Anyone doing a garden?

[mulester7]

My pepper plants have several mature peppers already.

.....Spartan, do you water a bell pepper plant less than tomato plants?....anyone?.....

 

[spartanmanor]

I am no expert on watering but I beleive the plant would need about the same amout of water dependent on its relative size to a tomato. Watering for me is more a matter of how dry the ground is and if the plant is showing any stress. Are your peppers in tubs as well?

 

[Kuma]

My tomatoes are growing, but not anything like Spartanmanor describes. I think our Michigan latitude puts us behind the growth curve....

My basil - which has always grown like gangbusters in years' past - isn't fairing too well. I may have to get some new plants from a different supplier.

Regarding bell peppers - keep them growing until completely red (it'll take a while). Red bells are much more nutritional than the greenies.

 

[mulester7]

Are your peppers in tubs as well?

.....yes.....

Regarding bell peppers - keep them growing until completely red (it'll take a while). Red bells are much more nutritional than the greenies.

.....thanks, Kuma.....

 

[spartanmanor]

.....yes.....

Just make sure the roots don't get water logged. As long as you have plenty of drainage in the bottom it should be no problem.

 

[toxcrusadr]

All your bell peppers will eventually turn red (well, except for the orange, yellow, purple and other colored ones). However there are varieties that turn color faster. I plant some of each. Red Beauty is what we have around here, or Pimento.

 

[mulester7]

All your bell peppers will eventually turn red (well, except for the orange, yellow, purple and other colored ones).

.....purple?....interesting.....

 

[toxcrusadr]

Grand Entrance to the veggie patch

A shot of the Clematis vine arch in bloom.

 

[spartanmanor]

Your garden is looking lush tox. Very nice!

 

[mulester7]

Your garden is looking lush tox. Very nice!

.....shoot, the whole backyard looks lush....pretty.....

 

[mulester7]

.....WOW, did we EVER, just have a wall of 60 mph wind hit our neighborhood!....a POWERFUL STRONG cell of rain hit Little Rock about two hours ago, headed for Memphis....I honestly thought a large oak tree two backyards from mine was going to turn over....my bell pepper plants were bent to the point of kissing the bottom of the bucket, but thankfully, suffered no damage to the stems above or below the soil....shoot, they were right at 3 feet tall, still growing fast....stood them back up, sorta', with strings tied around house bricks sitting on a table.....

.....45-50 minutes after the wall of wind hit us, the Weather Channel said the winds were picking up speed going across the flatland farming country of eastern Arkansas, and would hit Memphis with a 70-75 mph wall of wind....if any Memphis Guys read this and experienced the wind this afternoon, please post.....

 

[toxcrusadr]

3-ft pepper plants in June? Sheesh. I think there is some competition in the "lush" category. Mine are about 9" so far.

 

[www.records]

We had a line of storms move through Wednesday night. It toppled both of my tomato plants over. Also had some pea sized hail, nothing bad at all. I went outside and stood the plants back up and they are suffered only very minor damage. 1 small limb broke off.

I have them staked, but went out yesterday with the legs from a pair of my wifes old panty hose and got them more secured to the stakes and standing tall. Still waiting for some ripe ones, but they are loaded with greenies.

 

[toxcrusadr]

We had a line of storms move through Wednesday night. It toppled both of my tomato plants over. Also had some pea sized hail, nothing bad at all. I went outside and stood the plants back up and they are suffered only very minor damage. 1 small limb broke off.

I have them staked, but went out yesterday with the legs from a pair of my wifes old panty hose and got them more secured to the stakes and standing tall. Still waiting for some ripe ones, but they are loaded with greenies.

I assume you meant ripe tomatoes and not hose. :yuck::nono:

Actually those are great for tying up tomato plants, I've used them for years. A little harder to come by after the wife quit her big management job though...

 

[mulester7]

3-ft pepper plants in June? Sheesh. I think there is some competition in the "lush" category. Mine are about 9" so far.

.....Tox, my two Big Bertha plants were 9-10 inches tall when I got them a month ago....we'll see what happens after today....with some sun, water, and fish secretions , I think they'll be ok.....

 

[toxcrusadr]

I hope everything recovers. Weather's a bitch. We're lucky we can just dabble in this and not have to stake our lives on it!

 

[mulester7]

I hope everything recovers. Weather's a bitch. We're lucky we can just dabble in this and not have to stake our lives on it!

.....I agree and wish the same for all of us, Tox....also agree on the last two points you made.....

 

[mulester7]

Tomato-Fruit or Vegetable?

.....interesting read from Wikipedia.....


Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit. However, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and, from a culinary standpoint, it is typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, as are vegetables, rather than at dessert in the case of most fruits. As noted above, the term vegetable has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term. Originally the controversy was that tomatoes are treated as a fruit in home canning practices. Tomatoes are acidic enough to be processed in a water bath rather than a pressure cooker as "vegetables" require.

This argument has had legal implications in the United States. In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables but not on fruits caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled the controversy on May 10, 1893 by declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)).[33] The holding of the case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and the court did not purport to reclassify the tomato for botanical or other purposes other than for paying a tax under a tariff act.

Tomatoes have been designated the state vegetable of New Jersey. Arkansas took both sides by declaring the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in the same law, citing both its culinary and botanical classifications. In 2006, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a law that would have declared the tomato to be the official state fruit, but the bill died when the Ohio Senate failed to act on it. However, in April 2009 a new form of the bill passed, making the tomato the official fruit of the state of Ohio. Tomato juice has been the official beverage of Ohio since 1965. A.W. Livingston, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, played a large part in popularizing the tomato in the late 1800s.

Due to the scientific definition of a fruit, the tomato remains a fruit when not dealing with US tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (such as zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity.

 

[mulester7]

Tomato-Fruit or Vegetable?

Arkansas took both sides by declaring the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in the same law, citing both its culinary and botanical classifications.

.....hey, just because we speak fluent hick doesn't mean we're stewpid.....

 

[mulester7]

.....well, I'm tired of wingin' posts over in the camera forum with this digital camera I know nothing about, so I'm gonna' come back here and post about how to grow tomatoes out of buckets....that was supposed to be funny.....