Busy Morning

bigpinks · May 18, 2015

My half runners didn't come up in the hot dry weather so I drove about 12 miles to a seed and feed for new seed. Found Pine Bark Mulch at Lowes to make the 5-1-1 for some containers later. Also found 6ft oak stakes for 1.25 ea and bought 24. Returned home and re-tilled and lightly fertilized and re planted the half runners, about 35 ft row. Staked my Cherokee Purple plants which are about 12" high and have taken hold and are growing nicely. Only leaves 47 Bear Claw, Estlers ML, Hillbilly, Big Beef, Choc Cherry and Italian Ice. Plus 5 or 6 stakes for the bean trellis. There are 20 big pinks, 18 yellow/red, 15 Cher Purple, 7 Big Beef and two ea of the two cherries. Also have kohlrabi, green onions, Bell and sweet bananapeppers, eggplants and cukes. Love this time of year!

whistech · May 18, 2015

I love Mortgage Lifter tomatoes and I will have to remember to start a few seeds this winter. You are really going to be busy!

wormgirl · May 19, 2015

Woo! So productive!

Gardeneer · May 19, 2015

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Originally Posted by bigpinks

My half runners didn't come up in the hot dry weather so I drove about 12 miles to a seed and feed for new seed. Found Pine Bark Mulch at Lowes to make the 5-1-1 for some containers later. Also found 6ft oak stakes for 1.25 ea and bought 24. Returned home and re-tilled and lightly fertilized and re planted the half runners, about 35 ft row. Staked my Cherokee Purple plants which are about 12" high and have taken hold and are growing nicely. Only leaves 47 Bear Claw, Estlers ML, Hillbilly, Big Beef, Choc Cherry and Italian Ice. Plus 5 or 6 stakes for the bean trellis. There are 20 big pinks, 18 yellow/red, 15 Cher Purple, 7 Big Beef and two ea of the two cherries. Also have kohlrabi, green onions, Bell and sweet bananapeppers, eggplants and cukes. Love this time of year!

Good tomato list and impressive quantity too. I am growing.
Other tha tomatoes you are also growing lots of good stuff. I am growing some peppers too, from mild to wild super hots.

I also buy pine bark mulch from Lowes for 5-1-1 mix.

The oak stake ( 6ft @ $1.25) sounds like a good deal. Are they 1 by 2 ?. But , though oak is a very had wood, the part driven into ground will rot easily. I get cedar lumber and rip them and make my own stake. But my cost is more than $1.25, I think. But they last at least 2 seasons, maybe 3.

wormgirl · May 19, 2015

I have only recently noticed how overpriced stakes are!!!

MrsTwigg · May 19, 2015

That sounds a little bit like my Saturday this past weekend. I found out the hard way that there is space for only so many bags of mulch in an SUV (am used to using my husband's truck for mulch runs, but he recently sold it so it's bagged mulch or nothing for me from this point on).

It's great to have a productive garden day. I am busy looking after my young daughter at home today, but I did have time to run outside this morning and plant a few melon transplants while she slept. It's important to fit it all in as best you can, you know?

And good luck with your runner beans! I tried those one year and unfortunately gave up on them, on account of them failing in the heat/drought. The sugar snap peas I put in this year haven't done much better, but at least I do see some pods forming (on stunted plants about 16 inches tall--they look so silly around the bases of the tall trellises I optimistically put up for them earlier this spring).

bigpinks · May 28, 2015

yes the stakes are approx. 1x2". If I am patient and wait for wet ground they pull easily and last two three yrs but I do get impatient and break some off in the earth. If I had it to do over I would have spent the money on re-bar. Expensive outlay but its one time and you are fixed forever.

May 18, 2015	#1
bigpinks Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: SC Ohio(proctorville) Posts: 192	Busy Morning My half runners didn't come up in the hot dry weather so I drove about 12 miles to a seed and feed for new seed. Found Pine Bark Mulch at Lowes to make the 5-1-1 for some containers later. Also found 6ft oak stakes for 1.25 ea and bought 24. Returned home and re-tilled and lightly fertilized and re planted the half runners, about 35 ft row. Staked my Cherokee Purple plants which are about 12" high and have taken hold and are growing nicely. Only leaves 47 Bear Claw, Estlers ML, Hillbilly, Big Beef, Choc Cherry and Italian Ice. Plus 5 or 6 stakes for the bean trellis. There are 20 big pinks, 18 yellow/red, 15 Cher Purple, 7 Big Beef and two ea of the two cherries. Also have kohlrabi, green onions, Bell and sweet bananapeppers, eggplants and cukes. Love this time of year!

May 18, 2015	#2
whistech Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Between The Woodlands and Spring, Texas Posts: 553	I love Mortgage Lifter tomatoes and I will have to remember to start a few seeds this winter. You are really going to be busy!

May 19, 2015	#3
wormgirl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 245	Woo! So productive!

May 19, 2015	#6
MrsTwigg Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Maryland Posts: 47	That sounds a little bit like my Saturday this past weekend. I found out the hard way that there is space for only so many bags of mulch in an SUV (am used to using my husband's truck for mulch runs, but he recently sold it so it's bagged mulch or nothing for me from this point on). It's great to have a productive garden day. I am busy looking after my young daughter at home today, but I did have time to run outside this morning and plant a few melon transplants while she slept. It's important to fit it all in as best you can, you know? And good luck with your runner beans! I tried those one year and unfortunately gave up on them, on account of them failing in the heat/drought. The sugar snap peas I put in this year haven't done much better, but at least I do see some pods forming (on stunted plants about 16 inches tall--they look so silly around the bases of the tall trellises I optimistically put up for them earlier this spring).

May 28, 2015	#7
bigpinks Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: SC Ohio(proctorville) Posts: 192	yes the stakes are approx. 1x2". If I am patient and wait for wet ground they pull easily and last two three yrs but I do get impatient and break some off in the earth. If I had it to do over I would have spent the money on re-bar. Expensive outlay but its one time and you are fixed forever.