What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

So how many seeds are too many??

How many seed orders are too many?

I’m asking in the wrong forum, aren’t I? You will enable me, I just know it.

Orders in with 3 companies, plus the fruit tree order. Thinking off placing two more orders with two more seed companies.

 

[WthrLady]

OMG there's no way. POUNDS of tomatoes sauce down to a jar. A few tomatoes can juice down to a jar. How big is their jar? LOL And only 70 days to maturity for that large of a tomato??? I'm not buying it.
So plant a few, see how they like your soil and climate! They might be gangbusters for you, you never know.
I try to plant a variety each year of each type, since you never know what's going to work with that years weather.

 

[Sally PB]

I use tomato fertilizer from Gurney's but I also plant every tomato with an unbroken egg.

The shell for calcium... what does the rest of the egg provide? I'm going to guess nitrogen from the protein...?

Amish paste never reach maturity here.

Yeah, they are a 90 day tomato, and they need every one of those days. One of my gardens is in a bit of a valley, and has frost later and earlier than the one on the hill. It also has cooler nights. So the garden on the hill is where the tomatoes are.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners to cold to think planting .. Had always done early girl and big boy .. Last year my tomato did squat. did the egg trick nothing

 

[NewBoots]

My favorites so far have been San Marzano for paste, black cherry or sweet 100 for cherry, and Firecracker (determinant) or Early Girl for slicing. That said, I make sauce out of all of them and salsa with most of them.

And @Acre4Me, /pat pat, we're here for you, you can never have too many seed orders, some might get lost in the mail and then you'd be short of seeds.

@Elyrian1, that is a beautiful cutting board!

 

[DParker75089]

The shell for calcium... what does the rest of the egg provide? I'm going to guess nitrogen from the protein...?

Egg shells are remarkably stable, and will not break down and release any significant calcium into the soil unless they're ground to a fine powder and the soil is acidic, and even that takes longer than 1 growing season. An unbroken egg isn't going to provide any measurable calcium to the soil for a long, long time...as in many, many years, if ever. This is one of those folksy gardening myths that sort of sounds good in theory and gets repeated by click-bait articles, but does not work in reality. It's just a good way to waste an egg. Eat the egg and grind up the shell to a powder for addition to your compost pile where it will eventually do some good, some day.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Egg shells all go in the compost here

 

[BReeder!]

to cold to think planting

I try to think warm thoughts.

Honestly though, I'll be starting tomatoes and peppers indoors in just 6 or 7 weeks. This worked great for me last year so I'm doing it again this year. 10 weeks indoors and then outside as large transplants. I'll up pot them a number of times going from starters to 4" and then 6" pots. I have a whole shelving unit setup with LED grow lights and heat mats (might get a few more mats this year though) that cost me about $200 to construct last year, but it really worked well. I wanted to grow other edibles indoors in the Fall and Winter too with this setup, but didn't get around to it. It would pay for itself already if I did though.

 

[wyoDreamer]

@BReeder! It's not too late to start winter edibles, they'll be spring edibles instead, lol.

 

[Sammster]

Consider San Marzanos for sauce...if you can grow them. I tried them last year and they were both prolific and delicious.

Definitely - if our greenhouse starts them. We don't have the equipment or space to start them, but really love plum tomatoes ♡