Early March pictures

Okay, thanks ... I'm green with envy ... just today LOL. ^_^ I love your GH!

here are some shots from today :

A pair of happy peppers

a pair of yellow bells

my English seedless cukes are starting to flower

I support the plants with vine clips and twine so they grow straight up

had to throw in my Meyer Lemon Tree. Look at all the fruit

All my cukes are self pollinating cause we have no bees around here to pollinate

A view of my outside garden

*singing* "Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet...."

Great pics! :)

A row of maters

Thanks ice

Banana peppers

Granex Onions bulbing up

I see you are just stobbing them grow poles in hither and yon, Bob. Pretty soon, they will be the "coir" of your gardening enterprise. You really need to move up in the world and create a tomato grow pole. In a flow through stack, tomato roots will populate its own pot plus grow down through the flow through irrigation holes into the pot below it (and maybe even the pot below that.) LOL They are aggressive and grow into the amount of grow mix they need as long as there is a path to follow. Other large aggressive plants will do the same but it doesn't mean that the other sites on a tomato grow pole can not still be planted with other type plants. You just have to have a mixture of of the aggressive deep rooted plants mixed in with some smaller shallow rooted types. This makes the flow through stacked pots more versatile than the so called "self-watering" designs which trap all roots in each individual pot.

This really is getting fun, Jay. A tomato grow pole it is. I just happen to have 50 tomato plants ready for their home, so tomorrow it is.

Bob.......Verti-gro experimented with tomato's on a pole. Mounted two pots on a pole about 6 feet above ground and let the plants trail down. They recommended determinate tomato plants.

The experiment I did last year was in a five pot stack with 20 plant sites. All the plant sites were planted. I had either two or three tomato's (cant remember now), some calundula flowers, a couple of those red rubin basils and some other smaller stuff. Thats some pretty big plants on one pole and I was surprised how well they done. When my tomato plants started to droop, I just put an extension on the center pole and a PVC "T" on that and tied the tomato's up to the "T". I didn't have an automatic fertilizer/watering system hooked up and was experimenting again........Now and then I would throw about a half handful of slow release pellet fertilizer in the top diffuser pot. I figured water would melt the pellets and flow down through all the pots. About every 7, 8, 9, or 10 days, ( I am not very organized) I would run MG soluable fertilizer/water through the pole. I am thinking that I got really lucky last year with my haphazard methods.

The tomato's I was growing were called Gardener's Choice and had been sent to me by EZgro along with some of their pots. A nice, strong, stocky tomato and very productive.

Bob, I'll take those English cucumbers off your hands. Looks like you've got a handful without them anyway. LOL

I got plenty of bees, I have three huge ones in the front yard, hope they make it round back where my cukes are. I just put about 50 cuke plants in my bloommaster and hung it up on the plant stand. Pics tonight, that was a two person job. LOL
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Here come the cukes

Georgia Collards direct seeded

Romaine direct seeded

English Peas

All 50 of my tomato plants have maters on them

Time to start harvesting the Granex Onions

OOPPS

Another tomato pic

Here are two pepper plants that are planted ontop of a stacker

Love those berries

Peppers everywhere

Romaine from transplants

NICE! Great pics as always. Those look like Sweet Banana Peppers, are they? The 3 plants I grew did great for me last year.

EDIT: I scrolled up a bit and you did say Banana Peppers. Love them. Slap them on the grill......they get even tastier.

This message was edited Mar 19, 2009 6:56 PM

Bob, did you grow the romaine from seed and then transplant it?

Bob: Great looking veggies, great looking.
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Devota,

Sure did, all from seed

I like those peppers growing out of the top of that one stack. I hope you have a step ladder.

Bob: Yeah is it near the deep end of the pool in case you slip you can break your fall by diving into the pool?
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