Your 2026 Garden

[pollipazzi]

This is so cute!

thank you! it's a pain to paint. i hope it lasts a while.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

The roots and flowers are what you make the tea from The Roots have stronger medicinal properties but the flowers tend to taste better so most people do a mix

I was sure that you knew that, lol. I was worried the person asking about it might not.

I did not know about the leaves, so that is useful information! If I can get them going I will probably use the leaves, so I can donate the seeds to the seed library.

 

[Molpet]

Oh what a bad influence you were on me!!!! I went to check out your seed calendar and ended up ordering 30.00 worth of seeds. Or maybe you were a good influence, they were all medicinal seeds so look at all the money ill save on doctors, lol. Either way, thank you posting that, never heard of that company before.

Glad I could be an enabler for you

 

[pollipazzi]

I was so focused on the lighting that I didn't even think about the water being an issue. They'd be underwatered if anything. I just noticed the dirt on the cherry tomato was dry, the other three not, but I watered them all anyway. I only water them about once a week.

The potting soil was fresh Miracle Grow potting soil.

I better put the light back down too then. It's up about two feet. It was about 1 foot when they started going downhill, so I looked it up, and it said 18" for their age. I went to 18", and that wasn't helping, so I went up to 2'.

Why though is the cherry tomato doing so well? I wish that's all I'd planted lol.

this might not be a popular opinion, but if i have really leggy tomatoes, i will dig them really REALLY deep to the first set of leaves. even if that means a foot or whatever. you can even lay them sort of on their side. they will grow roots all along the stem.

 

[Debbie292d]

this might not be a popular opinion, but if i have really leggy tomatoes, i will dig them really REALLY deep to the first set of leaves. even if that means a foot or whatever. you can even lay them sort of on their side. they will grow roots all along the stem.

I did take one out and did the best I could to lay its stem at an angle and bury it. He's a bit shorter than the others, but doing no differently. Maybe I should go drastic with it like you mention. I'll see what we've got for bigger containers.

 

[pollipazzi]

I did take one out and did the best I could to lay its stem at an angle and bury it. He's a bit shorter than the others, but doing no differently. Maybe I should go drastic with it like you mention. I'll see what we've got for bigger containers.

don't worry. he won't be short for long!

 

[fuzzi]

this might not be a popular opinion, but if i have really leggy tomatoes, i will dig them really REALLY deep to the first set of leaves. even if that means a foot or whatever. you can even lay them sort of on their side. they will grow roots all along the stem.

I've done both, but prefer burying tomatoes deep, with only one set of leaves showing.