Garden

[thawhacker]

I’m late just put my stuff in the ground yesterday

[dixiedeerslaya]

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[huntinghagen#12]

We have a small garden (3 elevated boxes and pots). We took a chance and planted a few weeks ago, plants were popping up and looking good ... It dropped below freezing one night and killed everything but the butter lettuce and radishes off. I replanted last weekend, forecast doesn't show the weather dropping below freezing so I think we'll be good. Plenty of rain and intermittent sunshine, and temps in the 70's next week, should help up here.

[DoubleSprig]

First 2 zucchini’s picked last week. (Cocozelle)
Every couple days getting sweet peas but they starting to get powdery mildew pretty bad.
Lettuces starting to bolt, about to yank them.
Kales and other greens are exploding.
Potatoes (reds, yukons, and purples) starting to yellow out and should be ready in 2-3wks.
The early variety tomatoes are putting on small fruits now.
Green beans flowering good, but no pods YET.
Spaghetti squash have long vines and a few flowers but no fruits yet.
Watermelons got about 2feet of vine now, no flowering allowed this soon.
Pinched back pepper tips last week at about 12” tall to encourage more side growth.


ETA - I started early from seed and gambled getting starts in ground in early March

[2thDoc]

some people are eating cherry tomatoes and I am jealous.

tomato people: do you pick suckers like crazy? or just when you feel like it? if you see a big sucker (think pencil size) do you still cut it?

and since my garden is so much cooler than HS' and is putting out so much fruit, would I have larger tomatoes if I culled some? each pod of fruit usually has 6 or 8 tomatoes a bit smaller than a tennis ball. I am thinking about culling some while green to make the others grow? is that correct thinking or not?

[Highstrung]

you can come and see what I do.. or I could tell you. maybe

[JimmyD714]

I always pick the first several suckers and first group of flowers I see. That's supposed to result in a more productive plant down the road.

But if you research it you'll find 100 different answers to your question so who knows. I guess you have to try different things on each plant and see what results you get. Probably has more to do with the dirt and irrigation than plucking suckers.

Last year we grew beefsteak tomatoes for the first time. They're supposed to be on the larger size. I did as mentioned in my first sentence and the result was we got a lot of tomatoes per plant but they weren't as big as expected.

This Summer my dirt is much improved and we're growing them again, started from seed. Right now they're about 10" tall. I'll pull suckers and early flowers and report at some point how they did.

[2thDoc]

i dont do google
and not sure i'm allowed in the shire yet...


examples.

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[JOHNSON]

I’ll cut suckers when I get bored. Sunday I cut fruiting suckers off one plant just to see if it made a difference.


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[Highstrung]

I worked on a farm for a little bit one summer.. My first job was suckering tomatoes. hours upon hours and days of going down this vast strip of tomatoes popping suckers. I'll pop them off of some plants and leave others, simply to get more out of a plant, then others I'll pop spunks off to grown larger. I just play with it.

[Boduke]

Suckering is still better than staking and stringing. Talk about a shoulder workout

[JimmyD714]

I'm gonna experiment with it this year. I've got 3 beefsteak plants, 2 better boy plants. I'm going to pluck every sucker I see on one of those beefsteaks for the entirety of Summer and see what the difference in size and number is.

[Highstrung]

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[2thDoc]

i swear
the best cherry tomato out there and you cant focus for shit

but thats a beautiful cherokee purple plant and cage

[DRDUCK]

Those yellow one's are delicious!

[Highstrung]

i swear
the best cherry tomato out there and you cant focus for shit

but thats a beautiful cherokee purple plant and cage

Haha, that one is something else.. my Cherokee purples aren't in cages, and too special to be amongst others

I say that, I do think there's on in that bunch

[Highstrung]

But not that one

[Highstrung]

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[MolliesMaster]

Not sure I want a german johnson sandwich.

[Highstrung]

The sun sugars, I've teased like the rest of my tiny tomatoes, they're growing across the back and across the wire

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Then all of my Cherokee purples, lemon boys, stripeys, early girls (not that early) and the rest are the same size

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Then some black cherry small ones, I'll tease those out like the rest, they'll take up ten feet on each side of my corners along with the sun sugars.

That ugly short tomato is a tidy treat, they're nappy and bushy, I planted two of them, and unless they're outrageous when I eat one, I won't grow another, but I swear I have fifty little tomatoes on them

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