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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 3:57 PM
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My rule is to wait until April 10th, but put them in today.
Forecast is no more freeze this Spring.
I don't really get a jump start as mators don't take off until the ground temps are above 65.
I probably should have waited.
I mixed dolomite and organic fertilizer in the soil a couple weeks back.
1 - Goliath
1 - Big Beef
1 - Parks Whooper
1 - Big Boy
1 - Early Girl
2 - Sweet Banana Pepper
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CU Medallion [18156]
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Too soon Tug***
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Apr 1, 2025, 3:59 PM
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Re: Too soon Tug***
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:02 PM
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Maybe.
I plant in pots on the dock that gets full Sun all day.
Those are warmer now than the ground.
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1st Rounder [615]
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Re: Too soon Tug***
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:06 PM
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Those look like tomato trees.
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Re: Too soon Tug***
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:11 PM
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Tugaloo River Water
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Campus Hero [14012]
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Some of them leaves look kinda er exotic
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:57 PM
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Perhaps you slipped a recreational plant in with those maters.
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Game Day Hero [4185]
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Re: Too soon Tug***
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Apr 1, 2025, 5:08 PM
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I grew some Cherokee purples a few years ago. Ever try them?
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Cherokee purples
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Apr 1, 2025, 5:16 PM
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Have a neighbor that grows them and shares.
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Top TigerNet [30876]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:00 PM
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Being down here in the Charleston area, normally don't do tomatoes since I can drive to the mater shed in Johns Island and get the best tomatoes in the world. But I did bring home two better bush plants and hit the with the miracle grow. I pinched the first yellow flowers that grew and now I'm waiting for them to start putting off crop.
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:06 PM
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No shortage of excellent (real) mators in Oconee when in season, but I like to grow some every year.
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Ultimate Tiger [33434]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 5:37 PM
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Johns Island tomatoes are the best. Too bad a lot of those tomato fields now have apartments and condos on them.
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Top TigerNet [30876]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 7:24 PM
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It's turns my stomach...I wish Nana would have never sold her Dad's 18 acres off Brownswood...
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Ultimate Tiger [33434]
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Re: Mators are planted
Apr 2, 2025, 9:20 AM
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My brother and sister still live on part of the 10 acres my Dad had on River Road between Maybank and the airport. He told all of us that he would give us an acre if we wanted build a house there. Just didn’t work for me and my career. But I do go visit them often. Now there is a HUGE development across river road where it used to just be wetlands.
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Game Day Hero [4437]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 4:51 PM
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Good deal, good luck.
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Game Day Hero [4579]
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What's your secret organic fert recipe, if I may ask..
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Apr 1, 2025, 5:04 PM
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I like to add kelp and crab/lobster shell meal to the soil. The extra calcium prevents end rot but doesn't mess with soil ph. Chic manure works too.
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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doesn't mess with soil ph
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Apr 1, 2025, 5:27 PM
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If near me, Clemson will test your soil and advise what amendments to add. I have done this a couple times, drop off is off W Cherry Rd.
https://www.clemson.edu/public/regulatory/ag-srvc-lab/soil-testing/index.html
Or do this --> just assume your soil to lean acidic and in need of nutrients and a ph boost.
Dolomite is the best amendment.
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Orange Beast [6190]
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Re: What's your secret organic fert recipe, if I may ask..
Apr 1, 2025, 7:31 PM
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Rare in UpState SC if your soil PH is not acidic.
If PH is too far off, no matter the composition of your soil, plants cannot absorb the nutrients.
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Orange Beast [6190]
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Re: What's your secret organic fert recipe, if I may ask..
Apr 1, 2025, 8:21 PM
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Very true
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Orange Phenom [14582]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 6:14 PM
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I fear for your maters Tug. We've got the Dogwood Frost coming, the Strawberry Forst coming, all followed by the Blackberry Freeze the first week of May.
My dear-departed Aunt used to tell me..."Boy...don't you plant nuthin' till you see leaves coming on the walnut trees. They will tell you when winter is over!"
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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I fear for your maters
Apr 1, 2025, 6:26 PM
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Orange Blooded [2376]
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Another sure fire indicator..
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Apr 1, 2025, 9:01 PM
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It ain’t summer until the pecan tassels fall.
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Paw Master [17389]
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I have composted and plowed in some10-10-10,
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Apr 1, 2025, 6:26 PM
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will add some granulated lime the week before I plant! Compost and mulch has always helped mine the most!! Can't Wait!!!!!!!!!!!
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We finally managed to cross Bell Peppers with Tomatos
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Apr 1, 2025, 7:35 PM
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They have the flavor of a very sweet, but slightly bitter Cherry Tomato, and the texture of Lobster.
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Re: We finally managed to cross Bell Peppers with Tomatos
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Apr 1, 2025, 7:38 PM
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"WE" -- expand on that.
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TigerNet Champion [120853]
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Myself and the other former scientists at the USDA.
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Apr 1, 2025, 7:56 PM
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The Guatemalan government hired us to produce Hybrid plants, we are "The Island of Doctor Moreau" for botanists. We also have a Venus Flytrap that can catch and slowly digest monkeys, they are common here and eat our tomatoes.
Unfortunately, our creations will be available everywhere EXCEPT the US.
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Re: Myself and the other former scientists at the USDA.
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Apr 1, 2025, 8:02 PM
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Paw Master [17008]
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Re: Mators are planted
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Apr 1, 2025, 8:14 PM
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I put mine out Saturday. Betterboys, heirloom Cherokee purple, heirloom yellow, beefsteaks, and a couple different grape tomato varieties.
I put plenty of marigolds nearby and added the regular annual herbs to my perennial herb garden. I’m really loving my Lemon thyme.
I had to cut back my mint and spearmint. That stuff tried to take over my awesome herb garden!
Any tips for spider mites other than neem oil? I’ve had good luck with been but always have to thoroughly wash my herbs. I’ve tried tea with no real luck. I lost a huge hearty rosemary shrub a couple years back to those pesky mites.
You’re fine. No frost coming. (Knocks on wood). If you aren’t, I’m not!
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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spider mites
Apr 1, 2025, 8:31 PM
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Don't add this until all flowers have dropped.
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This weekend here
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Apr 1, 2025, 8:19 PM
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Or maybe next if we get the 10”+ of rain they are forecasting between now and Friday
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Commissioner [1282]
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Re: This weekend here
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Apr 1, 2025, 8:31 PM
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Your mater line up sounds like the Carolina women's basketball roster.
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TigerNet Elite [74642]
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Re: This weekend here
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Beautiful - excellent job.
I had similar raised beds here 20 years back, but now my place is shaded.
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Campus Hero [13964]
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Re: Mators are planted
Apr 2, 2025, 6:20 AM
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I planted probably 40 - 50 tomato plants this year. LOL
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Rival Killer [2811]
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Good luck!
Apr 2, 2025, 7:27 AM
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Hope yours do well! I plant Parks Shopper and Beefsteak.
I always seem to get wilt and some kind of disease, but manage to get a few tomatoes before that happens.
Hope yours are all well!
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All-In [11029]
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Mine are in too. No cherry mators? What are the dogs going to eat?***
Apr 2, 2025, 7:59 AM
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Orange Blooded [2512]
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Re: Mators are planted
Apr 2, 2025, 8:58 AM
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You are fine. Mine have been in the ground 2 weeks.
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