On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:20:15 GMT, (---Pete---) wrote:

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:55:05 -0400, Boron Elgar
wrote:

I am in Northern NJ and this is the best year I have ever had for
tomatoes. No cracking, no blossom rot, unusually huge and sweet yields
of several different varieties. Some were grown in large tubs and
others directly in the garden.

It's been tomato heaven up here.
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Boron,
Let me ask, did you do a lot of watering this year?
How about fertiziling?

I watered every day when the heat was on, especially in the tubs. Each
garden plant had a circle and mound around it & was watered within
that area, so no "sprinklers," only direct to base of plant.

I used Osmocote Vegetable & Bedding (14-14-14) and organic matter from
the compost of last year's garden. I toss in some peat moss and a bit
of packaged manure. My only "new" add-in was Epsom Salts. That may
have been it, or I was just lucky.


Oh, I still got wilt that dam near killed a few plants in tubs (even
though they had been scrubbed & were filled with "fresh" bagged
potting soil.) but I still got a good yield.

I'm trying to figure out why my garden produced such small
tomatoes this year. I know I didn't water enough and I also
didn't add any side feedings of 10-10-10 fertilizer to each plant
in July as I usually do. Then there is the fact that in April I added
about a 10 gallon container of wood & coal ashes to my 100 sq ft
garden plot and turned it into the soil before planting. My Garden
started great with 6 foot tomato plants and 3 foot pepper plants
by early July. But the fruits were only about half the size of
previous year. Hmmmmmmmmm.

---pete---

In all my years of gardening, I have learned that some years are
great, and some are just ok, and others plain old suck eggs.

The entire garden was very productive this year. In addition to the
tomatoes. the cukes, radishes, lettuce, beans, corn, zucchini, herbs,
and flowers were all lovely. I have an Earth Box with 6 Brussels
sprout plants that are humongous. I am looking forward to a frost to
harvest them.

Boron