Recent Posts Tagged With 'tomatoes'

• Row 1 Mittleider organic garden

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 17:33 in organic gardening, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation, mittleider, vegetable gardening

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• How long can I grow seedlings indoor?

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 10:48 in gardening, tomatoes, growlights

  If one plants tomato seedlings indoors under florescent lights to growtwelve weeks before transplanting outside and the plants normally aresupposed to produce ripe fruit within 65-70 days, what happens to thatnormal development? Are the plants stunte...

• Growing Roma tomatoes

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 15:03 in roma, vegetables, tomatoes, mittleider jim kennard

  I am trying this (tomato) for the first time and I notice that it looks more like a very thick bush, does anyone know if this is something I should thin out or do I just leave it alone?roydcole & Group:Prune Romas just enough to keep leaves off the g...

• Pruning determinate vs indeterminate tomatoes

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 05:56 in garden, vegetables, tomatoes

  Thanks for the replies.? I think it was most clear when Jim said "just make sure you have ONE stem growing upward, and remove everything else."? I must confess that this is what I was thinking everyone meant, but couldn't imagine it was really true!?...

• Tomato Blossom drop - How to Sustain Production Through the Summer

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 06:01 in vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation, mittleider

  Tomato Blossom drop - How to SustainProduction Through the SummerThis is mys first year using the Mittleider method. Living in westGeorgia our summer heat can be rather stout and is often over 90sustained for most of the summer. In past veg gardens I...

• Using material between your soil beds yes of no?

  Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 21:52 in vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation, jim kennard, weeding

  Jim and/or group,1. Would it be advisable to lay something between the grow boxes/bedsto help keep weeds down? I have some rubber like black material (roofing) that I could use. Would that provide a breeding place for bugs, etc and nota good idea?2. ...

• Nitrogen fertilizers

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 06:03 in vegetables, tomatoes, mittleider, fertilizer shortages

  Hey Jim and group, my name is Bill. This is my first post in thisgroup. I am from the Saint Louis, Missouri area, and mainly doinggardening by small containers. I live in a subdivision of Villas withlimited space. I have a question about the nitrogen...

• Home fertilizer mix how to make it

  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 05:56 in vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation, mittleider

  Hi allI live I St.Maarten and I would like to start my garden. I am ableto get the following fertilizers in 4 lb bags. I would like to knowhow to mix these to get the right proportion for the fertilizer mixthat was created by Mr. Mitleider.Ammonium S...

• Feeding your plants thru the pvc pipes

  Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 in vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation, mittleider

  I am a disabled veteran and hope to be able to produce enough crops toget off of disability. Unfortunately my check barely covers food andliving expenses so I've not purchased the books. Sorry. I've beengleaning as much as I can through this group bu...

• When to add preplant mix

  Posted on Friday March 21st, 2008 at 06:00 in gardening, vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation

  Jim,I cannot remember whether we are supposed to use preplant mix in the vegetable garden boxes each Spring before we plant new vegetable seedlings. Thanks ahead for your response.HelenHelen & Group:Pre-Plant Mix is to be added to both containers (...

• Correct adjustments to fertilizers other then 20-20-20

  Posted on Wednesday March 19th, 2008 at 23:08 in garden, gardening, vegetables, tomatoes, food for everyone foundation

  Jim,I have 4 questions:1. I'm still in El Paso... I can't locate the 16-16-16, 16-8-16blend. I've only been able to find 13-13-13. I mixed the weekly feedbut I'm not sure if I need to add anything else to bring the numbers up.2. I mixed the pre-plant...

• Pruning tomaotes correctly

  Posted on Sunday March 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 in vegetables, tomatoes, pruning, food for everyone foundation, mittleider

  Jim - I watched this video about pruning the tomato plant. Is this what the plant will eventually look like when done by the Mittleider Method? There are very few leaves on this plant when he finished.Sheila (Virginia)Sheila & Group:Do NOT prune toma...

• General Mittleider gardening questions

  Posted on Thursday August 23rd, 2007 at 07:39 in garden, tomatoes, mittleider, sustainable gardening, jim kennard

  Over the past couple of weeks I have signed on to this group andobtained an enormous amount of help and information. I have alsoread one of Dr. Mittleider's early books. What I have found is thatI read something in a post or article and then forget...

• Oh nooo My tomatoes are splitting HELP

  Posted on Sunday June 17th, 2007 at 12:38 in tomatoes, food for everyone foundation, mittleider jim kennard, sustainable gardening

  I really need help figuring out why my tomatoes are splitting. We're having 100 degree weather right now and we are watering twice a week but our tomatoes are all splitting. Any advice?Splitting of tomatoes is caused by uneven water availability to t...