Tomato Growing Season Has Started - Page 2

vermiit · March 17, 2009

Ami, that's a beautiful little valley you're in! Lots of sunshine I see, on the top of the rise! Very cool set up!

amideutch · March 17, 2009

BOB, The top of the cage is secured to the fence as well as the top of the 5gal pots with tie wraps. Ami

sprtsguy76 · March 17, 2009

Wow that is some serious scenic landscape there, just beautiful. I've heard people say that Germany is beautiful, the proof is in the pictures. Are the bottom of those pots in the ground cut out?

Damon

amideutch · March 17, 2009

Damon, The pots are just sitting on the ground attached to the fence as my previous post described. Ami

**nctomatoman** · March 17, 2009

Time to transplant! About 3000 tomato seedlings ready to leave home and learn to live by themselves!

sprtsguy76 · March 18, 2009

Boy Craig looks like you have alot of work there. Those are some dense seedling trays there. You plan on untangling each one?

Damon

**nctomatoman** · March 18, 2009

Yep - check out the Dense planting thread, it explains how I do it. I've started my plants this way for the last 10 years - I can transplant about 100-150 seedlings into 4 inch pots per hour. They come apart easily (tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are tough little buggers!), and I have a 99 plus percent success rate at growing them on to healthy plants.

amideutch · March 18, 2009

Looks like Craig is going to loose his parking place and basketball court for awhile.

Ami

**nctomatoman** · March 18, 2009

Yep...an annual event! Basketball pole was taken down. So just a bit of a parking squeeze!

kerry.heafner · March 19, 2009

St. Patty's Day, 2009. Seeds of Costoluto Genovese, Chocolate Cherry, Gold Currant, Matt's Wild Cherry, Pink Brandywine, and Money Maker sewn! Days are getting warmer here in northern Louisiana, but nights are still kind of coolish. Here's hoping.......

Thawley · March 23, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by nctomatoman

Yep - check out the Dense planting thread, it explains how I do it. I've started my plants this way for the last 10 years - I can transplant about 100-150 seedlings into 4 inch pots per hour.

I would love to see a video of that. Can you tell us more?

I used your method this year with great success – but I was pretty slow at transplant time. I kept thinking to myself "there's no WAY the commercial growers are this slow – they'd go broke." What I am I doing wrong?

the999bbq · March 24, 2009

hej Ami, why are you planting them in pots along the fence there and not directly into the ground ?? I only have my peppers in pots because they stay smaller that way (so that I can try out more varieties without having to throw away too many fruits) and I can move them in the greenhouse when they are in the way (which they are ... a lot, silly tomato addiction of mine ...)

March 17, 2009	#17
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	BOB, The top of the cage is secured to the fence as well as the top of the 5gal pots with tie wraps. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

March 17, 2009	#19
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	Damon, The pots are just sitting on the ground attached to the fence as my previous post described. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

March 18, 2009	#22
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	Yep - check out the Dense planting thread, it explains how I do it. I've started my plants this way for the last 10 years - I can transplant about 100-150 seedlings into 4 inch pots per hour. They come apart easily (tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are tough little buggers!), and I have a 99 plus percent success rate at growing them on to healthy plants. __________________ Craig

March 18, 2009	#23
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	Looks like Craig is going to loose his parking place and basketball court for awhile. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

March 18, 2009	#24
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	Yep...an annual event! Basketball pole was taken down. So just a bit of a parking squeeze! __________________ Craig

March 17, 2009	#16
vermiit Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: z 14, California Posts: 137	Ami, that's a beautiful little valley you're in! Lots of sunshine I see, on the top of the rise! Very cool set up!

March 17, 2009	#18
sprtsguy76 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Santa Clara CA Posts: 1,125	Wow that is some serious scenic landscape there, just beautiful. I've heard people say that Germany is beautiful, the proof is in the pictures. Are the bottom of those pots in the ground cut out? Damon

March 19, 2009	#25
kerry.heafner Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: West Monroe, LA Posts: 40	St. Patty's Day, 2009. Seeds of Costoluto Genovese, Chocolate Cherry, Gold Currant, Matt's Wild Cherry, Pink Brandywine, and Money Maker sewn! Days are getting warmer here in northern Louisiana, but nights are still kind of coolish. Here's hoping....... __________________ Kerry

March 24, 2009	#27
the999bbq Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 191	hej Ami, why are you planting them in pots along the fence there and not directly into the ground ?? I only have my peppers in pots because they stay smaller that way (so that I can try out more varieties without having to throw away too many fruits) and I can move them in the greenhouse when they are in the way (which they are ... a lot, silly tomato addiction of mine ...)