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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3286)	8/18/2020 5:26:34 AM
From: Investor2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

How did you get good seed setup for next year? Thanks, I2

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3286)	8/19/2020 10:02:49 AM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

Hi Jack, I've always bought sunsugar seeds from Jungs. They are indeterminate. I got a late start transplanting my tomatoes this year. I only planted 3 sunsugars this year. They now have quite a few tomatoes on the lower parts of the plant (it is about 5 feet and just now really growing well). I splurged and bought 10 square tomato cages made by Hoss. They are very sturdy. Those tomato plants get so top heavy, they'll tip in the wind. I even used 6 foot T posts and they leaned. We've had three types of lettuce and one char doing very well. My wife has made 4 loaves of zucchini bread for the freezer/chili season. Our yellow pole beans where new seeds this year - just exploding, but not ready to pick - next week I'm thinking. Spaghetti squash is doing well and the Waltham butternut is just blooming now. Peppers hot and sweet all doing well with Cayenne being the STANDOUT SUPERSTAR. Perfect timing as last year they were duds. I tried two new jalapeno peppers this year as my usual was discontinued. I planted Dante and Everman. Everman has been by far the bigger plant, faster to grow peppers and they appear to be 4 inch jalapenos. No info on the heat of them so far. My early girls, Marzano and San Martino plants are nicely green growing tomatoes, but I need some more heat to ripen the early tomatoes. My part of Wisconsin has had some very nice rains, about once a week. This last two weeks we've put in three large perennial flower gardens. I've wheelbarrowed and spread 5 bales of peat moss, 20 bags of "Black Cow "compost, and 19 yards of garden soil and mulch. My wife has studied which perennials do best and how high they grow. She has the initial plantings of some beautiful flower gardens that were built around the existing flowers my mother planted decades ago. This part of Wisconsin is in the Kettle Moraine area. I've been digging up the old rock piles from past farmers efforts and repurposed them into the mulch beds and flowers. Glad to have wrapped up the flower beds as harvesting and canning time is looming large and near. So far we have canned three batches of bread and butter pickles ( 20 pints). We'll do 6 to 8 batches and then turn to canning the yellow pole beans = "Monte Gusto's" ( our favorite to eat during the winter). Hard to believe deer hunting is not far off anymore. I've planted ten rows of corn just next to one of my 7 tree stands. Each morning wild turkeys with their young chicks walk across our front yard as they walk into the tall weeds to eat grasshoppers and seeds. A young turkey must eat 2/3 of it body weight to grow fast so it can fly up into the trees and then survive the winter. This is the prettiest time of the year in Wisconsin. Everything is busting with growth,as the harvest looms out in the near future. We are having a perfect growing season for farmers fields of corn and soybeans. It's busy fun, and rewarding. I'll try to post some pics. Bob