Gardening- New Seeds

[HeroicPrepper]

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[Amish Heart]

That's an interesting idea to use detergent tops. You need a large pot for those radishes, don't waste your time with a detergent top. What kind of soil did you use in the little pots? Please say you used a seed starter mix, or mixed your own. It looks kind of too clumpy on camera.
Nice grill and smoker!

 

[HeroicPrepper]

That's an interesting idea to use detergent tops. You need a large pot for those radishes, don't waste your time with a detergent top. What kind of soil did you use in the little pots? Please say you used a seed starter mix, or mixed your own. It looks kind of too clumpy on camera.
Nice grill and smoker!

Starter mix with some regular dirt

 

[MOS0231]

I use Mel's Mix for starter.

Then when ready to transplant to raised beds, I mix 2 year old cow, goat, manure with waste hay on the bottom, then top soil on top.

 

[MOS0231]

To add: Save seeds from your three best performing plants for planting next year. After 5 generations, they are considered heirloom and will, generally, preform better as they will be more adapt to your climate, soil type.

 

[HeroicPrepper]

To add: Save seeds from your three best performing plants for planting next year. After 5 generations, they are considered heirloom and will, generally, preform better as they will be more adapt to your climate, soil type.

wow great!

 

[GaRp58]

live and learn, on the job training...GP

 

[MOS0231]

I have found that orphan tomato plants that we leave to over winter, while they sprout later than indoor seedlings, they tend to catch up and grow even better than ones started indoors.

 

[Amish Heart]

Do you mean the volunteer ones? I've noticed that. Also have had good luck with bringing in tomatoes, replanting them again outside in late spring.

 

[GaRp58]

while they sprout later than indoor seedlings, they tend to catch up and grow even better than ones started indoors.

We just discussed that with my BIL and he said that he always leaves some tomatoes on the stalks when the season is over to wilt and be buried all winter. They do sprout later but are bigger and more tasty than those he raises in pots, plants out and lets grow on their own yearly...

 

[MOS0231]

Do you mean the volunteer ones? I've noticed that. Also have had good luck with bringing in tomatoes, replanting them again outside in late spring.

Not sure if we are calling the same thing, the same thing.
If we leave some of the tomatoes on the vine, they rot, the seeds go into the ground, over winter and then sprout next spring.
We call them orphans.

 

[MOS0231]

We just discussed that with my BIL and he said that he always leaves some tomatoes on the stalks when the season is over to wilt and be buried all winter. They do sprout later but are bigger and more tasty than those he raises in pots, plants out and lets grow on their own yearly...

Good to know I am not the only one with that observation.
Thank you.

 

[Amish Heart]

Same thing.