Gardening thread

[mr x]

Slowing reviving my green thumb, so I thought I'd throw out a thread.

Has anybody tried grafting vegetables? Tomatoes in particular. I've been looking into this a bit more, and might try it next year.

[spears104]

Grafting tomatoes? Meaning grafting different cultivars onto one stem? I've been growing tomatoes for a long time and I've never heard of this.

[mr x]

Grafting just about any cultivar onto a disease resistant rootstock, like Maxifort.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/t-TomatoGrafting.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good video.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/t-video_toma ... edTomatoes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ottiscan]

Has anyone else found it a bad year for toms? I'm usually swimming in them but this year they didn't do well at all.
Must be that artic spring we had.

[mr x]

Mixed results this year for me. Small yellows are looking good, but my olpaka's are in rough shape, lot of blossom end rot....

[Juniper Hill]

My garden is looking awful this year.
Tomatoes - way behind.
Raspberries - leaves yellowed and plants very look unhappy - think they have a virus, will likely have to rip out.
Elderberries - growing well but have to keep battling the deer and black aphids.
Hops (first year) - Hallertauer growing okay, cascades - some growth, Golding and Fuggles - never came up

Grapes doing quite well. Frontenac Gris seems to do well in my plot.

[akr71]

My tomato plants are all healthy looking, but very slow to ripen. I've only picked 2 so far and they were still a touch green (looking like they were going to split, so I grabbed them early).

What is on the plants is looking small.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

I've had a half dozen full size ttomatos, and probably 40 cherry tomatoes. My Roma's are still totally green of course

[mr x]

All my stuff is green too. I got them in way late....and I think deer ate the tops off a bunch of them.

[spears104]

Poor year for me as well. I had wheel barrows full of tomatoes last year. This year the plants are much smaller with few tomatoes. I'm finding it a poor year all around except for things that are virtually impossible to screw up like beans and peas.

[canuck]

Add me to the list of having a piss poor gardening year as well. I had a shit ton of tomatoes last year......so far this year I've picked a whopping 2 tomatoes so far. My potatoes, peas and beans have been doing well, but my other veggies not so well. Definitely my worst growing season so far.

[ottiscan]

I had to replant cukes after wind and rain in june, the toms are very under-performing though. Peppers (hot ban and sweet) are doing well, lost two to the wind. Swiss chard, spinnach did good. I hope next spring is warmer than this was.
Made one batch of hot pickles (pickles with hot peps) so far.

[gm-]

My tomatoes are doing awful, haven't had a single tomato this year. My herbs are doing great, and so are my raspberries.

[akr71]

My tomatoes are doing awful, haven't had a single tomato this year. My herbs are doing great, and so are my raspberries.

None of the herbs I started indoors early spring survived the transition outside. My raspberries ok, but not like last year, but I've never seen blackberry plants so loaded with fruit! Radishes were insane - some nearly the size of beats. Swiss chard, lettuce, peas and beans are fine. Carrots, cucumbers and turnips coming along, but most everything else is a little disappointing.

However, I'm selling fruits and veggies this year and I've already broken even without selling a single cucumber, tomato or potato (yet). Learning a ton about what sells and how much to plant and playing with succession planting.

[pvanberk]

I'm looking for two apple trees (I'm not too fussy about the variety) but they are out of stock at treetime. Any tips on other good places to buy apple trees?

[Keith]

I picked a Apple and Pear tree from Home Depot. Tree's looked really nice and healthy and appear to have taken. Will take a few years however before they will yield any fruit.

I picked up the multi fruit tree's, they are dwarf trees with a variety of apples branches grafted on. I picked up a tree that will allow me to harvest for a few months and not just 1 big load.

I think I may get a cherry tree next.

[jeffsmith]

I'm tempted because I have two cherry trees that were diseased and died off last year that I want to replace. I think I'll hold off until next year though as I'm replacing my fence this summer and would hate to damage freshly planted trees.

[akr71]

I picked a Apple and Pear tree from Home Depot. Tree's looked really nice and healthy and appear to have taken. Will take a few years however before they will yield any fruit.

I picked up the multi fruit tree's, they are dwarf trees with a variety of apples branches grafted on. I picked up a tree that will allow me to harvest for a few months and not just 1 big load.

I think I may get a cherry tree next.

How do you feel about teaching yourself some grafting? I have an august white, russet, a couple macs (or scotian - I'm not sure), honeycrisp (again, I think), ginger gold, red delicious, plus at least 6 more unidentified apple varieties.

... and more apple wood for smoking than I could possibly use in my lifetime.

[Keith]

Not sure I'd want to get into grafting myself. I think I'd like to leave that one for the professionals.

[mr x]

Orca bush beans.

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[CorneliusAlphonse]

My damn tomoto seeds won't sprout. Haven't given up hop, but its been 8 days.

[spears104]

Tomatoes take about a week to germinate. What temperature are the seeds at? Are they moist?

[CorneliusAlphonse]

They are moist, and at room temp, but the house is kept a little cool - about 15 through the day. I just used regular potting soil, and put the seeds just a few mm under cover.

[mr x]

Another 5 deg c might help. I use heated trays and they are great.

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