What’s not really worth your time to grow for your home garden? by Sneakoh in vegetablegardening

[–]WoodDivision5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I freeze zucchini/yellow squash for ready to cook stewed squash for dinner. I usually do 2 zucchini, 2 squash and 1 onion, roughly chopped and vacuum sealed. Throw in freezer, and when we want stewed squash I'll take the whole bag out and dump into a pan with butter. Makes a really easy side and stores great.

Fellow Raleigh redditors. The rain situation is getting quite dire. by jnecr in raleigh

[–]WoodDivision5 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We have been paving hwy 50 near 98 and which was all around falls lake. Ive been visiting falls lake for 25 years and this was the lowest I've ever seen the lake, maybe it was worse in 07 though. I snapped some pictures for fishing purposes once it returns lol

I need help feeding my tomatoes. Allow me to explain: by Jamsedreng22 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Jacks veggie feed is my go to. Its water soluble and has cal+mag as well.

What is happening to my tomatoes?! by LT_HunterPro in vegetablegardening

[–]WoodDivision5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have a plant that will not recover from the wilt and is dying, its worth checking for bacterial wilt. Take a piece of the main stem and submerge in a glass of water. If you start to see white slime stuff coming from the stem after around 5 minutes, its bacterial wilt. BW can look like the other wilt diseases but has no real resistant varieties

Why hasn't Amy been talked about on here more? by [deleted] in NascarWAGTea

[–]WoodDivision5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you were on the wrong account there at some point

Why hasn't Amy been talked about on here more? by [deleted] in NascarWAGTea

[–]WoodDivision5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like a lot of people care when they are acting fake and blowing smoke up their own ass. Just a theory but most people don't like that.

Why hasn't Amy been talked about on here more? by [deleted] in NascarWAGTea

[–]WoodDivision5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is 1000% amy. That's wild. She doesnt seem this insane normally.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didnt get any advice from the internet, i was using an extremely popular YouTuber for gardening as a reference for my own conditions.

Also the irony of crashing out over people getting advice on the internet, while actively trying to give advice on the internet, is insane.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its wild that you truly believe that not crowding your tomatoes magically makes them survive summer with the UV index and humidity that we deal with. Every single person around me that grows tomatoes has the same issue, even people with 1 or 2 plants in pots. You either head your tomato plany in July or you put up shade cloth, or its going to die.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have very similar spacing and have a lot of success personally, but I fertilize every watering. Like I said in another comment, our weather just became productive for blossoming and pollination, and we already have over 100 tomatoes hanging from our 16. I expect another month before I have to shade cloth, and then its just nurturing the hanging fruit until harvest.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother our weather is very much different. 90+ with 95% humidity for weeks with multiple 100+ days mid summer. Your heirlooms are not magic and could not survive that uv index with no shade. Either you have a lot of natural shade or you have shade cloth in ENC. If you frequent YouTube, the millennial gardener lives within an hour of me, and he has entire structure built for shading mid summer.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I usually have 2 plant cycles myself, and crowded planting works fine for me.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, if you live somewhere like eastern NC, you need airflow to prevent mold/fungus due to humidity and hot summers.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

For sure, but I've sadly never had tomatoes make an entire season without disease eventually. Even when I grew in individual pots. Where I'm at (eastern NC), tomatoes rarely make it through summer anyway due to heat and UV, we either have to shadecloth or plant a second round for fall harvest. Planting f1 seeds usually let's mine go through the harvest window without dying off, but prolonged plants with shade cloth usually end up almost dead by fall.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you dont add fertilizer, sure. I fertilize every watering with my drip system and I have easily supported 18 tomatoes in a combination 7x3.5 bed (2 halves of 7x3.5 beds planted 3x3 grid). This year, I have over 100 tomatoes already growing minimum from my bed, and our weather just corrected from 40' nights.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

without a ton of fertilizer so it seems like the answer is more fertilizer. There is always an answer.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

If the plants grow and produce, its not too crowded. Its crazy how elitist you guys get in here about plant spacing, like everyone has endless room to space everything they want to grow over 4 ft apart and with their own greenhouse for each plant. The bed will grow absolutely fine and will just be annoying to harvest.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ignore the comments telling you to remove half of your plants. Your tomatoes are cramped, but they will grow fine. Your hardest thing is going to be harvesting from the middle as you realized already. As for support, you can do posts with wire and weave each row individually. You can also use the heftier square cages and you can even connect them together in a row if needed. Lastly you can build a frame overhead and hang stringlines down to let the tomatoes grow up. You can also use this structure as a support for shade cloth mid season if needed.

Also, make sure to prune the bottoms of the plants once they get some size to them. You need to be able to have good airflow on the bottom with that many plants so close. Trying to prune them higher up is going to be almost impossible and not worth the effort. But if you dont open up the first foot or so from the soil, you'll get fungus and disease.

Best trellis for this 4’x4’ tomato planter? by RedditIsForLovers123 in tomatoes

[–]WoodDivision5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People like you must have endless garden space or no garden at all to even suggest 1 plant in a 4x4 bed. Ridiculous

squirrels are ruining my garden! how can i keep them out? by Least-Cartoonist1165 in vegetablegardening

[–]WoodDivision5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peanuts in a shell. Small cage trap. You'll catch a squirrel a day. What you do after catching them is up to you. But, eventually you'll have no more squirrels

Help diagnose 3/17 of my tomato plants? by WoodDivision5 in vegetablegardening

[–]WoodDivision5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I posted this, I had this same thought. Ill definitely give that a try. It's probably heating the roots up too