Planting in eggshells

Speedie-if it was cheaper I mite try it. I have 2 teenage sons and I don't know how they eat so much.

Karen- all sounds good, please keep us posted. I really want to know how your garden does.

Edited bc the iPad added a word I didn't even recognize.

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They do eat like bottomless pits, don't they? My goodness, but it can be impressive to watch sometimes! .. until you realize that you'll want to eat something at some point too, and start to wonder if there will be anything left but crumbs! < ;^)

We're having another cool spell here in North Carolina. Ugh. All the tomatoes appear much, much better, including the cherry tomato a rabbit chewed down to a nub. I'd never thought a tomato plant with nothing left but the stem could recover!

Good. They are very tough plants with amazing rooting and regrowth capabilities. :)

Here's an update on my tomato drama. The crisis is over! Some of my tomato plants are 3 to 4 feet tall, and setting plenty of blooms and tomatoes. The plants I lifted to remove the eggshells are also catching up. They're not as tall, but are producing blooms. I expect tomatoes will follow.

My peppers are nice and dark green and, this year, my eggplants look fantastic (last year was terrible).

I really appreciate the help I received from this forum. I cant believe how many helpful gardeners came to my rescue. Thanks to all!

-Karen

Great to hear and you have the whole summer ahead of you.

Awesome, very glad to hear that they're all doing well. Looking forward to seeing pics when you get them! :)

Me too.

Glad to hear all is well!

Like everyone else, I've been busy in the garden. After my initial tomato woes, things got much better. I've attached pictures showing an overview of my garden. Some tomatoes are doing better than others, and my zucchini (raised in planters are LOUSY).

I used bamboo to stake my tomato plants. We cut it ourselves, drilled through the lowest separating membrane and put a piece of two foot conduit through the drilled hole. We also didn't trim the side branches flush, but left about 1/2". This allows the side branch nubs to act as hooks for attaching tie ups. Hopefully, since the bamboo never contacted the earth, we'll be able to use the same stakes for a few years.

I'd love to see a few pictures of other folks' gardens.

Beauty-full!!!!!! Man, makes me hungry just looking at it!!

I'm saddened to say that I had to pull out all my tomato plants a couple weeks ago... I had only 1 place I could grow them, and as it turned out it was too near where Orkin came along to treat for termites. I didn't think it would be safe to eat the fruits after that treatment, so out they came. =( I had nowhere else to put them!! =(
... well, there's always next year, Lord willing.

Nice job, Karen. :)

Thanks speediebean and Cville Gardener. Hey speediebean, what about planting in pots? I was at Walmart yesterday and they had still had some good looking plants.

I went through the "pest control" mess last year. We told the company we'd hired to stay away from the vegetables and gardens, but apparently "the guy" thought everything looked like a weed. Somethings you can't control, neighbors throwing grass seed everywhere or spraying herbicides at random.

I just put some cukes and onions in a vinegar, sugar and olive oil. I'll let them sit awhile, if I can wait that long. I need to check through the forum and catch up, see what everyone's up to.

I have done tomatoes in containers before, but I have no unused pots (that are big enough to accommodate tomatoes) left this year, and I'm definitely not in the market for any new ones this year. Will just have to wait for next year.

Mmmmmmm, your cuke/onion salad sounds YUMMY!!!