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!
Showing posts with label tomato plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tomato plants. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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 the article.
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 method from A Piece of Rainbow.
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 here for the article from Live, Laugh, Farm.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Tomato Plants: 10 Gardener Mistakes
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Prune tomato plants for a healthy productive crop
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 my tomato page for my website, DonitaWorld.com.
Check out my updated tomato page if you are growing your own tomatoes this season. I love visiting websites to get inspiration and great tips on how to grow the best tomatoes possible.
Click on the graphic to go there . . .
For Florida gardeners and those who live in similar
climates, check out my Florida page too.
I'm so excited about getting my hands in the dirt again!!
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 the seedlings are big enough to transplant, they need to be grown in containers so they can be moved inside in case of a prolonged freeze. We may just leave the containers in our carport area where they are protected. It is worth a try to get a jump start on the growing season. The containers are currently sitting out there empty . . . and seeds are relatively inexpensive.
Time to order seeds!
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 still putting out limes like crazy. After waiting so many years for it to produce fruit, it was almost like JR was sending a message that he is smiling from heaven as new love bloomed and a new life has begun with my new husband, The Captain.
The grasshoppers invaded the Paradise with a vengeance . . . and they are still here. Honestly, I don't know how anything survived as they devoured and chewed up leaves of most of our plants.
We managed to get some tomatoes from our tomato plants, but all in all, that endeavor was disappointing. Guess we started too late for optimum performance and didn't start them from seed. They were not super healthy from the start and the grasshoppers put a dent in fruit production despite our attempts at spraying with our organic concoctions. They were pulled up a few weeks ago :(
We did grow some awesome hot peppers that have continued to produce those hot and spicy treasures. Hot pepper plants are one thing that we have been able to grow with no problem in our area . . . they thrive!
The basil is barely making it . . .
the rosemary didn't last long, it died a quick death.
However, it has been a summer of health problems, in and out of hospitals with several members of the family and we got married . . . gardening became a low priority as the heat and humidity rose and health problems made it impossible to spend quality time in the garden.
We look forward to better health, cooler temps and quality time to start over again soon . . . especially with tomatoes, peppers and herbs. Hopefully we will finally make it to the back yard that was Paradise turned into a jungle littered with fallen limbs and weeds the summer storms encouraged. However, since most of the world has experienced devastating weather, we are grateful that we are still high and dry in Paradise.
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 . . .
Mumsey's Magic Mix
1 handful bone meal
1 handful cornmeal
1 handful cornmeal
1/2 handful powdered milk
1/4 handful epsom salts
Mix well in hole, plant tomato.
Side dress every few weeks or so
with the cornmeal and powdered milk,
watered down or not . . . the rain will soak it in.
Side dress every few weeks or so
with the cornmeal and powdered milk,
watered down or not . . . the rain will soak it in.
I've posted these links before, but here they are again ~
If you need information on how to grow your own tomato plants, Fine Gardening has an awesome video series covering various topics. Click here to go to their tomato page.
And if you haven't checked it out yet, click here to go to my tomato links page.
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 you can never have too many tomatoes!
If you need information on how to grow your own tomato plants, Fine Gardening has an awesome video series covering various topics. Click here to go to their tomato page.
And if you haven't checked it out yet, click here to go to my tomato links page.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
