Comments on: My little plastic-free veggie garden http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/ Think we can't live without plastic? Think again. In 2007 I committed to stop buying any new plastic & I've almost succeeded! Won't you join me? Let's see what plastic-free looks like in 2012... for the health of our bodies, our oceans, our planet. ~Beth Terry Wed, 22 May 2013 08:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steph http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 Steph Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:28:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3631 I think I remember reading that Principe Borghese are supposed to be good sauce tomatoes, or good drying tomatoes, but not good eating tomatoes… a quick google search might help on that.

And I recommend You Grow Girl (www.yougrowgirl.com) for all your garden questions! :)

]]> By: Birthblessed http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3627 Birthblessed Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:13:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3627 I didn’t see this tip in the other comments.

Next time your tomato plant breaks, remove any leaves and small stems closest to the broken end, and plunge it into the ground near it’s mother with the broken-off top. It will root and become a whole ‘nother healthy, producing plant. I break at least one tomato every year- or my kids do. The baby just couldn’t stop plucking the pretty yellow flowers this year. Luckily next year she’ll know better. Right?

]]> By: For Us To Live http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3625 For Us To Live Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:46:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3625 I hope you don’t feel like you failed to do something right with many of your leaves turning dry and crispy as you mentioned. I and countless other gardeners have had this issue with tomatoes, and I found that the culprit were spider mites (nearly microscopic vampiric creatures that suck the plant dry one leaf at a time). Next year look for small yellow spots/discoloration and tiny red critters on the underside. You may need a regular treatment of Neem oil.

]]> By: Grovespirit http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3622 Grovespirit Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:24:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3622 OOps, I accidentally didn’t leave you a URL to contact me with!!

I’d love a reply… A method of emailing me can be found at:

https://auth.gardenweb.com/members/grovespirit

]]> By: grovespirit http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3621 grovespirit Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:18:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3621 Please do ‘bother with’ saving the tomato seeds!! It really isn’t all that hard to do. I will give you a link explaining the seed saving process below. :)

Saving your heirloom seeds keeps our food supply diverse, which is important.

The more varieties of a food crop we keep alive, the less likely we are to eventually wind up in a world where all tomatoes taste like cardboard because nobody bothered to save the tasty heirlooms.

Many seed corporations keep on selecting varieties for production, disease resistance, and good storage, while totally ignoring the flavor qualities of the variety.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out where that sort of trend could eventually lead us, does it.

Seed saving is worth your time too, since heirloom tomato seeds are more expensive every year.

Besides, if you save seeds you can trade the extras (the ones you don’t plan to plant yourself) for other heirloom veggie seeds.

Or you can donate the extras to a good cause.

Here’s how to save tomato seeds:
http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/seedsave/2002084456024410.html

If you’d like more information about seed swapping or would like a suggestion for an organization to donate extra seeds to, drop me an email. :)

]]> By: E http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3619 E Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:43:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3619 Don’t save seed from these as they are obviously not the greatest tomatoes. You’d only be setting yourself up for failure again next year.

Talk to local gardeners and find out what varieties they grow. Then you can grow these varieties yourself from seed. look for them at local stores or perhaps trade with others for them.

]]> By: kate in indiana http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3613 kate in indiana Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:42:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3613 I have three cherry tomato plants crammed into a giant container. I water them once a week when we don’t get rain, and I only water them down until an inch and a half of the soil from the surface is soaked. I fertilize with pasta water and Crunchy’s recommended golden fertilizer.

As far as composting goes, don’t do it. If your tomato plants happened to have disease this year, the disease can live on in the compost and will pass to your tomato plants next year. It can also infect potatoes and eggplants. I have a second compost pile I use for questionable plant materials that only gets used on my flower beds.

]]> By: Allie http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3605 Allie Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:26:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3605 Wow! I’m impressed with your larger tomatoes. I’ve never been able to grow those without them splitting before they ripen.

I don’t have any tomato advice. My cherry tomatoes went crazy this year, but I don’t know why. Making sauce was a very good thing for me.

]]> By: Vedrana M. http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3599 Vedrana M. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:21:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3599 hello,
I love your blog :)
My mom waters hers tomatoes in the (every) evening, when the sun can’t burn the water and them with it, and she plants them close together. In my country we don’t have those wire things, so she just ties them to a stick wgile they grow high. And I think she fertilises them too. I hope this helps :)

]]> By: Condo Blues http://myplasticfreelife.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-3597 Condo Blues Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:04:00 +0000 http://fakeplasticfish.com/2008/09/my-little-plastic-free-veggie-garden/#comment-3597 Another way to dry your herbs is to put them in a paper bag (I use a paper wine bag) to keep the dust off of the leaves. Shake the bag every so often so the drying herbs won’t stick together. It takes about a week for basil to dry this way and a little longer for mint. Probabbly because I have a lot of mint to dry for tea for winter.

If you don’t have enough tomatoes to can, you can freeze them. I just wrote a post on how to do this on my blog.

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