The Bucket Farm 2009

[newatthiskat]

Looking great Ted! They sure are comming around.
Kat

[amideutch]

Looking good,looking good. When are you going to tell them about your secret ferts. Ami

[Zana]

Looking Good Ted!

Glad to see somebody else who knows the benefits of a "container farm".

I think my record is somewhere around 130 plus containers. Even I thought I was crazy, but I wasn't going to toss all the seedlings I couldn't give away. And I had a ton of volunteers that I just "had" to find out what they were.

Good luck with your container farm and may your harvest be bountiful!

Zana

[ContainerTed]

Thanks, Kat.

Ami, you know, this year I just might have found something. Time will tell.

Dear Zana. I hope you have a wonderful growing season this year.

Ted

[clara]

Ted, I envy you for having already such a lot of fruits!!! Every day, I'm looking at my plants for the first fruit - till now a lot of blossoms, but not even a tiny little fruit... and I'm very curious which variety will produce the first one!

Have a great gardening year! clara

[veggie babe]

your glamour shots are nice you've already had a great season, but we always want more

neva

[Barbee]

Looks great Ted! Which do you think will be the first to ripen?

[ContainerTed]

Originally Posted by Barbee

Looks great Ted! Which do you think will be the first to ripen?

Well, I already have 4 ripe Tiny Tims, but for the rest it will be a close call. I think it will probably be one of the early varieties I got from Andrey. Mini Gold, Belyi Naliv, and Zagadka are coming on fast.

Ted

[Barbee]

It's so hard to wait for them to ripen! I always go buy 2 or 3 packs of bacon at fruitset

[newatthiskat]

Barbee that is great positive thinking!

[PNW_D]

ContainerTed,

just came across this thread - don't know how I missed it ......

could you provide a wrap up of the varieties that worked/tasted best on this grow out - more pictures would be great too

[ContainerTed]

I gave high marks to almost everything, except Berkeley Tie-Dye, New Yorker, and Opalka. However, those will get a new evaluation in my NEW LOCATION here in Tennessee. I'm still unpacking and additional pictures will be available if and when I get to the box that has that CD in it.

High points were Azoychka, Black & Red Boar, Golden Cherokee, Huge Black, Rozalinda, Golden Dwarf Champion, Agatha, Kimberley, Liz Birt, Goose Creek, Mountain Fresh, and Utyonok. The rest were very good to okay.

The best of the peppers was Corona Bell. Sweetest I've ever tasted. Apelsin, Pritamin Paprika (gogosari), and Fooled-You Jalapeno were also great. There are many posts on a couple of forums about my adventure with "Corno di ... Holy Krap!!!"
I saved more than 100K seeds, canned about 28 quarts of sauce, froze about 14 pints of salsa, and also froze about 50 lbs of tomatoes, 10 pounds of sweet peppers, and 3 dozen tomatillos. Been eating on them all winter.

Sorry to be brief, but I'm right in the middle of sewing my 2010 seeds - two 72 hole flats down, 2 more to go. I do from 2 to 4 seeds in each hole. It makes them easier for me to transplant. With the new location came a new "in the ground" garden, so I'm doing more than 100 tomato varieties and about 30 different peppers. Also, there will be several different beans, carrots, onions, cucumbers, corn, okra, and radishes. Wow, from containers occupying a small footprint to more land than I need for a garden. I see a lot of work just ahead.

Hope this answers your questions

Ted

[PNW_D]

thank you for the quick response Ted - and I can relate - re 'the box with the CD' - moved last November and our entire linen closet is now filled with various music, movie, camera, back-up, etc. data disks

so no more containers

[newgardener_tx]

Hi Ted, What kind of mix do you use in your container? Your pot looks like regular pot. I have a lot of 5-15 gallon pots and a lot of extra plants. Do you feed the plants very often? Thanks for the information.

[ContainerTed]

Originally Posted by newgardener_tx

Hi Ted, What kind of mix do you use in your container? Your pot looks like regular pot. I have a lot of 5-15 gallon pots and a lot of extra plants. Do you feed the plants very often? Thanks for the information.

I use a soil-less professional potting mix. Yes, those are just regular containers except for a few SWC's. 5-15 gallon containers are just right for dwarfs and determinates up to the largest indeterminates.

I watered everyday except when we had rain. Fertilization happened when I felt the plants needed it, but for the most part it was frequent, low-dosage Miracle Grow crystals with two treatments of some 10-10-10 granules simply spread on top to soak in.

Ted