Wow, how do you hold up those tomato plants when they get that tall?
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Posts: 2889 | Location: Eastern Washington State, zone 6a. | Registered: December 13, 2004
With 5 foot concrete reinforcement wire cages that are so close they touch each other. Rarely have any even blown over by the wind!
Then they start growing downward over the sides, so it does become a virtual jungle!! I wanted to take these pics before I prune them up so I can at least get thru there to the squash!
Everything that blooms and grows, the garden angel scatters and sows...in the land of corn and pigs...
Posts: 5455 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
I uploaded them from "My Pictures" on my computer. The avatar thing was alot easier to get on here than an album. I'll be darned if I can get them small enough to be accepted by this site in an album. If I do, then they can't be enlarged for a decent view. I must be more technologically challenged than I thought!
Everything that blooms and grows, the garden angel scatters and sows...in the land of corn and pigs...
Posts: 5455 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
Cool, Mumsey! My eggplant have not quite a foot to go to catch up to you! Yours are gorgeous! My tomatoes look very similar. I feel like a small child in a giant garden when I'm in the tomato beds. They are easily seven feet high and going strong... and as I have said before, thanks to you and your 'magic mix'!
Mom was wondering where I was the other day. She couldn't see me out in the garden. I was "lost" somewhere in the tomato patch wearing a green t-shirt, blending right in!
Beautiful pictures and gardens, Mumsey! You have the magic touch!
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Posts: 1120 | Location: zone 7a southeastern PA | Registered: June 15, 2002
Thank you and you're welcome. It sure adds to the fun and excitement of growing things when they do really well.
About this time of year, I always swear to myself that next year I won't plant as much. Yeah, right. Then spring comes and I'm off the deep end again!! Lots of people benefit from my give-aways tho, which is pretty satisfying in itself. I have already treated the residents on my unit at work to several meals of fresh tomatoes.
Everything that blooms and grows, the garden angel scatters and sows...in the land of corn and pigs...
Posts: 5455 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
If that is you in the eggplant and tomatoes I would never Have guessed that was you on here.
I assumed you were a little old lady like me. All your wisdom and young to boot. Horay!!! Your parents must have taught you well. Or did you come upon this green thumb all on your own? I love your pictures. Keep them coming dear child!
lisaann
UPDATE: I think your reference to old dog loving peas made me think that I guess. I like your pup avatar! Bring it back!
Posts: 6951 | Location: MARYLAND zone 6 | Registered: May 23, 2003
Wow! I am impressed. Just how tall are you, so I know exactly how impressed to be?
The heat & humidity I've got. Have you posted your recipe for Mumsey's Magic Mix, or am I not supposed to be asking?
*sigh* One of these days I hope to get my soil built up to produce like that. Beautiful. Envying your relatives and neighbors to be getting that lovely giveaway eggplant! I'd be having some of that eggplant pizza PhoebeBird posted about were I growing it like that. (Mine gave up in the extreme heat & humidity with no tending while we were gone.)
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Posts: 434 | Location: zone 8b, MS | Registered: December 22, 2003
I have an eggplant that is that tall too! This is the first year ever that flea beetles didn't make lace out of the eggplant leaves, and man, is there a HUGE difference in their production. WHOOPPEEE!!!
On those reinforce tomato cages - where do you get them? Do you make 'em? Will you share? I keep "improving" my tomoato staking/caging each year, and they always (or many of them) still manage to pull them over, or at least topple over far enough so that they're leaning against their neighbor.
Lisann, I really am NOT young at all, just don't show my age. Just had 54th birthday!! And I am 5'4", so those plants ARE very tall.
For the cages, you buy a roll of concrete reinforcement wire and cut it up into 5 foot sections. The squares in the wire are 6". Then cut the vertical wires away on one side, make a loop with it to hook on the other side, which will give you a circle. Then at one end, cut out the horizontal wires and you have instant stakes to put in the ground. No further support is needed. You can get 10 cages out of a roll of wire which costs about $35. Pretty cheap when you consider they last 15-20 years.
I have posted Mumsey's Magic Mix here many times. It's too late to use it this year, so to avoid it getting "lost" again, ask me next spring!!
Everything that blooms and grows, the garden angel scatters and sows...in the land of corn and pigs...
Posts: 5455 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
I am impressed. Just how tall are you, so I know exactly how impressed to be? 
