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Gardening

grasswire

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4. feeding with what?

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 30, 2015, 03:24 PM

Jun 2015

What should I buy?

Re: watering. I thought the idea was to deep water tomatoes and then let them sort of dry out before watering again. I have been watering every other day and it has been pretty damn hot here, too.

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I have some 20 year old hollyhock seeds... [View all] grasswire Jun 2015 OP

20 years is a long time for seed - but you never know. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #1

well, they have been in that envelope in a tub all the time... grasswire Jun 2015 #2

Oh yes! All of mine - all 90 - are in containers or bales - and they are getting twice NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #3

feeding with what? grasswire Jun 2015 #4

In the ground that is true to a point - if you let tomatoes visibly wilt when there are green fruit NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #5

I think I just need to get your book..LOL grasswire Jun 2015 #6

Fish emulsion is fine. Plant tone or tomato tone is fine - those are both organic. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #7

thanks grasswire Jun 2015 #8

They have germinated some lupine seeds that were > 10,000 years old Botany Jul 2015 #9