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We planted our tomato seeds today. We hope to have strong enough plants by early May that we will then plant outside. This will get us, hopefully, a few summer months of our own tomatoes. The last few years we were always late and did not get to harvest any until August. Now that my wife is done with Law School she can set aside more time. Last year we did not get any tomatoes until August. Gagrice I just read all the posts from last summer, very interesting, too bad I could not add our experience, since most probably we are in the same state. Very interesting though! Gagrice, I wonder how your plum brandy turned out!? That's one of my favorite, but have to order it from out of state. My dad makes his own grape brandy, and he's pretty good at it. We have our tomato seeds sent to us from our home country by my wife's dad. He has quite a yard. Last year we had some tomatoes that were over a pound each. I will try and post a picture in the next few days. We have had pretty good luck with the tomato plants, almost all that we grow survive and then when we plant them they produce pretty well, even if for only a couple of months. We also planted a few cucumber and zucchini plants with mixed success. Unfortunately, we live in a "nice" neighborhood so we are a little limited in expanding.
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Replying to: sky23213 (Mar 22, 2009 10:03 pm) We just planted 6 Tomato plants. Better Boy salad tomatoes. It is still cool at night slight bit of frost on the ground. They seem to be ok. I would like to start some heritage tomatoes from seed. Our plan is to build a large heated green house when we sell our other home here. Then use that for my tropical plants and starting seeds in the winter. We are planting most things in 55 gallon plastic barrels cut in half. It is harder for the squirrels and rabbits to get into. My big thing this year is planting purple potatoes. I have them in containers and in our big garden to see how they do. We will also grow sweet potatoes as they did very well last year. Our plum brandy is so good on ice cream. Our friends even bring ice cream when they visit. My wife made some bread and puts some of the peaches out of the peach brandy. It was so moist like a coffee cake almost. I only drink small amounts of the brandy as it is very sweet. best on pound cake or ice cream. We also planted Japanese cucumbers. My wife likes them the best and they are expensive in the stores. I just planted a blood orange tree for my wife. She had one at our other house and likes them also. We are getting this place in pretty fair shape. The plums are in full bloom and look better than last year. We have peaches about 3/4 " long on one of the peach trees the other is just starting to bloom. I love this time of year. I wish you the best of luck with your garden. Where is your home country?
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Replying to: gagrice (Mar 23, 2009 8:39 am) I just heard there was a flood warning in the county where Long Prairie is. Actually, I thought is was much closer to the Twin Cities. I hope everything works out and the farm is not affected by the floods! I never thought of plum brandy on ice cream  The one we get is by order from a store out state that imports it. My dad makes his own,but mainly grape brandy. My home country is Bulgaria. We manage to get seeds for some plants, tomatoes and cucumbers mainly, but haven't had luck with cucumbers that much. We planted two in improvised flower beds by the house and I think three more in a pot and let them crawl up on ties cross-tied on the deck posts. That was I believe two years ago and only the ones by the house rewarded us with some veggies. Last year as far as I remember we tried zucchini and they were OK. We just moved out some of the pots outside, we planted garlic for green top garlic, which unlike green top onion is not sold at stores. When I figure out how to post pictures, I'll post some. Good Luck! |
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Replying to: sky23213 (Mar 27, 2009 12:20 am) Trust me. 
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Somebody gave me a lovely orchid plant last year. I've taken great care of it and the plant looks healthy and lush---but after the first bloom it never gave orchids again. I'm wondering--do they like a tight pot or a lot of room in the pot?
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Replying to: steve_ (Mar 27, 2009 6:49 am) And in my house there's no such thing like running out of liquor
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Mar 27, 2009 7:32 am) link titleflower help
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Replying to: ray80 (Mar 27, 2009 10:01 am) I'm going to try the re-potting route. Thanks for that link.It was actually quite helpful.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Mar 27, 2009 11:34 am) PS I watched a re-potting demo at the Wild Animal Park one year. It does seem that is part of the secret to good blooms. I will try again when I get my fancy greenhouse built. |
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Replying to: sky23213 (Mar 27, 2009 12:20 am) Our neighbors in Long Prairie raised cucumbers for commercial pickles. They would end up with too many big ones and we ate more cucumbers than I like to think about. The little ones bring the best price. I could not find any news on flooding. I will have to call back there and check. Our farm is right on the Long Prairie River. We have about 50 acres of low land while the rest is up quite a bit higher. I have not been to visit the place in 25 years. They say it is changed a lot as I planted 3000 blue spruce around the property for Christmas trees then went back to Alaska. They should be pretty good sized by now. Hope you get loads of Tomatoes. They are so good for us men. I eat at least one a day as they are cheap here most of the year.
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