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What we don't see is the real feed being fed to keep thouse birds thriving. Lol
When we fertilize with a "in ground" fertilizer we use either Down to Earth Bio-live or Mr. B's Green Trees.
We do use a liquid nutrient mix from General Organic and its there Go Box that I apply weekly.
The chicken settlers would have brought are very different fowl from what we have today. The more "primitive" chickens the they would have brought with them to North America were more like a Game Fowl, a hardy strain of chicken that didn't need a humans hand to care for them. Also these fowl had...
Just a quick update on how the girls are doing.
Everything is lookin good, good growth, good color and they seem to be doing quite well. The tomatoes are about 12 inches tall, 22 inches from leaf tip th leaf tip and stems are 3/8th of a inch. We had a heavy rain last night so the soil is plenty...
Here is some more information on the New Yorker tomato for you..
60 days, det., compact regular leaf plant with high yield of red medium size fruit, 3-6 oz, excellent flavor, sweet, meaty and juicy, keeps well after picking for several days, excellent variety for growing in northern or short...
Pop them in some 4 or 5 inch pots then hit them with some fish emulsion.
If you realy want the to grow you could add some alfalfa meal to the soil. The triaconatol in the alfalfa meal will give them a boost.
Most all lawn tractors that are sold at big box stores are all made by MTD. Look a the dealers. You may want to look into a Steiner, they have tons of power, lots of attachments, hydraulic steering and 4 wheel drive. You can get 3 different engines in them,
A Kubota 25 hp liquid-cooled diesel, a...
If your referring to the New Yorker tomato, there a "standard" tomato. Average fruit size is 4 to 6 oz and the New Yorker is said to resemble the Earliana tomato which is in the pedigree of the New Yorker.
The New Yorker is a (Geneva 11 x Rhode Island) x Fireball cross.
We decided to get a couple tomatoes in the ground today. Might be a pit early but these girls needed out of there 5 inch pots.
We put some hydroton at the bottom of each pot to aid in drainage.
Soil all mixed up.
For this mix we used:
Big Roots soil,
Roots Organic 707,
Fox Farms Ocean Forest...
The Root Pots from Roots Organic (Aurora Innovations) and my Big Rootz soil from Patrick (The Soil King) arrived so I am about to start miking some soil and filling the Root Pots.
My tomatoes are looking good and they need to get into these Root Pots soon. I checked the pots there growing in...
Just ordered five 30 gallon Root Pots for these girls. Along with ordering the Root Pots I also ordered the 3 cubic feet of Big Roots soil that we'll be using for our soilless mix for the Root Pots.
Soilless mix is going to be a mixture of 4 mixes :
-Roots Organic 707
-Big Roots
-Fox Farm...
For the past 3 years Ive been growing these tomatoes and each year I am more impressed with them.
History on the tomato :
Its said that the Campbell's Co. (later becoming the Campbell Soup Co.) bred this tomato and named the tomato after Dr. John Thompson Dorrance who developed there condensed...
New update on the tomato seedlings.
The 3 inch net pots that I transplanted into on Monday didn't last long and I had to do another transplanting today.
Today I planted into some 5 inch peat pots and this should buy me some time until the next transplanting.
Below shows one of the JTD tomatoes...
I was planing on doing a update today but after seeing what I saw in the "grow chamber" I decided I would.
Today I was checking on the seedlings and the seeds that I planted on the 24th and I saw some cabbage seedling and one tomato seedling emerging from the soilless mix.
Seeds planted this...