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Also, I plan to make home made, from scratch spaghetti sauce and freeze it with any extra tomatoes and peppers, I'm so stoked!
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I am so proud of my little 6 X 8 foot garden!
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I have tried for the last three years to grow tomatoes and sweet peppers, but to no avail. I live in the hot Florida sun and believe me, there is a difference in the way tomatoes grow and fluorish down here than up North. Last year, the Florida sun litterally burned my upside down grown tomatoes. We planted in early April before the sun got so bad, and the actual plant was big, beautiful and bushy, but by the time the tomatoes came we only got a few, (maybe 12) off all 6 plants, and the next ones only grew to be the size of quarters or golf balls and cooked on the vine! This year, we planted a garden with filtered sun through the branches of trees and it is absolutely beautiful, lush and so far, out of 6 tomatoe plants that have just started bearing fruit, we have 35 almost ready to pick tomatoes, and three pepper plants one yellow two green bells we have eaten one pepper and have five that are almost ready! I am so pleased because besides, all of the fruits I have almost 100 white (from peppers), and yellow (from tomatoes) pretty little flowers all over my bushes! We built our garden this year out of painters drop cloth, concrete blocks and 60% top soil and 40% manure, and use Miracle Grow Plant Food and Seven Dust once a week to keep the bugs off! I tried to grow Georgia sweet onions in the holes of the concrete blocks, but the dirt got so hot in the small holes that they died. I am learning to be a vegetable gardner through trial and error (its like on the job training), but I have learned so much and had so much fun with my husband in doing it this way. We also planted some water melon seeds in the holes in the blocks, the vines have come out, and hopefully they will grow water melons when the time comes. I will let you know! Farmer J's
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GreenMomma
Sep 02, 2009
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n2beauty
Aug 09, 2009
hi i planted some tamatoes seeds. For the first time. there in there 5th week. lookin good so far. When will i see a tamatoe come about? and where will they start buding on the plant?
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irishgal49
May 29, 2009
i had holes in my tomatoes last year. was that from bugs?
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slambr
Jul 22, 2008
For Gloriana, What is the best way to pick a tomato? Take hold of the tomato, firmly but gently, and twist it until it snaps off the vine. If you prefer to cut it, just cut the stem close to the fruit.
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slambr
Jul 22, 2008
For Gloriana, What is the best way to pick a tomato? Take hold of the tomato, firmly but gently, and twist it until it snaps off the vine. If you prefer to cut it, just cut the stem close to the fruit.
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gloriana
Jul 16, 2008
I'm brand new to gardening of any kind, so I hope this question is not overly stupid. :) What is the best way to pick a tomato? Cut it off at a particular spot - pull it off the vine leaving the surrounding green intact?
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gloriana
Jul 16, 2008
I'm brand new to gardening of any kind, so I hope this question is not overly stupid. :) What is the best way to pick a tomato? Cut it off at a particular spot - pull it off the vine leaving the surrounding green intact?
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jd4irish
Jun 10, 2007
I have a two tamatoe plants and both of which have leave that grow more and more yellow. I know im doing something to much or too little but what is it? Please help?
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jd4irish
Jun 10, 2007
I have a two tamatoe plants and both of which have leave that grow more and more yellow. I know im doing something to much or too little but what is it? Please help?
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Nov 22, 2005
Pick tomatoes, put directly in a zip lock freezer bag, and freeze. Take out as needed and wash under warm water to remove skin. Thaw and use.
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Nov 22, 2005
I have found that I can put washed and dried tomatoes into a freezer bag. When I want "canned tomatoes," I put them on the stove with a little water and boil them with salt and a bit of sugar. The skins come off, float to the top to be removed with tongs.
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Nov 22, 2005
I have found that I can put washed and dried tomatoes into a freezer bag. When I want "canned tomatoes," I put them on the stove with a little water and boil them with salt and a bit of sugar. The skins come off, float to the top to be removed with tongs.
