Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[farmgirl19]

OK FG, tell me agian how to plant them tomatoes, worked pretty good last year, bury them to the armpits right?

Yep! Remove all of the bottom leaves, and plant them to the level of the top leaves that remain. Good for growing lots of root structure and making sturdy stems!

 

[Bird]

Yep! Remove all of the bottom leaves, and plant them to the level of the top leaves that remain. Good for growing lots of root structure and making sturdy stems!

Do you stand them up straight? I've posted this before, but the guy who owns the nursery where I used to buy plants said for tomatoes, lay the plants down horizontally to cover the roots, then bend them upright and pack the dirt around the stalk. That really surprised me, but it worked great. But yes, he did remove the lower leaves first.

 

[NativeSon]

Do you stand them up straight? I've posted this before, but the guy who owns the nursery where I used to buy plants said for tomatoes, lay the plants down horizontally to cover the roots, then bend them upright and pack the dirt around the stalk. That really surprised me, but it worked great. But yes, he did remove the lower leaves first.

Bird, That's the way I've done it and it works great. When I pull up the plants at the end of the season the root system is huge. I try to find tall (leggy) Tomato plants........I like my tomatoes like I like my women, Leggy.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

Bird, That's the way I've done it and it works great. When I pull up the plants at the end of the season the root system is huge. I try to find tall (leggy) Tomato plants........I like my tomatoes like I like my women, Leggy.

Charlie

Charlie, I used to pull tomato, corn, and okra stalks, but then I quit doing that. When the tomato plants grew out through the cages, at the end of the season I'd chop them off with a machete. That made it easy to pull the cages. Then I'd set the rotary cutter down low to the ground and mow everything down, and of course that chopped it up a bit, too. And then I'd till it in. Even those big old heavy roots and stalks of the okra and corn would be decomposed and gone by the time I was ready to plant the next Spring. That was a lot less work.

 

[bindian]

My son and his wife where in KY last weekend for George Strait concert .. Front row tickets and she got ...

Oh WOW. That is something. Front row seats are $$$$.......that is 4 digits. I have seen him throw his hat into the crowd, but WOW. My daughter is gonna have a hissy when I show her this. That hunk of wood and string will be good for $$$$$ some day. Maybe more.

hugs, Brandi

 

[Lou66]

I was out at the land yesterday,, had a few jobs I was taken care of,, Decided I would stop for hour or so and have a couple of cold ones,, Which I did.. Because I am my own boss out there.. Anyway I had one more task to do in the back pasture..

Own my way out to the back I got to thinking.. Who in the world names a goldfish?.. I mean a goldfish is about as smart as a blade of grass,, You could never teach it to roll over or set like a dog.. I bet you could holler its name all day and it would never come or even know you are talking to it,,

All it is,, is someone or somethings lunch.. I thought to myself you would have to be dumb to name a fish.. as l poured Bonnie and Clyde into the water tank to take care of the algae this summer.. Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

I have some named Goldfish too! They can be fun, and soothing to watch. It is when I watch the dadgum egrets going after my goldfish that it is no longer relaxing. And WHY are egrets protected anyway. They have overrun the region here!

 

[Lou66]

This is Lloyd and Floyd that were locals..

This is Jose from the valley,,



No one told him about the law.:shocked::laughing:. Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

I hope Jose drowned while trying to fish there! :laughing:

Of course, I could say the same for Floyd and Lloyd. It would be hard to get a shot on one, as wary as those birds are around here, but it stinks that I can't even try.

 

[farmgirl19]

Do you stand them up straight? I've posted this before, but the guy who owns the nursery where I used to buy plants said for tomatoes, lay the plants down horizontally to cover the roots, then bend them upright and pack the dirt around the stalk. That really surprised me, but it worked great. But yes, he did remove the lower leaves first.

I stand mine upright when planning. I think it is easier for me to plant them that way by hand.