Have a great invention to help with gardening? Are you the self-reliant type that prefers Building It Yourself vs. buying it? Share and discuss your ideas and projects with other members.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Western Ky
Posts: 282
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![]() After 40 or 50 years of marriage, all you will see is her shaking her head as she walks by you with the car keys in her hand. I hope you're right and wish you good luck. Ken |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 645
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Burpee's Porterhouse F1.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Of The Border
Posts: 1,169
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a "Condo" bargain priced at Chernobyl (52 pound koi with three eyes are included)
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
Posts: 3,893
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A home in a POA or HOA.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: N.C.
Posts: 1,827
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Burpee's Porterhouse!!! LOL
![]() I too was a sucker for it!! Don't think i got two tomatoes in two years!! Greg |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Missouri
Posts: 407
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I was offered once ocean front property in Kansas for $1000 an acre, but I did not have the money at the time. Guess I missed an operunity of a life time there...
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
Posts: 38,539
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Saw this at tractor supply today.
Do people have no shame? The bag said top soil. ![]() Looked like clay and sand to me. Worth IMG_2014032359941.jpg |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Missouri
Posts: 407
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At least its free range!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Posts: 2,593
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: northern new jersey
Posts: 683
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: northern new jersey
Posts: 683
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After seeing how the Florida weave method works.. Although I may still use some of the ones I own for small heirlooms .. I think I will use inexpensive but more efficient 2x2 stakes and twine FOR MY BIG plants.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Pilot Hill, Ca.
Posts: 307
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Well...I'm not gonna walk up to them and give a squeeze to find out but if I did, I'd get it on camera.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: California Central Valley
Posts: 2,543
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However: I needed a short hose for one of the community gardens that I could carry with me. Hoses really get trashed there, and the hose bibs are odd -- they point up instead of down. (I got an attachment for the hose bib to take care of that.) All of my hoses have come from freecycle or from someone leaving them at the garden in the free area, but my coil hose got a leak (either from being out in the weather, or from someone else using it <grrr>). So I got a 25 ft. "shrink up" hose at Ross for $5 and so far it's working out well. No complaints! |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
Posts: 1,332
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I actually do use those flimsy metal tomato cages. (most of mine are 54", I think? with a few 48" and 42") They're not bad for dwarfs, small determinates, and peppers. They certainly aren't enough on their own for the big indeterminates.
However, since I stupidly bought a holy ton of them one year, some imagination and cheap fixes had to be explored. I connected the end of two rows of them to my metal fence and then firmly attached them to each other with zip ties on three sides. Reenforced that way, they are surprisingly sturdy. They were completely covered with huge plants last year and none of them fell apart. (Although I eventually had to trim the plants back because they were sprawling out of the top and running back down all over the place.) Not saying that the advice to avoid them and buy something better isn't valid. It is! But just in case anyone out there is as dumb as I was, I'd like to let them know that they might not have completely thrown away all of their hard earned money. Zip ties are magic, people!! ![]() |
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 4,488
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Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture |
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