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GARDENING
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Tomatoes
Tomatoes Tomatoes
Back by popular demand.
Greenlizzy's tips on raisin' tomatoes
Most families need only
a few plants.
Buy plants, rather than grow them from seed.
Buy healthy, green plants 6-8 inches tall. |
Set out tomato plants
after all danger of frost has passed.
That is when the temperatures are above 55 degrees
at night. |
GreenLizzy sprays the plants with fungicide
shortly after planting and every 2 weeks after.
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Greenlizzy always sets the plant on its side.
This way it can grow more roots. |
| Plant the transplant slightly
deeper than it had been growing |
Tomatoes need at least
6 hours of sun per day |
Avoid the common mistake
of overfeeding your tomatoes. .
Add too much nitrogen (N) and you'll have a big,
lush plant with very little fruit.
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GreenLizzy always sprinkles
a little Epsom salts around the transplant.
This is a wonderful organic fertilizer,i.e. magnesium |
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are two kinds of tomatoes. |
Determinate
plants grow short and bushy, and all their
fruit ripens at once.
Try Roma, Amish Paste or Olpaka |
Indeterminate
tomato plants are tall and vinelike.
They need stakes. They have a longer, fruiting period.
Some of the popular indeterminate tomatoes are Early
Girl, Better Boy, Big Beef, and Lemon Boy. |
| If staking or caging plants,
space about 3 feet apart |
 Is
a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?..
see end of page |
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Many experienced tomato growers
pull off the first flowers,
so the plant does not devote energy to forming
fruit before its roots and foliage have filled
out.
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To prune, or not to prune--
pick off all the suckers--the sprouts that come
up dead center between two main vines.
Then you can plant more tomatoes in a smaller
space. You will need to stake them.
However tomatoes not pruned will do just fine
left to sprawl.
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"Harden-off"
your plants to the outdoors a week or so before
planting.
Leave them out in
the sun for a few hours each day and a bit longer
each day.
This helps them survive by toughening
them to the weather.
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Healthy
plants get tied to a stake
Plants lying on
the ground are more susceptible to soilborne diseases.
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Tomatoes require high amounts of magnesium.
Pennsylvania
tends to have calcium-rich soil, add lime early to the
soil. It takes a few months to take effect. |
Stay
out of the garden when the vegetable plant leaves are
wet.
Walking through a wet garden spreads disease from one
plant to another.
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What
do you get when you cross a canary and a lawn mower?
Shredded
tweet.
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| Out
Black Spot |
If your roses suffer from 'Black Spot' disease,
try this natural solution.
Mix up the following ingredients with 1 gallon of
water:
1 tbsp of baking soda
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 tbsp of Ivory Dishwashing Liquid
Spray it on your rose bushes once a week during
the season. |
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Whether you are fixing up
an entry area or a secluded backyard retreat, your garden
needs a focal point.
The point of your patch!
a bench, a chair,a pond ,a fountain... something that
draws people to it
There are many superstitions linked to weeds.
For example,
if you hold a buttercup under your chin and a yellow shadow
appears, it means you like butter.
Or, finding a four-leaf clover brings good luck.
And if you touch a dandelion you will wet the
bed!
The French word for dandelion is Pissenlit, which
directly translated means 'Wee in bed'. |
What do you call two young married spiders?
Newly webs.
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Clematis
likes its feet cool and its head in the sun
Add some mulch and sprinkle lime on its feet..
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answer: |
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a
tomato botanically is a fruit, but the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled in 1893 that a tomato could be ruled
a vegetable because it is eaten with a meal like
other vegetables.
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You've
got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your
grandfather was
Irish
Proverb
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Concentrate all your thoughts
upon the work at hand.
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham
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 To
"age" new garden statues, smear with natural yogurt.
Algae will quickly cover them |
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Common Gardening tasks require no Power Tools.
Weeding, Staking, Deadheading & Observing we can do ourselves.
Relax and enjoy your Garden |
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| Every calendar's days are numbered. |
 Hummingbird
nectar |
4 parts water to 1 part whitet sugar
Heat, stir and allow the mixture to cool |
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 To
get the hottest hot peppers in town, you need
to flood them shortly before harvest time.
This stresses the plants’ roots, which then send out a signal
to "turn up the heat."
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If you are planting morning
glories nick the hard shell with a pair of nail
clippers then soak the seed in water overnight.
Plant the seed the next morning.
This technique will help soften the hard shell and help the
seedling quickly get of of its shell.
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Tidy
up your hostas. Snip off the spent flower stem.
