I don't have too much to say. Except that I had to prune the tomatoes again. And I thinned them out. I got rid of three tomato plants. I hope I kept the right ones. It was way past time to clean out the reservoir again. So, while I was doing that, I took the time to take all the tomatoes out of their places. I also wanted to see if the roots were getting into places where they shouldn't go again. I had to pull the plants' roots apart to get them all loose. After I had them loose, I trimmed their roots back. I read somewhere that it is good to do this for tomato plants now and again. I also made some discs to cover up the empty spaced in the Aerogarden. After trimming, I put them back in some spots, took the reservoir back to the base, covered the empty spots so that the light wouldn't make algae grow in the water, filled with water, and there you go. I decided to wait to put plant food in the water. There's only a few days left until it's time to put some in anyway. I figure they can go for a little while without the plant food. So, there it is, some sick and one dead plant is out, hopefully this will free up space for the remaining plants to grow healthy for a while. I do think they're not going to last much longer, though. Well, that's it for today, I hope they survive my brutal treatment! Happy Tomatoing!
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Well, my toe is still not doing that great. I may have really broken it. If I rest it, it's OK. But if I walk around at all, it starts to get bruise-y again. I finally did chop back my tomatoes, though, on Saturday. I was brutal. You can see I pruned a lot. That poor tomato plant in the lower left....have you ever seen the King of the Hill episode where Peggy is hired to sub for a sex ed class, and she's practicing saying a certain word and Hank's getting all bothered about it while he's pruning the tree? That poor little tomato wound up that that. It's a goner. I'm thinking that if I was this brutal in the beginning I wouldn't be where I am now. I think that's what everybody needs to take away from my experience so far is that you need to go ahead and be brutal with your tomatoes in the beginning to get them to go where you want them to go. Don't wait until they're way up in the lights. Or, if you do, go ahead and prune. A lot. Early. I've decided I'm going to thin these plants down, keep one or two that are doing very well, and get rid of the rest. I may try to re-pot one, but due to the problems with a plant surviving the switch from hydro to soil I don't think it will end happily. I'm going to order some more seed pod things, maybe some peppers, maybe some without seeds that I can plant some of my seeds in. It would be interesting to see how the Echinacea does in the Aerogarden. I might try to start a pomegranate seed again, as a backup for the one that finally sprouted and seems to be doing OK. I want to eventually bonsai that one. That will be a project years in the making. From seed to bonsai tree. Wish me luck. At any rate, the tomato thing is going to go into a new stage pretty soon. I don't think I'm going to give up totally on tomatoes, but things are going to have to change a bit, I think. By the way, I decided the quilt I had under the Aerogarden needed a wash, so I put the aqua crochet doily under it again. I think it looks very nice. The jelly bean quit washed up very nicely, by the way. I was trying to decide whether to give it a light press or steam and forgot about it until just now. Ah well, that's a project for tomorrow. And that's it for today. Just remember: go ahead and be brutal with your tomatoes in the beginning so you don't wind up where I am, with a bunch of gangly hard to prune tomato plants that are driving you up a wall.
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October 2021
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