Posted on November 1, 2009 by janedata
I just finished watering my front and back yards. The front looks fine, lawn is still green and my various bushes and plants are thriving. That’s the good news.
The bad news? My back yard had a combination of hits and misses.
The hits: Most of my roses (primarily hybrid tea) are standing strong (a few perished), [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2009 by janedata
It’s been a very odd year for my container garden. I finished tending to my garden chores for the day about an hour ago. Though I started planting my tomatoes, bell peppers, and jalapeno pepper early in the summer, most plants, especially the tomato plants, have been as slow as molasses to grow bigger or [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2009 by janedata
Ah, I remember the day I planted the seeds for this plant just mere months ago, and now one of my Green Zebra tomato plants is fruiting. This is the first in my large collection of 5-gallon containers that will all (hopefully) produce tomatoes. I’ve not seen this particular type of heirloom tomato in my [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2009 by janedata
My Black Krim tomato seedlings are plugging along nicely in their containers. Started from seed, these are the tomatoes that have been most successful in my garden in growing into seedlings, compared to other seed varieties.
In each container, I’d sprinkled multiple seeds, in hopes that at least one seedling would emerge. As shown in the photo [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by janedata
I transplanted several tomato seedlings today. I had 21 5-gallon containers to begin with. Although all were sprinkled with various heirloom tomato seeds, not all of the containers had seedlings. Some had multiple seedlings in their containers, others with only one, still others with none at all.
With a trowel, I carefully removed several seedlings and transplanted [...]
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Posted on May 22, 2009 by janedata
I’m happy to report on the progress of my tomato container garden started last month. Although it took a little bit longer than expected, a healthy 10 out of 21 containers show seedlings! Just another 11 to go!
HOW TO: What I’ve been doing is watering the containers 3 times per week, on the “flat” setting [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by janedata
I bought three 2-cubic foot bags of potting soil this afternoon. In the past, I filled six 5-gallon containers per bag, with each container filled near the rim. Today, I decided to take a chance, driven by my fondness for thriftiness. Filling the containers about 2/3 full, I was able to fill seven 5-gallon containers per bag. As you [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2009 by janedata
This weekend, I’m heading to a home improvement store to get a few bags of potting soil. From previous experience, each 2-cubic foot bag provides enough soil to fill six 5-gallon containers, a few more if I filled the containers less abundantly. I saved up several of these containers over the years, but may need [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008 by janedata
I know it’s probably quite early, but I threw caution to the wind and purchased several packets of tomato seeds today, for next year’s tomato container garden. Inspired by the miraculous emergence of tomatoes in my container garden in the winter (see the previous post), I purchased the following varieties of seeds: (1) Black Krim, [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008 by janedata
Indeed, it’s true! I was doing a little bit of weeding this morning and found that a very late-growing tomato plant (likely cherry tomato) is producing a few tomatoes! Click on the photo and look at the top center to get a better view of the lovely green fruits!
As reported in my posts earlier in [...]
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