Outdoor garden 2015 Tomatoes Sunflowers +

This year's crop will be a dozen heirloom pink brandywine tomatoes and six mammoth sunflowers. N' Maybe more stuff!

Some sprouting sunflowers! Got the time lapse on them. Full spectrum 100watts, from right to left: 420nm violet, 6500k, 450nm blue, 3000k.

TIMELAPSE ! of the tomatoes

cool time-lapses. I'm germinating some heirloom Black Krim tomatoes right now and will transplant them from the humid dome around march 20th. this is my first time planting these seeds!

I'll be starting some Brandywine tomatoes soon too. It will be my first time growing the Brandywine, they look like they produce some big tomatoes! Love the timelapses!

@mouse1818 heirloom tomatoes make a great garden best of luck!
@Dave's Not Here my one previous experience with brandywine yielded me 3/4 kilo tomatoes all late summer and taste great i hope you have similar results, best of luck! They love a 5 gallon hole dug each and/or down to the clay or stone layer in your ground in other words all topsoil dug up or tilled organic nutes will give best flavor. I planted seeds indoors Feb 28 and planted outside in the big 5 gallon hole .... April 20 .... organic nutes.. home liquified high nitrogen bat guano .. and home liquified wood ashes .. and other stuff ill post when I remember... this goes for you too @mouse1818 ! Thanks for the comments

@fridayfishfry your Brandywine's sounds as awesome as what I was reading about it when I bought the seeds. I usually grow Mortgage Lifters for my large sized, heavy producing tomato but want to try a couple different big tomato types this year. Ever grown Belgium Giants? I usually have 25-30 tomato plants. Thanks for the tips, I'm going to try adding some wood ash this year... what would you recommend? I was thinking about a cup mixed in per hole.

Haven't had experience with that type of tomato. I mostly just grew beefsteak untill this came long.

For fertilizing, the brandywine plants I kept in 1 gallon pots Feb 28 till April 20 indoors (lights/ window) and added a teaspoon of dried ashes but in liquid form & a teaspoon of dried guano but in liquid form at every watering. The plants didn't use much of it but i believe they had a core of nutrient filled soil to use up once in the ground. Feeding this way allows the activation of organic nutrients over time.

I put a dusting of guano in with the seedlings during transplant from the seedling tray (started from seed) to the 1 gallon pots

To answer your question:
I also dusted the 5 gallon hole every six inches of depth with the ashes and high nitrogen guano. After planting I didn't do much fertilizing that I remember I just watered them when they needed it. I cheated and used 5-20-15(?) twice; about 3 table spoons in 3 gallons for 6 plant each time.

The 1 gallon soil was used mushroom compost mixed with perlite used previously for mj. I think the main reason it works so well is that it has dolomite lime in it. I now stopped using the mush compost and use DOLOMITE LIME all my soil mixes. Use 1 cup (fine not pellet, pellet is for lawns) dolomite lime to 1cuft cubic foot soil (6~7) gallons. I say DOLOMITE LIME because other lime like quicklime will not work and will turn your soil into a toxic mess.

Hope this help,
fff

fridayfishfry said:

Haven't had experience with that type of tomato. I mostly just grew beefsteak untill this came long.

For fertilizing, the brandywine plants I kept in 1 gallon pots Feb 28 till April 20 indoors (lights/ window) and added a teaspoon of dried ashes but in liquid form & a teaspoon of dried guano but in liquid form at every watering. The plants didn't use much of it but i believe they had a core of nutrient filled soil to use up once in the ground. Feeding this way allows the activation of organic nutrients over time.

I put a dusting of guano in with the seedlings during transplant from the seedling tray (started from seed) to the 1 gallon pots

To answer your question:
I also dusted the 5 gallon hole every six inches of depth with the ashes and high nitrogen guano. After planting I didn't do much fertilizing that I remember I just watered them when they needed it. I cheated and used 5-20-15(?) twice; about 3 table spoons in 3 gallons for 6 plant each time.

The 1 gallon soil was used mushroom compost mixed with perlite used previously for mj. I think the main reason it works so well is that it has dolomite lime in it. I now stopped using the mush compost and use DOLOMITE LIME all my soil mixes. Use 1 cup (fine not pellet, pellet is for lawns) dolomite lime to 1cuft cubic foot soil (6~7) gallons. I say DOLOMITE LIME because other lime like quicklime will not work and will turn your soil into a toxic mess.

Hope this help,
fff

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I use the dolomite lime too, I've never used any of the other kind, thanks for the warning!

Here's what I'll be going for and similar as to how I did it last year, starting indoors in trays under fluorescents, I need to get on that like yesterday! Then as it warms up enough here I'll start taking them out into a mini hoop house built over a raised bed every day. As it gets warm enough to leave them out there at night I'll transplant most of them into solo cups so they can get a little growth spurt in before they go in the ground. Then I'll use the buckets as needed.

I have decent to good midwest soil, I dig a good sized hole in the ground, probably not quite 5 gallons, but I do think a digging a big hole and working the soil up well is one of the keys to success! I mix in some leaf compost from my pile and some dolomite lime... that's it, then I usually just water them... very irregularly I'll give them a little compost tea which is just compost out of my pile aerated in a 5 gallon bucket. I always have some wood ash though from burning branches etc. and was thinking I could add some of that!

Last year was my first year here so I just dug holes in the lawn, planted my tomatoes, then I put down cardboard and straw around them to keep the grass and weeds down, worked great.

Here's my tomatoes and veggies getting ready.

I make sauce and can. So my tomatoes are a bit different. I've got burpee super sauce (they get around 2 pounds per tomato) , Russian bulls heart( also a large 2 pounds tomato) and, san marzano.





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This will be my first time growing tomatoes from seed. I have on the way:
Cherry Sugary
Centennial Rocket
Prairie Pride
Black Krim
Black Cherry
Sunsugar
I really enjoy cherry tomatoes!

Cherry tomatoes always seem to grow rampantly. I love those sun sugars . I'm doing Russian Bulls heart, Burpee supersauce and San marzano. I make my own sauces and can them.

mwooten102 said:

Cherry tomatoes always seem to grow rampantly. I love those sun sugars . I'm doing Russian Bulls heart, Burpee supersauce and San marzano. I make my own sauces and can them.

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seen a ScroG with cherry tomatos once looked sick

mwooten102 said:

Here's my tomatoes and veggies getting ready.

I make sauce and can. So my tomatoes are a bit different. I've got burpee super sauce (they get around 2 pounds per tomato) , Russian bulls heart( also a large 2 pounds tomato) and, san marzano.

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Beautiful!

Thanks 90% of what was in there is now in the ground