Comments on: Fresh From the Farmer’s Market Carnival #3

By: Tired Garden

Tired Garden — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:23:15 +0000

Dirty Fingers – Issue 3

Thanks for stopping by for the April edition of the Dirty Fingers Blog Carnival. We received several good submissions this month. I am sure you will find them all very interesting. I certainly did. Read them all, post comments on their sites, and enjo

By: maybelles mom

maybelles mom — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:29:09 +0000

every week keeps getting better. good job, jen.

By: Debs

Debs — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:06:31 +0000

Thanks for the great links once again! Food Is Love

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:33:43 +0000

Re: tomatoes —

have they started flowering yet? if so, you will need to help them along with pollination either by putting the plants outside so that the insects can do it, or lightly brush your hand over each of the blooming flowers and try to spread the pollen around.

Additionally, over-watering can cause the plants to grow big but with few tomatoes

You might also need to ’sucker’ your tomato plants — leave the main stem and 5-8 large branches, but snap off the others small branches at the stem — this signals to the plant that it’s done growing and will hopefully start to set fruit

Lastly, don’t let the plants grow too tall — I would pinch the tops off to encourage the plant to grow more bushy rather than tall — this tends to produce more tomatoes

I hope you’re tomatoes turn out well!!

By: katy

katy — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:12:45 +0000

Our farmer’s market gets better every week lately. I heard rumors of strawberries on Monday, but by the time I got there, they were gone.

I need some help though — I’m pretty sure my tomato plants are plotting world domination. They are like 4 feet tall and will not stop growing! And there are no signs of tomatoes thus far — just leafy masses that are trying to take over my apartment. Is this normal?!?