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Comment by Muriel Fish on April 1, 2010 at 11:02am

Does anyone know if organic potatoes are treated with a sprout inhibitor like conventional potatoes? I'm having trouble finding potato starts and was wondering if organic potatoes would work. Also, in zone 9, what kind of potatoes are easiest to grow? I'm using them to cleanse the soil.

Comment by lynda o z4or5. on March 31, 2010 at 7:40pm

we grow about 32 tomato plants. i can for the whole year. two early plants are ready to go in. we use walls of water. the walls are set up so the sun can warm the water. it was 74 here today. also have radishes ,spinach and lettuce in. the 60 feet of garlic are about 5inches tall.

Comment by Muriel Fish on March 31, 2010 at 4:31pm

Sorry Blues Baby:-( We had a huge rainstorm last night on our freshly plowed soil. I was able to get the strawberries in the ground in the area that I added the sandy loam to. The rest is too mushy to dig in the loam. The sun is out today so the garden is very seductive. Filled in the empty spots in the peas row with my "just in case" pea starts. Last year about a third failed to show in the ground planted peas. This year all but four came up. I took the extra ten "just in case" plants and planted them on either side of a trellis. Tomato plants are starting to really grow! Now if we can just hold off on any more rain until I can get the loam dug in We'll be set.

Comment by Rachel on March 31, 2010 at 2:12pm

Dale, get a seed heating mat and use a soil mix that doesn't contain any peat in it.

Comment by Dale LaForest, zone 8 VA on March 31, 2010 at 1:53pm

Bluesbaby, have you any tips for starting peppers? Every seed I've tried to start this year has gone nowhere! I really want to add them to my garden, too. Someone on here did say that they don't like those peat pellets. Any other suggestions?

Comment by Anne Chastain on March 31, 2010 at 11:11am

I envy you your tomato bounty. Tomatoes are dicey in my area. I grow starts indoors, put them out as soon as the ground warms up, keep them covered with plastic over the trellis until July, plant the shortest season tomatoes possible, plant in the warmest, sunniest ground I own and it's still a race to see if the tomatoes ripen before they freeze. But broccoli....... I know more ways to prepare broccoli than Bubba had shrimp recipes!

Comment by Muriel Fish on March 31, 2010 at 11:01am

When my tomatoes come on it's like Bubba Gump and his list of shrimp dishes: tomato soup, tomato pie, tomato ketchup, dried tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato salad, brioled tomatoes on a tortilla . . . I barter with my hair dresser, organic veggies for hair care.

Comment by Charlie Patin Z8 TX on March 30, 2010 at 8:49pm

LOL Connie, I give them away, eat a lot and can a lot. Sometimes during tomato season I'll eat tomatoes 3 times a day. That means a whole tomato three times a day and sometimes between meals. Sometimes for lunch a tomato cut up with salt, pepper and olive oil and a slice of whole wheat toast is my lunch. They rarely go to waste here. I'm thinking of trying to sell some at a small local farmers market. BTW Connie, we'll be up your way next week. The TX ST. Master Gardeners conference is at the Omni in Irvin. We're taking our coach and parking on Grapevine Lake and I'll attend from Thurs. to Sat. Then will visit our son in Flower Mound a couple of days before heading back here on Mon.

Comment by Dale LaForest, zone 8 VA on March 30, 2010 at 7:21pm

Good luck, Sheryl! A greenhouse would probably make growing easier with those prarie winds blowing all the time!

Comment by Rachel on March 30, 2010 at 4:56pm

We're growing 24 tomato plants this year. Most of the tomatoes will be processed into sauce, paste, sundried, and ketchup.

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