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bill:
well I have got four hundred tomatoes in cages with plastic bags around them and the first ones I planted are blooming strong I took about three weeks getting it all in so the last ones were only planted a couple of days ago. Here in midland it is very difficult to get tomatoes to set fruit as the springs turn into summer too quickly and when it gets too hot and windy the blooms dessicate (lose all their moisture) and fall off. For this reason we have to get them in and blooming before it gets to a hundred degrees We are also dealing with everyday winds of over twenty miles per hour up to forty or fifty. you gardeners know what that will do to a plant coming out of the greenhouse. anyway it takes care of a lot of the competition for selling them since there are a lot of crop failures.  I usually plant celebrities. but this year I have got carnivals either is a good tomato for this area. I am also putting in a few plants from an heirloom plant I got from the supermarket called big uglies. actuallly I got a couple of tomatoes for an exorberant price and saved the seeds out of lol. If it does well here I will go for it next year in a bigger way. I am still planting melons but the first ones I planted are up and have their third leaves. I am going to use a manure tea to fertilize them as I am trying to maximize the sugar content I will let you know how they tast later this year

Miss Chick-a-BEE:
We've got tomatoes going too - in our hydroponic set up. We chose something with the name "Moziac" in in it, and it's a virus resistant type. Here in Georgia we have a big problem with tomato spotted wilt virus from the thrip. The virus will rot all the tomatoes before they even rippen. We also started cucumbers, cantelope, and beans in the system (hydroponics). This is our first try with cantelope, so it'll be interesting to see how they do.

Beth

Chad S:
Bill would a determinant variety that stays close to the ground be better off in the wind.  I am using Oregon spring for the second season as my early tomatoe.  Not the greatest tomatoe in the world, but short season low to the ground does not require staking or a cage.  Just mulch them good to keep the fruit off the ground.  You may be able to get a crop out of it before it gets to hot.

Chad

bill:
well chad that is one that I am not too familiar with. I have planted carnival and I usually plant it or celibrity those are the best tomatoes for the simi arid areas like where I am at. I think diterminate really fust means that most of the crop comeoff at one time and indeterminate keeps putting on new fruit throughout the season. the larger ones are apt to crack badly here and those two are medium size and resist crackingI now have tomatoes the size of golf balls and some a little bigger. I will let you guys know how the year goes. I made more money on tomatoes last year than I used to make when I was working so I am going for broke this year I have about four hundred and fifty plants out now wit most of them either set fruit or just about to.this is my first year with melons I could have sold tonnes of them last year so if they go well I could have a good year.  they are what got me into bees as a melon grower told me if you grow melons you must have bees or lose forty=per cent of yield so I hope to sell honey too , you can tell I am getting anxious  I will tell you more later. laet me know how it goes with yours

Miss Chick-a-BEE:
Our gardening is going good so far. We just got the hydroponics started back up 3 weeks ago, and both the cucumber and cantelope have blooms. Some of those blooms are just begining to turn to the fruit too. But the tomatoes haven't started blooming yet.

Only problem we've had is that the tomatoes we bought from the local feed store had a fungus. It was either them or the pepper plants from the same store. It spread to the cucumbers and cantelope. So we've had to use a fungicide (which I hate using any chemicals), or loose all the plants. But my husband also learned that hydrogen peroxide works for mild cases of fungus on plants. So he only used the strong chemicals once, then switched to the peroxide to keep it under control. Plus with careful pruning of affected leaves and dipping the pruners in peroxide after each cut before moving to the next plant.

Beth

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