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I only have experience with the Victorio, & it was many years ago. I used to borrow it from my neighbor whenever I canned tomato products of one sort or another. It was metal, however; I can only imagine the plastic ones breaking constantly. :rolleyes: However, I can say that it was well worth...

Hi dwbonfire87! Welcome, from a fellow Tar Heel! :frow Wow, those are a lot of questions, so I will leave most of them to folks here who have much more expertise than I do. Tomatoes - how early did you plant? We had some temps in the 30's a week or so ago. 'Maters can be sensitive to cold...

My BIL gave me a large bag of corn husks, assuring me "of course you can compost them!" (he's also given me peanut shells & whole lemon rinds). :rolleyes: I'm thinking they would take forever to compost unless shredded into small pieces...or am I mistaken?

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I wish I had read your post sooner, I pulled up one ready to bolt - nuffin! Shoulda just left it. :rolleyes:

Since I planted them for DH, I had him eat the one I pulled up...his opinion? "On the money, baby!" :lol: Looks like 2 of mine are ready to bolt, too, vfem, so I may as well go ahead & pull those up too...maybe I'll get lucky. :)

I covered up my newly-sprouted bean plants, they were the only ones I was worried about. Everything came out okay. :D

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I was hoping there was a simple test, like the greens start to flower or something. :) I only planted about 20, so didn't want to pull any up unless I knew they were ready. But...I did pull one up this morning, it was about the size of a large marble ("boulder" sized, for those of a certain...

I covered mine with a layer of newspaper as someone (hoodat?) suggested & they all (eventually) sprouted. It did take about 2 1/2 weeks for the first batch, which I started in February. When they were about an inch or so tall, I started another batch, which only took about 10 days to sprout, so...

I haven't grown radishes since I was a kid...how do I know if they're "ripe" without pulling them out of the ground & thereby ruining them if they aren't ready? Some appear to have a rounded red top sticking out of the ground, others don't. :/

I had to plant my beans twice before anything came up - then only 4 of the 7! :/ Someone (vfem?) mentioned wrapping the seeds in wet paper towels & let them germinate that way...so I'm trying that too! :)

Yeah...then when it's in the 90's every day for 3 months & you're DYING for a salad, all your lettuce has already bolted!! Aaargh! :/ :rolleyes:

There ya go, hoodat! Got any preschoolers around...? :lol:

Edited: sorry, I asked a question that you DID answer - I just didn't read far enough! :)

It's supposed to be 86 today but 67 tomorrow! :/

Yesterday I had a salad of romaine, green leaf (Grand Rapids), red leaf (Red Sails), & spinach...all from snipping outer leaves. Sorry, couldn't resist the brag! :lol:

I'm very thankful to have other Southern gardeners here (especially vfem! ;)) because gardening here is so much different than what I was used to "up North" (the intense heat, the clay soil, etc.). I know you'll learn a lot! :D

:frow Welcome! I'm couple of hours north of you! :D

:sick Lovely! I use the baited-bag fly traps too...when it gets real hot I have to put out a new one every week. But they do work. Now...how do you get rid of the biting flies?? They are driving me nuts!! :barnie