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  1. hillsvale

    moving tomatoes and peppers indoors?

    Sounds awesome... but your right, they had better be a strong insulated umbrella for here, last year I had an extremem winter with some snow banks taller than me! lol
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    Idea for Preserving Some of the Tomatoes

    We have (had) 4 large dogs... nothing in that vehicle is safe! I'd be best to stick to more conventional methods!:gig
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    moving tomatoes and peppers indoors?

    well I dug up one pepper plant and a smallish roma tomato plant.. (its about 2' across) just to se how they react .... the perrer looks fine but the tomato looked desperate but their root systems were huge so we shall see, I do know that the monster ones will have to be harvested. I didn't know...
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    Idea for Preserving Some of the Tomatoes

    yup, my envoy is navy blue and simons nitro is black... both get good and hot but I use my vehicle as the farm vehicle, we have brought home weaners pigs, pregnant sheep, goats..... and of course carts the dogs around. Simons has only had a goat and her kid and of course the dogs so his is much...
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    Idea for Preserving Some of the Tomatoes

    I was afraid that what the answer.... I wonder what tomatoes coated in dog hair would taste like.... my car is slightly less than sanitary :th
  6. hillsvale

    Time for Them to Go

    agreed.. yummy, if my romas ever mature I look forward to the same!
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    quick question

    agreed... good manners are essential on forums such as this.
  8. hillsvale

    Hello from Nova Scotia

    Backyardchickens and backyardherds have been great sources of reference for us so I am sure this site will be as well. :thumbsup
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    Hello from Nova Scotia

    thank you Mary... with both of us working full time and running a farm we need all the help we can get! I just snuck outside (I am on the last couple vacation days) and its beautiful and sunny out so I think to myself that the tomatoes will be fine.... then I remember the sweatshirt I had to...
  10. hillsvale

    Hello from Nova Scotia

    we are in zone 5B, maybe a bit warmer than that generally but this year was very cold to start and I lost most of my roma tomato seedlings right off the bat. the second round went out in July because the spring was so wet and cold and now I have huge 2-3' across plants with hundreds of little...
  11. hillsvale

    Hello from Nova Scotia

    many thanks, the self sufficient person in me is having a rough time growing anything but animals these days... need all the help I can get!
  12. hillsvale

    Just sharing my chicken/garden method

    good idea....
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    Help for Aggressive Rooster Problems

    the one roo I had that showed a slight bit of aggression would get a flick of my foot on his side or rear end.... the was only at the stage of "hopping" for lack of better words but if he hadn't responded it wold be freezer camp.... now if I could just stop the gander!! The picking up and...
  14. hillsvale

    Idea for Preserving Some of the Tomatoes

    You use your car?... info please :)
  15. hillsvale

    moving tomatoes and peppers indoors?

    This year has been a dismal year for growing in Nova Scotia... I put in roma tomatoes, red peppers and jalapenos which I grew from seed. The first round barely made it with only 8 of the 30 roma plants surviving... now I have a ton of small tomatoes and peppers on the plants but no where near...
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    Hello from Nova Scotia

    Popped on from Backyardherds.... :frow
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