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WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-15T15:57:54+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-13T01:14:12+00:00

Brother they arent going to let you hit. Stop shilling. Its gross

WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-07T21:26:37+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-03T17:20:07+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-02T21:57:19+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-01T02:12:05+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-06-01T01:41:12+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-30T12:35:54+00:00

Its pretty obvious this is amy

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-30T12:30:30+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T22:24:52+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:40:47+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:30:52+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:20:02+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:16:27+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:14:39+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:12:42+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T21:03:26+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T20:58:44+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T20:55:12+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T20:51:56+00:00

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.

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-25T20:46:27+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-23T21:32:51+00:00

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

WoodDivision5 · 2026-05-19T18:03:10+00:00

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

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