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The television news showed snow in San Diego County this morning! How can that be good for tomatoes?

When you say vertically, what do you mean? Upside down in an expensive, made for television pot? Tied to a stick? Something else? Mine grow in cages, made from 6" concrete reinforcing wire, 60" tall, 18: diameter. They grow out the top like crazy, and feed all who come by. Very little...

Our first butternuts came unexpectedly with something that got added to the soil mix, as best I can tell. They sprouted on the edges of what was to become a lawn the next summer, and ran for 40' in whatever direction they pleased. They tucked in around the citrus and the roses, and grew dozens...

Your dirt and mine are different. Your climate is different. Your crops are likely different. Your background and experience are different. Why would you take my experience over your own? :) My garden spot was clay. Black, gummy clay. There are now raised beds on that area, that once was...

It's that container idea that you can use, if the earth won't till very well. We use those here in California to work around ground that's otherwise not all that great for gardening, or would have to be repurposed drastically from what it has been doing. Not everyone is willing or able to pull...

So do I. San Marsnos work well, too. So do Romas, but they're not as sexy, or quite as good. We're 15 miles east of Oakland, CA.

What kind of dwarf trees? DIL just planted an apricot in one here this week. We'll see how it does. In a past time, we had a dwarf lime in a container. It's now in the ground, since we bought the house 12 years ago, and doing well. So are the lemons, oranges and other citrus. They get...

Watermelons and pumpkins and various other winter squash run where they wish. You can cover several hundred square feet with a couple of hubbard squash, the way they spread. And the vines can be moved when they go where you don't want them. A friend covers part of his front yard with three...

This is why I like this place. LOML asked me this evening if we could plant broccoli in our garden, and whether it could happen now. We're near Oakland, CA. Going to the garden center in the morning...:)

You're in what I'd thought would be potato heaven. But those yields seem pretty small. What does the rest of your garden do?

Exception to what hoodat says may be the local community college, with their greenhouse sale each spring. Lots of great seedlings and potted veggies available for cheap on that weekend. But those folks know what they're doing, and if you can fit their schedule, you can get some additional...

I have a sister in the Phoenix/Glendale area. They don't even try to grow tomatoes over the late June-September season... Their last harvest is about now.

And I thought that the 30 we have growing was over doing it.:lol: We picked about 1 1/2 qts of cherry tomatoes Sunday afternoon, which went directly (except for those the granddaughters skimmed off) into a pasta salad for the family dinner. They were excellent. Yellow pears, Sweet 100s, some...

+1 Only mine haven't done anything at all this year. New seeds going in for late arrivals, hopefully, but the last batch is a lost cause. :(

If those Fireworks tomatoes smell right, and taste sweet, then you got them at the right time. We're hoping for our first tomatoes next weekend, right on the Fourth. Usually within a couple of days of that, by our experience. We had plenty of rain this year, and it is just getting hot this...

The local landscape supply used to deliver at no charge if you bought three or five yards of materials. I don't remember the exact amount, but it was easier than taking the pickup truck 6 or 8 times. And it all showed up at once. That seems like a lot to buy, but it's way, way cheaper than...

There are circumstances well beyond pollinization that can have some of the same results as you report. Water, weather, soil conditions, fertilization, random dumb luck... all factor in. It's gardening. Some of it is determinate. Some of it, not so much. Control what you can. Plant in...

OK. No more greens bin collection for the dead rose clippings with black spot. Can't burn them here, for air pollution and fire control reasons. We're in a serious fire control state... The baking soda things seem the best cheap solution. I'll have to google neem. I haven't heard enough...

You should still have time to order something special. I wouldn't make it the only thing i planted, though. How many do you want? A couple, or a couple of truckloads?

My dad's family was from near Hughson, out near you. They grew a lot of melons with their gardens when he was young. Now, it's mainly almonds and walnuts commercially, and personal gardens for the residents...