Since the list is so quiet, thought I'd share the latest on my exploits as a tomato farmer in beautiful SW Virginia. Not to sound (again) like an ad for the "Topsy Turvy" planters, but my upside down tomato plants are growing like crazy! I have 3 planters up and each of the plants are at least 4 feet long or more now. I have about a dozen tomatoes growing on the "Big Boy" plant and 7 or 8 on the German pink one. The Mr. Stripey plant is just now starting to flower. My cherry tomato plant that's in the ground is covered up in fruit. There's got to be at least 100 little maters all over it! Just picked a nice red one and ate it on the spot! Sweet as candy! I bought that plant at Lowes and it has grown like nothing you've ever seen. It's about 6 feet across now--one plant!!! My other plants in the ground that I started from seeds are all starting to flower now, too. If I just get one tomato off those plants, I'll feel like a real sucess because I never grew anything "from scratch" like that before. Those were seeds I saved out of nice tomatoes we got at the local farmer's market last summer. Forgot to mark the bags, though, so I don't know which plant is which and could end up with red, yellow or dark purple maters when they come in! It'll be a surprise...LOL. Guess I could also do a good commercial for Miracle Grow "shake and feed." My mother in law put out tomatoes about the same time as mine, but didn't use Miracle Grow garden soil or the fertilizer and her's are about half as big as mine. That stuff really works! So any way, I'm now officially a Virginia farmer...ha!

I have been eating Tomatoes from my plants here in Ohio since 4 July ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kat Fulcher" <[email protected]> To: "vafloyd" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:28 AM Subject: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--mater growin' > Since the list is so quiet, thought I'd share the latest on my exploits as > a > tomato farmer in beautiful SW Virginia. > > Not to sound (again) like an ad for the "Topsy Turvy" planters, but my > upside down tomato plants are growing like crazy! I have 3 planters up > and > each of the plants are at least 4 feet long or more now. I have about a > dozen tomatoes growing on the "Big Boy" plant and 7 or 8 on the German > pink > one. The Mr. Stripey plant is just now starting to flower. > > My cherry tomato plant that's in the ground is covered up in fruit. > There's > got to be at least 100 little maters all over it! Just picked a nice red > one and ate it on the spot! Sweet as candy! I bought that plant at Lowes > and it has grown like nothing you've ever seen. It's about 6 feet across > now--one plant!!! > > My other plants in the ground that I started from seeds are all starting > to > flower now, too. If I just get one tomato off those plants, I'll feel > like > a real sucess because I never grew anything "from scratch" like that > before. Those were seeds I saved out of nice tomatoes we got at the local > farmer's market last summer. Forgot to mark the bags, though, so I don't > know which plant is which and could end up with red, yellow or dark purple > maters when they come in! It'll be a surprise...LOL. > > Guess I could also do a good commercial for Miracle Grow "shake and feed." > My mother in law put out tomatoes about the same time as mine, but didn't > use Miracle Grow garden soil or the fertilizer and her's are about half as > big as mine. That stuff really works! > > So any way, I'm now officially a Virginia farmer...ha! > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.6/1894 - Release Date: 01/14/09 19:27:00

Hi Kat; How I envy you !!! I have two "Topsy Turvy" plants and they are pathetic - Instead of growing down these suckers are growing upward - a few pitiful blooms, leaves wilted - I guess like most of us this 100+ heat is getting to them. Was 108.8 at 3:30 yesterday on the back side of my house. Please "Carry me back to old Virginny" Connie On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Kat Fulcher <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the list is so quiet, thought I'd share the latest on my exploits as > a > tomato farmer in beautiful SW Virginia. > > Not to sound (again) like an ad for the "Topsy Turvy" planters, but my > upside down tomato plants are growing like crazy! I have 3 planters up and > each of the plants are at least 4 feet long or more now. I have about a > dozen tomatoes growing on the "Big Boy" plant and 7 or 8 on the German pink > one. The Mr. Stripey plant is just now starting to flower. > > My cherry tomato plant that's in the ground is covered up in fruit. > There's > got to be at least 100 little maters all over it! Just picked a nice red > one and ate it on the spot! Sweet as candy! I bought that plant at Lowes > and it has grown like nothing you've ever seen. It's about 6 feet across > now--one plant!!! > > My other plants in the ground that I started from seeds are all starting to > flower now, too. If I just get one tomato off those plants, I'll feel like > a real sucess because I never grew anything "from scratch" like that > before. Those were seeds I saved out of nice tomatoes we got at the local > farmer's market last summer. Forgot to mark the bags, though, so I don't > know which plant is which and could end up with red, yellow or dark purple > maters when they come in! It'll be a surprise...LOL. > > Guess I could also do a good commercial for Miracle Grow "shake and feed." > My mother in law put out tomatoes about the same time as mine, but didn't > use Miracle Grow garden soil or the fertilizer and her's are about half as > big as mine. That stuff really works! > > So any way, I'm now officially a Virginia farmer...ha! > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm<http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Evafloyd/floyd.htm> > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >