Showing posts with label tomato plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tomato plants. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Tomato and Pepper Plant Pruning

Little things make a big difference when growing tomato and pepper plants. This article covers one of those important things . . . pruning your plants. Check it out! ...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Help Your Struggling Tomato Plants

This has been the first year we are not growing tomatoes or peppers.  There is still so much to do around here! Having a problem keeping your tomatoes healthy and thriving?  The following is an excellent article on the solutions to so many tomato growing problems. Click here for...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

How to Root Tomato Plants

One of the easiest ways to multiply the number of tomato plants in your garden is rooting them.   And your new plants are free! Back in my days of growing lots of tomato plants, I would root them by using Rootone and planting directly into the soil or containers. Click here for another...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

More Gardening Tips and Tricks

One of the things that I love about the internet is gardening benefits through other gardeners sharing their tips and tricks through their blogs. Today I ran across an excellent article with some great photos for vegetable gardening inspiration, along with tips and tricks that you may find useful. Click...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Tomato Plants: 10 Gardener Mistakes

Taking a line from an article in Plant Care Today, birds and insects find tomatoes as tasty as we do! Love this informative article on growing tomatoes . . . click here. ...
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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Prune tomato plants for a healthy productive crop

Proper pruning can be an effective practice for producing strong and productive tomato plants. Click here for an article from Old World Garden Farms on how they prune their tomato plants. ...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

We are gearing up for the tomato growing season and waiting for our seeds to arrive in the mail.  Although we should have started growing the seedlings mid-January, it is better late than never! As the Captain and I have done research on growing tomato plants, I have been updating...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Growing tomatoes in winter

Although we experienced our first night of freezing temps last night, my thoughts are on starting tomato and pepper seeds early this winter.  It has been a mild winter for us in Zone 9 Florida and I've done it before, but it has been a long time since I experimented with this theory.   Once...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Summer Reflections

Another summer has come and gone . . .  Paradise still remains like a jungle. Of major note . . . the lime tree that was a memorial gift from JR's aunt when he died started producing very tasty and juicy limes that we have really enjoyed in cooking and sharing with others.  It is...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Growing Tomatoes . . . soil additives

As an organic gardener, I'm always looking for tips from other gardeners who have successfully used what some would consider off-the-wall methods for maintaining healthy tomato plants. The following mix has been used by several gardeners  on the Organic Gardening website forum ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Want to grow your own tomatoes?

Although we got a late start, we are enjoying tasty tomatoes our tomato plants are putting out. In the past, we have been able to grow our tomatoes all year long, which is what we are setting out to do.  There is nothing like picking your own tomatoes off the plant for dinner . . . and...
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