2009 Garden Vlog 1, Tomatoes, Peppers

Yep, it's that time of year again. I'm going to try and keep these shorter this year. I'm off to a poor start. Maybe I'll do better. But don't forget some of them last year were 20+ minutes.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Garden
• gardening
• tomatoes
• peppers
• spring
• mulch
• plant
• planting
• farm
• farming

[cooksterz]

genius fencing cage for the tomatoes! Now im gonna be on the lookout on my "junk day" for some of that! Great lookin mulch and smart to get it stocked up! I seeded in March and have great starters. Of course here it gets up to 90 so im earlier than you! I have a lil spot in the yard but nothin in comparison to yours! I just envy your space and your land! i dont envy the cold though! Super sonic! Wow - catching up with your garden stuff

[Blinkazoid]

I'm sure I'll have the enevitable tomato that gets wedged into the chain link as it grows, but I've got high hopes this will work out. I might also plant a couple of extra tomatoes in cages because I have so many. I wish the greenhouse I go to would have a "sampler flat" with 6 different types of tomatoes so I didn't have to buy 6 of one kind. I like to experiment and try different ones.

Cont.

[Blinkazoid]

It got down to 32 here on Friday morning. I pulled the plants out on Friday afternoon and watered them and they were looking great! I don't thing those Early Girls are going to be so early though. They're pretty tiny.

[jmaprins]

Hi Blinkie,

Love your garden vids! I have some pepper and tomatoe plants myself. Doing this for the third year now, after watching your video's! Problem this year are snails! Hate those b*sterds! There eating the young leaves. I already tried kat litter but that doesn't work when it's raining!

[Blinkazoid]

Thanks jmaprins! I've only ever had trouble with snails one year. I tried the deal where you put beer into small lids and place them around your plants. That does *sorta* work. (They crawl into the lids and drown) It didn't prove to the the total answer for me though. What actually worked for me was raking back all the mulch I had around the tomatoes to the bare ground. I had nothing but bare ground within a 3 foot radius of my tomatoes. That seemed to do the trick.

[dorotwhy]

I just thought it was like Styrofoam. It doesn't seem to dissolve. I think we need to go on a field trip. On second thought, I'm not certain I really want to know the particulars of vermiculite (it's probably hazardous to the environment AND people...SCARY thought) I know YOU are out standing in your field most of the time so a field trip might bore you.

[Blinkazoid]

Actually the vermiculite in potting soil has already once been heated.... which caused it to expand to 20-30 times it's original volume. I think it poofs up all at once sorta like popcorn. It would be interesting visit a factory to see and hear that process occuring.

[dorotwhy]

Just remember vermiculite  tends to sabotage the mud pies, unless of course you use it for sprinkles. It also may make for an uncomfortable spa treatment and well heating it... what DOES happen if you heat it... probably nothing. Anyway, I think its best all around to avoid the mud with the vermiculite and odds are during those dog days to come you'll be praying for some nice cold mud :O)

[randomwritings]

well that got me stumped - maybe you should bark orders at them and see if they twig that there is work to be done

[Blinkazoid]

The Mulchkins around here don't get along very well with each other and broke off into a bunch of different splinter groups. All of which are lazy layabouts who do little more each day than lounge around soaking up the sun.