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I’m so excited to finally get the chance to plant out my tomatoes and peppers! I’m dreaming of all the summer veggies that will soon be coming in from the garden! Fresh tomatoes are one of my favorite garden veggies! The taste can’t even compare to store bought tomatoes!
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We plant carrots with our tomatoes
Use the plastic left from the jugs to make plant labels. Great job.
I plant my tomatoes and peppers this way every year–the tomatoes go in extra-deep holes with the egg and peel under them, and the peppers I just do the egg, supplementing with top-dressing of epsom salts when they bloom. The result is beautiful, productive plants with (usually) plenty of fruit.
In Australia we also companion plant basil with tomato’s as the basil keeps the bugs off the tomatoes
Leaves that turn purple on the underside of the leaves and sometimes some purple on top of the leaves is a potassium issue. This can happen when you have to keep them in pots longer. When I have the same issue as you do I just add an organic fast acting 1/2 teaspoon granules of potassium per plant. Keep up the good work!
Go on Amazon and look for the kinglake store and there's a hundred waterproof plant markers for outside for $5.99 now my suggestion is instead of writing on them cuz you're going to put different things so that you can reuse them take a piece of paper right on it with marker and just use package tape on it. Now if you get that stuff I told you about abenequi cleaner if the tape makes the thing a little gummy that'll take that sucker right off LOL loving your channel loving loving loving your channel. Check out the channel veggie boys they are a family that's been farming for years and the father and the boys give tons of tips for starting seedlings. It's pretty amazing. And then once I remember what the other channel that I watched about gardening is I can't remember what it the name of the channel but it's based in Quebec and that's pretty cool. Anyhow great job as usual really enjoying this channel thank you
Follow the Elliot homestead and Justin Rhodes since you follow roots and refuge
Determinate tomatoes enjoy a bit of ash from the wood fire. Just water the ash in
For plant labeling I just cut up my old plastic yogurt tubs, height-ways, then nip the bottom to a point and you can get 12-15 plastic plant labels that won’t wash off like popsicle sticks!
Unless you were planning on selling your stars anyone to look nice you can use any kind of repurposed plastic to make your markers for your seedlings. I use cottage cheese containers and yogurt containers and cut them into strips and wrote on them with marker. It works just fine. So I repurpose something and if you want you can save them. I've ditched mine but I'm pretty frugal. I do have a bunch of markers that I bought that were plastic on Amazon and they are still in the package haha. Out of my garden I have white plastic spoons that I wrote on with oil pen or paint pen and my daughter was getting rid of some thick blinds that she had so they're very heavy-duty I cut them into one foot or 18 inch pieces and use them as markers in my actual Garden so I don't lose track of what's there. You can reuse them next year and it does have an aesthetic look to it too. By the way you could use the bottom of your milk and cut them into strips for seedling markers to haha
When I crack open an egg, I save the egg shells until I have about a full produce bag of them and then spread them out on a baking sheet and put them in the oven on its lowest setting for about 6-8 hours or until my wife says they are done. Next, put them in a food processor to grind to an almost powder. We save the powder in a jar all year and when we plant tomatoes and peppers we sprinkle them in the hole. Also, used Espinosa vegetable fertilizer every 2 weeks. This year I had the best harvest.
Use your coffee grinder/spice grinder to make these dried banana peels and egg shells into powder. use this powder mixture in your soil before you transplant your plants. I mix this mixture with epsom salt and put them in container for use.
Love to see you're planting the chocolate sprinkles cherry tomatoes – that's the only tomato I planted (first year patio/container garden), but mine are soooo tiny! they're the size of my pinky nail when they stop growing and turn. They're getting to an orange color before they start to wrinkle. Not ripening well 🙁 I think it's our Texas heat – I'm zone 8a, but it's been super hot (and of course it was mild and I have probably 50 tomatoes growing on it b/c of that)
You can find popsicle sticks at the dollar store!
you could get a bunny and collect the bunny poop, toss a handfull in before your veggies.
I just watched this video because I only learned of planting tomatoes with an egg recently. I’m just writing to offer a tip that I learned last year. Buy a plant auger that attached to a regular drill. It was a LIFE CHANGER for me. Even digging a big hole for trees or larger shrubs was so much easier! Start with a short one – not the really long one which is harder to get used to. Saves so much time! Love your videos, Becky!
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You should be wearing your lightweight glovers. You need to save your hands.
You did a good job
my uncle threw a few smelts under tomatoes and roses when he planted them
I am zone 5b and our last frost date is Mother’s Day (mid may). I always put my tomatoes and peppers out in April and use walls o water! My plants are always so much happier in the ground than inside in a pot. The walls o water are like a mini green house around the plant. They even hold up to snow! The trick is to keep less water in the cells when it is colder so the top stays tightly closed and more water so it stays open when it starts warming up. These also help with weird weather years. I can keep my plants covered until I’m comfortable with the weather.
coffee grounds keep slugs away I read
My tomato didn’t do good at all I bought them already started and I bought some bags of fertilizers but they grew tall and didn’t get as bushy as I wanted and I didn’t get hardly any tomato’s
Can you show how you sanitize your pots?
Espagne means Spain in French!