes. Squash have no fruit ZERO!
Karl: I picked cherry tomatoes today and over 25% were split. I wish I had
stuck with the Sweet Millions Cherry tomatoes this year. They don’t split
as bad as most cherry tomatoes and still taste great. We have planted them
for 20 years. MY bride wanted to try the SS100’s we use to grow this year
and it would have been all right without so much rain. Our Romas are
ripening and the tops are still green. We have not picked any yet. I hope
they will make the tomato sauce my bride was hoping for.
They’re right on schedule, leave them on. Your plants will continue to grow.