Will Pill

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Hmmm... thats actually a really good idea. Two problems... my current plants are infected with sepotoria from a bad plant from a bad man, trying to sanitize. Also, they are pink fang and mortgage lifters, I need romas this time, lol. Maybe a garage tent.
1 year ago
Thanks. Question, when you over winter the peppers, did they do better the second year than the first, or had you wished you started with seedlings again? I have about 25 pepper plants of various types, debating whether or not to save all or some for next year.

I'm not really trying to make the tomatoes survive winter, trying to make them thrive winter. Or maybe just take my chances outside over the next 3 or 4 months... less work and money out there... maybe I can use hydro fox farm fertilizers (that seem overly branded) to speed them along. If I do that, think I would use 5 gallon growbags and cut holes in the bottom for the extra root room.

Maybe it's futile... maybe I should just go buy some romas from kroger and wait till next year, I could see this going south with a kitchen full of 40 tomatoe plants, lol.
1 year ago
I grew giant tomatoes this year, septoria ravaged them buy still got a crop, mortgage lifters and pink fangs, they grew taller than my roof, fell over in bad winds a few times... now they are about done. 12 plants, really only made about 6 jars of tomatoe sauce, but dam it is good.

So now it's August... I dont wanna stop... I wanna to more!

I start 40 San marzano and romas in my kicked from seed Monday. I know winter is approaching but what are my options?

I'm in cumming Georgia and it's been a hot year, maybe it won't freeze till January. Maybe I can grow outdoors.

I was also considering my garage. Do I buy a tent system? How big? Maybe there is some kinda giant cart that holds 20 plants, that I can roll into the garage at night when it gets cold. Should I use 5 or 10 gallon growbags? How can I do better on tomatoe cages, maybe less of an issue in the garage? How do I avoid septoria, one plant I bought spread it to everything.

These are my thoughts, any help or guidance,  even "your nuts" will help, lol. Figure I have 2 to 4 weeks need to get the seedlings in the pots. Still learning, never grew indoors.
1 year ago
Appreciated. Yeah, I see there are real tradoffs, ill see more after my first vegetable garden in 30 years is complete. I'll let these guys grow more, and watch out for top heaviness, trim them if the get heavy... I should have used bamboo for the cages, 6ft.

Shouldn't have used wheat grass... tearing that shit up now, trying to kill as many seedlings as I can and laying down pine Park, should take the day.
1 year ago
Thanks guys. Still a tough call on this one. Maybe ill let the sucker grow and then top the sucker when it's a good size to stop the grow and focus back on the main. I thought about doing this on the bottom to replace yellowing leaves, but couldn't find anyone talking about the approach... seems your the first, but seems best option... get something out of the growth I wasted without letting it just go forever.

These are Indeterminate mortgage lifter... I suspect they will get huge.

Few other related questions.
- once you cut off ripe tomatoes, how/where do they grow back... I hear Indeterminate sprout all year, I just want to make sure I don't  ut the wrong thing during early harvest to prevent that.
- any tips for dealing with the massive green carpet of wheat grass now growing in my 50 container garden due to hay mulch? I might rip it all up and put down coconut coir. So stupid, never using hay or even straw again. Was better with nothing.
1 year ago
See screenshot. They are at the top, they seem to V equally. I know 3 other gardeners... 2-1, don't remove it is current winner.
1 year ago
I have 50 grow bags, all kinds of vegetables with companion plants. How did I do 2 days of research, settle on Wheatgrass, and not know about the seed problem... such expensive positing soil I'm using, was seed free... good knows how long I'll have to deal with this. A carpet of seedings... a lot of work, tough with companion plants... everything was going so well... never use wheat grass.
1 year ago