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tomatoes: inside, outside, upside down
12:56 PM, Saturday, May 17, 2008
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I was planning to do my tomatoes in the upside-down bucket manner this year. There is a lady on freecycle who has buckets I can have... the problem seems to be one of co-ordination. The SL freecycle, you just leave your stuff on your porch and whoever you choose for your stuff comes to pick it up. Here, I cannot ask anyone to drive so far away from town (with gas so expensive) just to get a cheap $5 waffle iron, so I mention when I go into Logan and we meet somewhere on main street and pass-off whatever items (it makes me feel kind of furtive and almost illegal to meet a strange car in a parking lot and hand over a package to a stranger....). Well, all is well and good until....A lady who has something I want also lives so far away from town, but in the OTHER direction. She also brings her stuff into town and drops them there. But we are NEVER in town at the same time. sigh. so she has a lot of 5-gal buckets I can have and use for tomatoes, but I cannot get them! LOL!!! But anyway, back to the tomatoes.... I am planning this method, just going to go by what I read on the internet, and some people have had great success with it, and some have not. And on Sunday, the Women's group at church passed out a flyer that someone will be teaching upside down tomatoes today. Oh, I was excited - they must have done this before, right? So I want to get all mine done while there. but no buckets. well, I have one from other stuff, so I find a lid for it and off I go with my bucket, 1.5 cu feet of potting soil, and a lovely Roma plant. Seven sisters were there, and it turns out, no one there had done upside-down tomatoes before, but we all liked the idea, which is why we were there. So we are learning together. We cut the 2" hole in the bottom and the lid (actually, it is a 2 1/8" hole - her husband couldn't find his 2" oh well....close enough!) put down a coffee filter, and filled with soil. right up to the brim; I watered mine about half way so that the soil would be damp, then added the rest of the soil. put on the lid, tip it upside down. cut an "X" in the coffee filter, use a narrow garden trowel to dig out a deep hole for my plant, and stuff it in as deep as I could. I added more soil around it, and some water, and carried it out to the car. Right now, my plant is on my deck outside my bedroom. It is keeping company with the lemon tree I received for Christmas two years ago, and the lime and the banana tree I received for Mothers day this year. They all like the warm sunlight of daytime here, but I have to bring them in at nights still. Frost is still very likely. so I will keep my tomato there as well for a while. I have to bring them all in anyway, what is one more plant? until my dh comes into our bedroom tonight and finds ONE MORE PLANT in our bedroom...... Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 16 of 209 } { Next Page } |
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