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Tomato & pepper plants - put in now?
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Re: Tomato & pepper plants - put in now?
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t4156-tomato-roots[/quote[/url]]Lindacol wrote:
Check out this thread:
[url=https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t4156-tomato-roots
Thanks for the thread!!!! Made a believer out of me and I will be planting mine tomorrow; some on their side and some deep and see how it goes.
Got another question regarding beans. I planted my pole beans and they sprouted monday and the leaves have been chewed away. Now I looked around the squares and there are a lot of bugs, brown and grey and about 1/2 inch long, and picked them all off so what are they and what can I do to keep them away without using chemicals?
I have a TON of coffee ground and understand that bugs do not like them so will that work???
floyd1440- Posts : 815
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Re: Tomato & pepper plants - put in now?
floyd1440 wrote:quiltbea wrote:@floyd.....For boxes that aren't very deep, they lay them on their sides so they start our horizontal with only the upper greens sticking up straight.
I reread Mels book and he mentions laying them down as you also shared. But I have never done this before and want to know how many people lay their toms down?
That's how I do mine, but I don't put in really huge transplants. Last year they grew fine in 6" beds.
UnderTheBlackWalnut- Posts : 559
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Re: Tomato & pepper plants - put in now?
Here is what you get from either laying the tom's down, or burying them deep ..
acara- Posts : 1012
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Age : 54
Location : Wesley Chapel, Florida (Zone 9)
Re: Tomato & pepper plants - put in now?
What I did last year was to cut out the bottoms of the pots they were in and buried the plant in the ground and then filled in the dirt around the stalk with in the pot. sort of like a sleeve.
Got HUGE plants.
Got HUGE plants.
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Age : 67
Location : british columbia zone 5a
Re: Tomato & pepper plants - put in now?
Thanks for all of the info in this old thread!
My tomatoes (and a couple of Black Beauty zucchinis) are outside hardening off right now because they HAVE to get transplanted soon since I started them too early. It's not very gentle, but since our sun isn't fierce yet I've been putting them out before I leave for work (8AM-ish) and taking them back inside after the sun goes down. Since I work full time I can't put them out for a couple of hours at a time.
I'm hoping to get them into their buckets this weekend; although we'll start cooling off a bit next week into the 40's at night, we're past our last frost date. And they are SO rootbound in their Solo cups it's not even funny. Here's our 10-day:
28-Feb 75°F 48°F
1-Mar 81° 51°
2-Mar 81° 54°
3-Mar 69° 48°
4-Mar 67° 48°
5-Mar 65° 44°
6-Mar 62° 40°
7-Mar 63° 40°
8-Mar 65° 42°
9-Mar 70° 46°
My tomatoes (and a couple of Black Beauty zucchinis) are outside hardening off right now because they HAVE to get transplanted soon since I started them too early. It's not very gentle, but since our sun isn't fierce yet I've been putting them out before I leave for work (8AM-ish) and taking them back inside after the sun goes down. Since I work full time I can't put them out for a couple of hours at a time.
I'm hoping to get them into their buckets this weekend; although we'll start cooling off a bit next week into the 40's at night, we're past our last frost date. And they are SO rootbound in their Solo cups it's not even funny. Here's our 10-day:
28-Feb 75°F 48°F
1-Mar 81° 51°
2-Mar 81° 54°
3-Mar 69° 48°
4-Mar 67° 48°
5-Mar 65° 44°
6-Mar 62° 40°
7-Mar 63° 40°
8-Mar 65° 42°
9-Mar 70° 46°
Coelli- Posts : 300
Join date : 2012-04-30
Location : Los Angeles foothills
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