Topsey Turvey!!

[dbjay417]

I have no pictures today, but i do have some words!

LoL

Both plants have grown considerably and about 3 days ago reach the stage in development where new growth begins to sprout from the nodes. I was happy to see this as it is a corner stone in the maturity of the plant. next comes flowers, and then fruit.

Not totally unrelated:
I was walkin out to feed the chickens this morning and noticed my first tomato from my ground planted plants.

 

[setter4]

I have no pictures today, but i do have some words!

LoL


Not totally unrelated:
I was walkin out to feed the chickens this morning and noticed my first tomato from my ground planted plants.

OMG! I think I hate you! I have a couple of 3" tall plants and it's really even too early for those here in the frozen zone 5(b).

 

[smom1976]

I am going to start saving milk jugs...

Can I possibly eat all those tomatos..???

I am expecting losses.. LOL

then I am going to learn to can.. I have a friend that I am hoping to get to help me in exchange for recipes and tomatos.. for knowledge and sauce..

Then I will be giving away tons I am hoping.. didnt have much luck with the tomatos last year.. Tomato Horn Worms got to them.. I went out every day picked them off.. (with needle nose plyers, becuase I didnt want to touch them) gave them to the chickens. But it didnt help.. they got to all my tomatos..

this year Organic gardening went by by.. just for now.. and I am only going to use chemicals when I have to.. not regularly..

 

[DawnSuiter]

I learn so much reading!

mosty that I was wrong when I thought I was ahead of the game planting my seeds this weekend :/

there is always next year

 

[Texan]

Can I possibly eat all those tomatos..???

I am expecting losses.. LOL

then I am going to learn to can.. I have a friend that I am hoping to get to help me in exchange for recipes and tomatos.. for knowledge and sauce..

..

I am going to learn to can as well. I really was just curious ifin you was going to eat all of those tomatos.

 

[dbjay417]

i have more produce than i can eat but where i live there is mno anti capitalist, anti agro government regulation making it impossible and/or illegal for me to sell my crops roadside, or to restaurants, and even small markets. thats something i dont miss about living in Massachusetts. State Government is like a hemorrhoid.

 

[dbjay417]

new update!

I think I may have reached my growth limit in the gallon. growth has slowed but maybe its just my perception. I'll post an update with pics next week.

I hung it up where it will get plenty of sun.

 

[wifezilla]

have more produce than i can eat but where i live there is mno anti capitalist, anti agro government regulation making it impossible and/or illegal for me to sell my crops roadside, or to restaurants, and even small markets. thats something i dont miss about living in Massachusetts. State Government is like a hemorrhoid.

Seriously?!?!?!

 

[dbjay417]

thats not entirely true, its just that the people, and in turn the government here are too poor to enforce laws that are anything less than absolutely necessary. They don't even have the resources to institute new taxes in order to raise revenue. In the sense of limited government, its almost a libertarian paradise. But by chance, not by ideology. Unfortunately the federal government has all of its entitlement spending programs over here rewarding the unproductive and what not. I'm thinking of establishing a libertarian party here in PR when my Spanish is more fluent. Why wait until its an uphill battle when I can take preventative measures now.

I'm just glad we have an ultraconservative governor (not the social kind), who cut government spending his first week by laying off government employees in his own office, and then introduced legislation to cut jobs in the Tax collection agency. Public works suffer, but individual liberty makes up for any inconvenience. he's also increasing benefits for charitable organizations and donors. i could not be more satisfied with him. Hes a big change of pace from the Mitt Romney RINOs I'm used to in Massachusetts.

this is a very free market place with legal roadside stands all over the place. Last summer I sold trinkets at the beach. i didnt make much money though. I was used to business practices stateside and i was ill prepared for the ferocity of true free market competition. It didn't take anything but my $600 GWB tax rebate to legally establish the business, and purchase my first inventory.

Its not a cushy life by any means, but its a liberated one.

Sorry if anyone is put off by the political talk. i try to avoid it but its my other passion, aside from gardening and keeping animals and all that.

regarding the topsey turvey I'd like to retract my statement about stagnant growth. Poor thing was under watered. I noticed when it wilted yesterday afternoon.

 

[setter4]

regarding the topsey turvey I'd like to retract my statement about stagnant growth. Poor thing was under watered. I noticed when it wilted yesterday afternoon.

I won't comment on any of the political stuff ...

This seems to kind of go back to my poor performance with the Topsy Turvey. If I watered it enough then the water ran out the bottom and ran down the plant stem and eventually it seemed to rot the stem.