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[Alan Brice]

Good Mother Stallards and a store bought orange bell pepper.

[Lynn Dollar]

In spite of a tornado early on, my tomato plants are coming along well. They've set a lot of fruit. Will be having my first BLT in a couple of weeks.

Plants were in the ground about a week, when there was an F0 tornado 7 blocks away. We got some really strong wind gusts from it. Winds threw the tomato cages all around the backyard. My plants were around a foot tall and day after it looked like they weathered it well, but I think the cages rolling around damage the stalks on quite a few plants. They were very weak and could not stand up without a cage. But they've mended and are now coming on strong.

[SheilaAnn]

Not only did I call out the wrong pit master, I posted in the wrong thread. Let’s try this again! Purc they bloomed again!!

[Purc]

Beautiful. They bring back fond memories. Thanks for sharing and remembering.

[SheilaAnn]

I’m going to try and propagate the next leaves I prune off.

[randy.56]

Sheila's flowers reminded me how much I enjoyed gardening in my retirement. Here is a few pictures.





These are lemon cucumbers, if you have never had them, your missing it.

Better boy tomatoes'




Just a few of our pots.

[Thunder77]

Today’s garden bounty!

[RonB]

My tomato production has been dropping for a number of years. I think that the trees around the garden contributed as well as the diseases the persist in the soil from year to year. You are supposed to rotate tomatoes yearly, but after 40+ years, there is no uninfected place left. After a dismal year last year, I told myself that this year could be the last if I didn't figure something out.

After some online research, I decided to try trellising tomatoes this year after discovering that the diseases my tomatoes get can overwinter on the metal cages I have been using the whole time I've had a garden here. There's a bit more to this than I have included, but I'm gonna add a link to the video that helped.

What irritates me is that the plants I bought were mislabeled, and I didn't get the variety I always plant. They taste and look different. And they aren't as good as what I have been growing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZLNMLwwKCc





Here's the system.



And the hangers.




And the largest tomato so far.

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[Alan Brice]

Yep, I see them now. I have Monster Pots, a fibre 6-8 gallon individual pot I can start fresh soil n plants every year. The GMS seem to like them.

[RonB]

Alan Brice - I have used that type of pot in the past hoping to control the disease, but they didn't work, so I stopped using them. If I had realized it was the cages, I'd probably still be using them, and I may switch back to them next year.

[SheilaAnn]

We found (this was a few years ago) that if we do a small crop of fava beans, then follow with tomatoes, the tomatoes love it! Apparently favas leave behind lots of nutrients for the tomatoes. Your climate mileage may vary 😀

[MBMorgan]

Once again, it’s looking a lot like Genovese basil season:

… and now it’s time to stock up on pellets for the pizza oven.

[CaptainMike]

It's definitely basil season out here. My GF is making pesto by the gallon right now!

[Alan Brice]

Good Mother Stallards, maters, peppers, n Banana palms. Don’t forget the green peppers from one store bought then sprouted the seeds.

[Panhead John]

Can I bring Karen with me? ……..🥸

[Alan Brice]

Only if she drives.

[Panhead John]

😵💫…….😂🤭