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10 day forecast in the NYC area shows some chilly temps and lots of rain. I would only plant out if
i was running out of room storing plants. Best to wait as you have nice looking plants and not so many. Yes, you can/should add some soil to your pots. You can pinch of the cotyledons, the lower little leaves. More roots will form on your newly covered stems. You will want to plant them that deep anyway so might as well give them some rooting head start.... (nice yogurt, little granola, fresh fruit, mmm good) |
May 4, 2017 | #287 |
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Welcome to the jungle....
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May 4, 2017 | #289 |
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Awesome - simply Awesome !!
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May 5, 2017 | #290 |
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I guess awesome at least! Beautiful Cole! Had 8" rain here in Central Indiana and some due tonight and tomorrow. A lot of corn and bean fields flooded etc. Looks like your pretty plants are anxious to get out of there to market and plant. I will wait a few days and look out 10 days to see if i dare plant ( i have only 220 plants with 40 spots) i am just a retired guy who eats a lot of toms - prob give plants to neighbors and friends.
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May 5, 2017 | #291 |
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Thanks, guys. And yes, they definitely need to go soon. Osmocote Plus works a little too well. I should have stuck with the regular Osmocote flower and vegetable to give the plants more shelf life. I had one customer take about 120 plants today. Hopefully, I will sell a little more than that at the next market. My own garden will get about 250 more, and then I am going to stock the community garden in my town with whatever they will take.
I have to get rid of a lot of those tomato plants to make more room for my sunflowers: |
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May 5, 2017 | #293 |
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Gotta warm a bit too, down in lower 30's coming up - to "scart" to put 'em in too old to run and cover for frost. was out in palm desert - down to salton sea to look at veggie fields in 3/15/2017 nice veggies! Salton Sea is weird place Cole, i'm in zone 6 (a or b ??) as you are 6, you decided on a plant out date or, like me just waiting it out?
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May 5, 2017 | #294 |
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Cole, i hope you sell as many as you WANT? to sell! I am going to have to repot some of mine - out growing their media - first time grower might get lucky and keep pushing my luck?
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I'll be glad to get information about your sunflowers. Do you grow decorative varieties people will plant in their gardens to enjoy very big flowers or are they grown to harvest the seeds to feed farm animals or for oil ? In that case don't farmers sow them directly in the fields ? |
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May 5, 2017 | #296 |
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These are mine. Some got leggy since I don't have growing lights. I'll plant them deep and they will be fine.
Our last frost date is in 10 days but we haven't had frost since 10 February. I 'll start hardening them off. Thanks, Marsha and Lindy, a lot of these seedlings are growing here thanks to you. INDETERMINATE - CHERRY Piccolo/Honingtomaat F6 Fruit punch Supersweet 100 F1 Aurantiacum Sun gold F1 Snow white Rose Quartz multiflora Raisin vert / Green grape Glossy rose blue Dancing with smurfs Reverend Michael Keyes Barry's crazy cherry Rebel Alliance INDETERMINATE - COCKTAIL / SALADETTE Brandy sweet plum Stalactiet Artisan green tiger Artisan blush tiger Artisan Sunrise Bumble Bee Artisan Pink Bumble Bee Artisan Purple Bumble Bee INDETERMINATE - SALAD Green zebra INDETERMINATE - BEEFSTEAK Liguria Costoluto fiorentino Reisetomat / Voyage Azoychka Orange Russian Malakhitovaya shkatulka Lithium sunset Rebel Yell Wes Purden's purple Solar Flare INDETERMINATE - PLUM Speckled roman Hohloma / Khokhloma Prue CURRANT TOMATOES Currant sweet pea Currant gold rush White currant Spoon Tomatito de Jalapa Solanum spontaneum DETERMINATE Sprite Tigrette Arbuznyi Yellow pear DWARFS AND HANGING PLANTS Tumbling tom Red Robin Last edited by Ann123; May 5, 2017 at 04:30 AM. |
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I think I see Tumbling Tom and Red Robin, bottom right. They're all beautiful Ann, nice job. Not many potato leaf varieties, is that by design? I lean to them and found them less finicky in my climate, some gardeners say they're sweeter.
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May 5, 2017 | #298 |
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Bottom right are indeed the red Robins.
It is the first time I have potato leaves but indeed not a lot of them. If they are easier (and sweeter) I'll grow more of them next year. Thanks for your friendly words. |
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May 5, 2017 | #300 |
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Great looking plants Cole! Very impressive. You must be happy with this season so far.
Hope you get nice market weather this weekend. Looks like you will have sunflowers blooming by MothersDay. Good timing. The dwarfs have such broad canopies. I had one beauty TeddyBear bloom just after the NewYear with a perfect leaf spread of at least 10 inches and only about 5 inches tall. Nice healthy plants Ann. Off to a good start. -i grew dwarf sunflowers all winter as a test for a children's urban gardening project. Nice to have fresh potted flowers the past snowy months. I have a leftover tray like Coles i'll use as a bedding planting somewhere. The large varieties i plant in thick long rows outside my fenced garden as a deer deterrent/distraction. They usually buffet on maybe 10-20%, Birds get their fill, and i have plenty left to save seed for the next year.... |
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