Lasagna Garden update #10

[1994buttons]

Take your unripend tomatoes, put them in a paper sack and close then every few days check for ripened tomatoes. I live in Utah and some years I end up having to do this with lots of tomatoes because of a shortened season. You can use a box too, but just make sure the lid stays closed. Good luvk next year!

[kris51586]

Spinach needs a lot of nitrogen to grow well, I'm guessing all the nitrogen was taken out by the earlier plantings and there wasn't anything left for it to grow on.

[cwaj]

Bald or empty spaces...................Have you tried add in compost to the soil. every two weeks? Not a lot, just turn in some.

Potatoes. Grow in Peat moss, compost, and vemiculit. Soft easy soil.

[cwaj]

Bald or empty spaces...................Have you tried add in compost to the soil. every two weeks? Not a lot, just turn in some.

[jeannamilner]

Hum, I would wonder if that little plot of land was infected with some type of GMO product. Just my 1st thought while watching this video.

[twomiracles]

The tomato blight may have hit you because there isn't a lot of space between the tomatoes to ventilate well and get them dry after a rainy spell..It helps to go out and gently shake the plants to get them dry faster. Or pick some of the leaves off to give more breathing room to the plants? Just an idea ..

[Michigansnowpony]

@twomiracles -- It was epidemic last year. Even folks raising tomatoes in upside down containers got hit with it. I guess conditions were just right AND the local authorities thought it was present in some nursery stock that went all over. This year, I raised all my own tomatoes from seed and no problems (different weather too). I'm growing my Romas on stock panels for support which is working out well.

[sgaucoin]

Pruning and pinching off of the tomatoes might help with better air circulation and help avoid blight. Some people advocate removing most of the tomato leaves once the fruit has set on the plant. This will, they say, encourage better fruit growth (energy goes to the fruit instead of growing leaves). We use chard like spinach for cooking.

[VivianRinSC]

I know it's too late but green tomatoes make for an excellent relish. You can make relish from anything or pickle them. :)

[ivankinsman]

We got the same blight in Poland as well - think it is 'potato blight' so affects all the same genus family as potatoes. We might try these yellow tomatoes next year. Swiss chard looks v. nice. Do you spray with insectiside for critters and also fungii? We do.

[Michigansnowpony]

Sorry Ivan -- just saw this comment / question! No, I don't spray with anything, but I'm not a "purist" when it comes to gardening organically. So, if I have a big problem, I'll spray. From what I understand, once you have the blight, there's very little you can do.

[tequilasmom43]

For some reason when I was trying to watch your Lasagna Garden Update #10 the video kept pausing and having these little dots going around in a circle. I'm trying to find all the active gardeners on YouTube that I can. SleestaksRule is great and now I'm about to look at your Lasagna Garden #9.

[ivankinsman]

The video problem is to do with your internet connection speed or maybe there are a lot of users online slowing down the service. Try at a time when people are not on the net!

[littlemouseshouse]

wow. that is so sad. i have it to and most of mine were starts from the green house. and my valonteer toms r doing fine as well.

[Michigansnowpony]

That's interesting. . . I am definitely going to start all my own plants next year. I've been wanting to do that anyway for a long time.

[Wivanunu]

You should really start adding lots of toxic chemical and pesticides to your garden...then you'll have a great outcome! Just kidding :)

The best tomatoes I ever grew were in 1989 I think. When I was in highschool I got some of the tomato seeds that had been in space for a few years. They must have been on the space station. I was lucky enough to get some seeds that had been bombarted with radiation. Sounds real safe! Anyway...they grew into awesome fruit producing plants.

[Wivanunu]

I've had something in the past that looked like this. My plants looks great and then Bam.....I was so mad!! Then I had 1 or 2 good years and it happened again.

[Wivanunu]

Oh no!

[tburke64]

Same symptoms here in Washington state with a nice long hot summer. I don't think it is the weather.

[tburke64]

AND all of my roma tomatoes I started myself and looked wonderful until they began to produce fruit, which came out small and with very few seeds inside.

[Michigansnowpony]

Were they open pollinated or hybrids?

[tburke64]

I am not sure. They were seed from Botanical Interests. They claim heritage seeds, so I am assuming they were non-hybrid.

[Michigansnowpony]

Could be -- but I think moisture does play a part. Have you had a wet summer?

[tburke64]

We had a dry, hot summer, but I faithfully watered nightly.

[Fadedflower37]

We got that blight hear in my area of NY. It was our first time and I was very unhappy.