On Apr 30, 6:03 am, "cat daddy" wrote:
Charlie wrote in message

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:09:09 -0500, "cat daddy"
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Hey Daddio, good to see you back around!

To much other stuff to do anything but lurk. I still read most things, but
too lazy to type.......



I just bought six of the dregs of Home Depot's late season tomato
plants.
All different varieties; half heirloom and half uncommon (at least to
me).
That seed savers site mentioned keeping them 10' apart to limit
cross-pollination, but that's not going to happen. I'm intrigued to save
theseseedsand see what their babies are like next year.

I've saveseedsfrom tomatoes growing right next to each other. Don't
saveseedsfrom double blossom/ double tomatoes. Suzanne Ashworth says
that potato leaf varieties may cross if in close proximity.

Ah, explains the "pumpkin" vine one. It may just be deformed and was one
of two that lost their labels through the checkout to home transport.



Who knows if they're even labeled right at HD. One looks like a pumpkin
vine.... Threw them in pots of compost from my three-year old pile. Lots
of
white powdery fungus in the pile......... I'm only going to feed them a
puree of eggshells, banana, and coffee grounds, with a little molasses
and
fruit juice........ same as last year.

OK....this sounds like a recipe or something. I don't understand. I
sense I need an explanation of your method. Straight aged compost as
growing medium, good and fungal, fed the mix you describe....what
gives? Something do do with the fungus???

No method other than laziness and practicality. Compost (as is) 'cause I
have it. Too lazy and pressed for time to sift it. I have few kitchen
leavings except for the above and it seems too little for my compost heap.
My old neighbour used to grow fantastic potted plants with nothing but our
backyard "dirt" and only added eggshells. Which was silly as our soil has
abundant calcium. But who's to argue with egg mojo....... The other stuff is
known to feed the microbiology, so that's where it's going.
I'm also curious how these tomatoes do, considering all I did was scrape
up someorganicbackyard "debris" and plant. May be useful for the future.
Not everyone can afford to buy all the groovy stuff. I know that it did fine
for me last year, cost nothing extra, and produced more than enough for the
lazy effort...

As soon as it warms up a little more I am going to be making compost
tea.

I'm really getting into this composting thing this year. I'm about to
run out of acceptable areas to be building piles. I've access to
unlimited horsepoo, grass clippings, leaves.....it's looking goooood!

Gardening is just a necessary by-product of the composting
obsession...... I'm still working through the huge finished pile of three
years ago.

you can find large range of organic seeds in www.genesisseeds.com .
the seeds are certified organic by the NOP.

keperman