Tomatoes and Peppers

Some tomatoes are getting thrown in the ground today.

Still working on the hardening off!

same here

Watered mine yesterday, and I think they grew over night! At least I have cages around the tomatoes and cukes.

Put out more maters and planted some red bell peppers. Harvested some spinach today and had it for supper with grilled chicken. Still have more maters to put out....

Golly, I'd better PLANT some spinach!

My spinach and swiss chard is up about an inch or so. Can't wait to be picking it, too!

Well, eat that spinach because as Popeye once said, "Ug Ug Ug Ug Ug!"

;)

Some of the members of the mesculin mix have bolted. The swiss chard looks beautiful and the spinach is delicious. My peas have flowers. And the latest planting are breaking ground. I don't see the carrots yet and I forgot to plant the beets and radishes. Is it too late?

We had a terrible storm today. The hail lasted for 20 minutes the rain for 3 hours for a total of 3.5 inches. Freshly planted seeds are washed away, Boc Choi is flattened and the tomatoes are a mess.

Oh - what a bummer, Andy. I saw the hail during the Mets-Sox game.

I'm so sorry to hear that Andy! Anything you can save??

Wow, your storm was much worse than ours Andy. We only had an inch of rain but it was very hard and the winds were high. Sorry about your seeds and tomatoes. How frustrating.

that's tough andy - the storm missed us here to the north of the city

I have to get more cantaloupe seeds, they got washed away. My hostas are in shreads.
A tomato plant this AM, they all look like this.
Andy P

A river of hail stones seen from the front door.

Hens & Chicks on ice.
Andy P

I wouldnt worry about the tomatoe plants. They might have some tattered leaves or a broken side stem, they will pick back up and be fine.

Wow.

Wow, so sorry to hear about all the damage to your garden. I agree w/ schickenlady about the tomatoes; they can take alot.

We didn't have hail here, and I'm only 10-15 min. north of Andy.

wow that was really bad... so sorry

Well, we planted our eggplant(3 varieties, 12 plants); peppers(5 varieties, 42 plants); and our tomatoes(4 varieties, 32 plants). Lost one pepper to a cutworm last night,errrrr.
Glad they are in the ground. They always seem happiest there.
I'm trying the epsom salt and dried milk method this year( two tablespoons of each in the bottom of the holes). It's supposed to help prevent BER. We'll see!

strung up the t-plants yesterday in anticipation of this rain - started them back in Feb so they are already pretty big. i'll have to post the pole set up we use to hold these plants up.

I also figured on rain....so far just clouds and very slight drizzle. Well, at least it's not downpouring; I was just hoping for nice steady rain to get my hills and rows going.
Can't wait to see pics, wha. I haven't put in any poles yet for mine.

Not getting no veggies planted till probably Sunday !

We are supposed to have another dreary day tomorrow(Friday) but fingers crossed Sat and Sunday are sunny. Hope your weather is good over the weekend as well. :-)

i have my peppers in put them in 3 weeks ago i keep them covered with row cover i got from agway temp stays at least 10 degrees higher then outside temp thay get pretty hot during the day average temp is 121 degrees F high temp was 134 F i got blossoms on them very prode of my self will send photos when rain stops

My tomatoes are flowering! Why is red plastic allegedly better?

I bought some of that stuff and tossed it. They have different colors for different veggies. I found an article how they were doing studies on it at some university. Google different color plastics for growing veggies and you might find the article.

It came with my Earthbox. doesn't make ANY sense to me, but I wanted to use some plastic and I had it so I used it.

Different colors put out diff. amounts of heat. Black is alway hotter than white - right? I think white/ plastic is for broccolli and cauliflower. Red for tomats. There was one color plastic that did nothing, If I remember it was silver.

Sure, black is hotter than white, but red for tomatoes, green for green bell peppers, purple for eggplant and yellow for summer squash? It's too funny to be true! Don't worry, I used it.

Silver for dusty miller? Blue for fecus?

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Thought those colors would work.

No, blue is for blueberries and magenta for raspberries! (Thought we were sticking to edibles...?)

Silver?

Silver would REFLECT light! Doing no good at all!

Silver queen corn, of course.