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Our soil (if you want to call it that) is just nasty. There's a layer of clay that jackhammers won't cut through followed by a layer of sand and then I'm almost sure you're right on bedrock. My little Mantis eats it up! I like my Mantis because I can start the thing, I can lift it, I can push...

I can lots and lots of tomatoes so I plant about 60 paste tomatoes and another 25 regular tomatoes for salads and slicers though they often end up in my canning as well. My favorite pastes are Mom's Paste, Opalka, Amish Paste, Polish Linguisa and Roma in that order.

With things the way they are with the economy these days I'd go ahead and use it on seed for next year. The seed companies are actually running out of product because the demand is so high so next year I'll bet seed will cost much more than this year. If you put the seeds away in a cool, dark...

It means that you don't need another tree as a pollinator it will bear fruit all by itself.

My companion planting guide says to keep potatoes and tomatoes far apart.

I grow a LOT of Amish paste for my canning and they are lovely.

A lot of the fruits and vegetables that are grown for the supermarket were specially made to travel and pack well (i.e. tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, etc) and in hybridizing them for that purpose a lot of flavor and even nutrition has been sacrificed. You'd do much better to join a seed...

If they're leggy you've gotta start toughening them up for hardening. You can start with just brushing them a few times a day with your hand or get a fan to blow on them, start with a weak breeze and get it up to a good blow over the course of a couple weeks. Sounds stupid but it does help...

I've got over a hundred tomato seedlings down in my grow room in the basement. Still have another couple hundred to go and then I have to start on peppers! Yowsa, I should be planting not playing on here! LOL!

We have phenomenal harvests from Rutgers. Lots and lots and lots of medium sized tomatoes with wonderful flavor, no cracking and nice dense bush size instead of the huge, sprawling vines that we get from some of my other favorite tomatoes. Now, that said, it's all going to be dependent upon...

Here's my 2009 tomato master list. This is what I'm planting this year: Some of these go to customers and ALL hybrids go to customers. I've marked the ones that are pastes and all of them are tried and true favorites. 2009 Master List Red brandywine-heirloom-tomatomania...

Only one??? You've got to be kidding! Well, I do a LOT of canning so my favorite tomatoes are pastes and my favorite paste is called Mom's paste. Some paste tomatoes are so meaty that there's NO juice and very little flavor but Mom's has a very nice balance. My favorite slicer.....Kellogg's...

We used five gallon buckets and planted tomatoes and peppers in them. I wasn't terribly impressed with my tomato harvest out of the upside down planters. The fruits were smaller and overall production was less than what I got out of the same breed planted in the ground. The PEPPERS on the...

Y'know, I've heard of some people down your way who have great results with direct sowing. Me, I can't do that because of my short growing season. But here's how I do it: I use a seed starter mix in little plastic nursery cells. I do not use a heating pad. We have shelves built with regular...

We ordered from them a few years ago and had some nice trees. We are planning to place a BIG order with them in a few weeks.

YES! I'm fixin' (Texas term) to get started planting my precious tomato seeds because I'm betting that my super-o cool-o greenhouse/hoophouse will protect my babies when it's time for them to go outside.

Someone told me that Yukons made fantastic chips.

I noticed the other day that a bag of hard red wheat berries in the store (Bob's? was the name on the bag of wheat) says that it can be sprouted for salads. Well, if it can be sprouted for salads it can be sprouted in the garden! Might be a way to go.

We have thousands of nursery pots to get rid of. I don't know what it would cost to ship them. They're very, very light of course but somewhat bulky but if you want me to check shipping costs I'd be glad to. If you're in Colorado I'm sure we can work something out. Anyway, there's every size...

We have the same problem at our house but it's a much larger embankment. The only thing we've been able to come up with so far is trying to make some kind of terrace set up where we build up a series of walls and add dirt and compost to make a stable area for growing. Haven't done it yet...