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05-11-2005, 09:35 AM
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There go the tomatoes...
Planted my 'maters on Friday.
This morning, it's snowing. Power outages, car wrecks - and lots of dead gardens. An inch on the ground right now, but that's enough to kill 'maters. Oh well, that's Utah.
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05-11-2005, 10:07 AM
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I'm a little bit higher than you, denton. Bench temps may only be a degree or two colder than yours, but....
All I know is: I've been looking for the receipt for those "guaranteed" plants.
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05-11-2005, 10:38 AM
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Re: There go the tomatoes...
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Good luck getting those plants replace 
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05-11-2005, 02:38 PM
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Uh huh. Our average last frost date is May 15. But there's always such a rush to buy the most popular tomato type (Celebrity) that there are hardly any left on shelves by May 1.
I found exactly one left in a large garden store on May 6. I decided to plant five different varieties this year to see if any of them is as good as Celebrity. Naturally, it was the lone Celebrity plant that died first! Broken right over - must've been hit by a lump of snow falling from a power line. I can replace the others, but I doubt I'll find another Celebrity plant this year. So no "control" plant in my experiment, I guess. Gratsilfligulwapingpalligumtion!
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05-11-2005, 03:00 PM
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Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, I'm no gardener, but I think my fiance's uncle is on the right track. He starts growing his tomato plants indoors at the end of March/beginning of April. Should try doing the same thing and then planting them in the garden on May 15. Probably have a better chance of the plants surviving at that point.
Good luck.
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05-11-2005, 03:21 PM
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I put in 4 varieties, Rutgers, Marglobe, Better Boy and Roma. Rutgers and Marglobe are great slicing tomatos, nice and round with little to no hard core. Bette boys are bigger and sometimes odd shaped but work well for salsa, and Romas are great for sauces and canning. I am almost done planting all my seed. Hope to be done tonight. the list includes Tomato Cukes Peppers Green bell, sweet wax and Jalepeno radishes turnips (mostly for the greens) Squash ( yellow crook neck, zuchinni, and Patty Pan) Green Beans Watermelon Canteloupe Corn Lettuce Sunflowers Potatos I think that is it this year. Well anyway good luck on your tomato and the rest of the garden. I'll post a picture of the first vine ripe on I get.
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05-11-2005, 04:37 PM
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My garden is small, and borders a fence with a tree the other side of it - and that's the south side. So there isn't much room or sun.
I manage to get sugar pod peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach, a few pole beans, herbs and tomatoes out of it. This year, I tried one plant each of Celebrity (my favorite), Better Boy, Red Beefsteak, Yellow Pear and Roma varieties. I'm already eating the spinach, lettuce and radishes, and the edible pod peas are almost ready to set blossoms. Good stuff. I usually get one or two tomatoes by mid-July, but the bulk of them don't come in until mid-August. Last year, I was still picking a few (still not frost killed) after Halloween! When it's all done, I pull up everything, spread the summer's compost and till it in, then sow the spinach. It comes up and just bides its time under all the snow until spring, then POW!.
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05-11-2005, 08:20 PM
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A little change of strategy on our garden-- put in lots and lots of the new jumbo blackberries, plus a bunch of raspberries, including a new "mammoth" variety. Can't hardly kill the durn things, but can't keep ahead of the grandkids when it comes to picking them, either.
There is a new blackberry that gives plum size fruit... wife vetoed it, since the thorns are directly interchangeable with a K98 bayonet.
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05-13-2005, 08:46 PM
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I can't tell yet how many of my tomatoes are going to pull through. By this time, I would expect the dead ones to be black, and laying on the ground. Some of them are dark green in a few places, and peculiar looking, but definitely not black. A few look like they weathered fairly well.
Blackberries and raspberries... what snow? Fresh sliced raspberries on your hamburger???
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05-14-2005, 07:31 AM
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'maters
I'm with Rocky on the 'maters. Celebrity is my favorite also, same thing happened here. Mom's been down with a broken foot so I've been trying to get her garden in, was a little late with mine, all the Celebrity plants had been sold. Did manage to snag a few German pink, my wife likes those. The cold set some stuff back here but the cold wind hurt gardens the worst, wind burnt plants turn black the next day. Hope all y'all manage to salvage something, still a lot of growing season left.
PS check out a garden site,...gardenguides.com...I enjoy it a lot. best to you and yours... ears-
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05-14-2005, 08:50 AM
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I can't believe it, but they might all make it - even the Celebrity plant that got clobbered and broken by a falling snow clump. I did go out and put buckets on them, but they already had two inches of snow on them at the time, so I didn't have much hope.
But when I pulled the buckets off yesterday, they were all limp but green. A day of sunshine and they are all perky again today. Unbelievable.
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05-15-2005, 04:19 AM
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fellas i used to plant them as early as tax day around here NC blue ridge foothills my dad and i usually have a contest to see who gets the first red one off - reason i tell ya this - now i start mine out in a small greenhouse and transfer but i have figured out that unless someone grows in a pot and brings in at night - thats cheating by the way lol - everybody usually gets there first ones off at the same time - unless it stays warm at night the tomatoes wont grow and usually a cut worm or the wind breaks them off right at the top of the ground - so if you feed them good and plant after it starts warming up at night then you cant go wrong even if your neighbor gets the first red one- cold set is usually the first to turn here and that celebrity is hard to beat but if you like a good average tomato canning or sandwich then the old tried and true marglobe is the one for taste -have had trouble finding them in the last few years but for seeds i found a lot of old varieties here www.rhshumway.com and rocky buddy i dont know how i would ship them to ya but if you need some plants you cant find let me know - i will be more than glad to send ya whatever you needed - that would make me smile - i know it can be done because gurneys and others ship plants somehow - i usually plant a dozen or so varieties then a couple new ones just to see how they are - gardening i guess is my second hobbie right under punching paper
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05-15-2005, 09:14 AM
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...callin' for frost here tonight...
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