Moslty Everything to Know About Determinate Type Tomatoes

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening Tips There are basically two types of tomatoes. They are called determinate and indeterminate. Sometimes you will find a tomato billed as semi-determinate but don't worry about that one. A determinate tomato grows to...

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Tomato Leaf Burn: Baking Soda and Wettable Sulphur Sprays FYI

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThis is an FYI entry with a video. I effectively attempted to defoliate my tomatoes by spraying them with baking soda spray. Hmmm...My original preventative spray was 2 tablespoons of baking soda per 1 gallon of water....

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The Rusted Garden's Name and Objects

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsBetween seed starting, planting,  and tending... I often leave out my shovels, clippers and tools. They rust. Along...

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Tending Zucchini Grown in Tomato Cages and Squash Bugs

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThe time has come for the dreaded squash bugs to start laying eggs on the underside  of your zucchini an squash leaves. I have found 3 sets so far on my zucchini leaves. A tip for space management is to grow...

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Pruning Tomatoes to Single, Double and Triple Stems

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsTomatoes are vines that can be pruned and maintained. Pruning is often done for disease control and overall plant management. Pruning your plant by removing 'suckers' actually removes future additional stems that will...

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Blackberries in the Garden Too!

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsAlthough I won't get a lot of these due to the birds... Don't forget you can grow raspberries, blueberries and other...

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Yellow Cuke Leaves? Epsom Salts and Magnesium

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsI shot a YouTube Video on Yellow Cucumber Leaves and Magnesium.A general yellowing of the bottom leaves of cucumbers...

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Growing Zucchini in Tomato Cages: Squash Bug Prevention

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsOne way to tame your zucchini is to grow it up a large tomato cage. You do have to secure the cage down with posts....

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Tomato Progress at The Rusted Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThe progress of some of my tomatoes as of June 16th.This group of tomatoes had the bottom leaves pruned out and a grass...

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Some Facts for Growing Vegetable in Containers

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThe container is the key to successful container gardening. You have to image the vegetable plant at full size when planting your vegetables. All seeds will grow in a cup but most mature vegetables won't survive in a...

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Video:An Early Update on My Self Watering Tomato Containers

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsContainer tomatoes are a challenge because the summer heat can dry them out in a day. If tomatoes dry out for 1 day, they will be damaged. I created these self wicking watering containers to grow tomatoes and other vegetables....

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Blood Beets and Black Kale: Varieties from Catalogs

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsIt is fun to plant other varieties of vegetables that you can only get through seed catalogs. This is a beet variety...

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Concord Grape Vines in the Rusted Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsI have a couple of grape vines in my garden. The Concord grape is by far the best. Sweet and it does well against disease....

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4 of 6: Tending Tomatoes Blossom End Rot and First Fruit Fertilizing

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThis is my 4th video that highlights the growth and tending of my original hot-house tomato the 'black krim'. The link will show you a video of the original plant and how to build a hot-house tomato cage.The essentials...

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Brief Tomato Plant Update: Aspirin, Baking Soda and Disease

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsImportant: On June 20th my tomato plants suffered some phytotoxicity which is a fancy way of saying the leaves got burned by a chemical.  I have been applying baking soda at 2 tablespoons per gallon of water since...

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Revisit: Identifying Leaf Spot on Your Tomato Stem and Scraping It

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsFirst off, I am not sure this is Septoria. I believe it is. It is a spot disease. These plants had spots on the leaves...

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Part 2 of 2: Filling a 4x4 Vegetable Garden Raised Bed - Lasagna Style!

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThe idea behind a layered or lasagna raised bed is to fill it with what you have available. It is designed to make filling...

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Cure Yellowing Cucumber Leaves with Epsom Salt aKA Magnesium Sulfate

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThe video describes the process but if you have a general yellowing of leaves, starting from the bottom of the plant, it may be a magnesium deficiency. The entire leaf should look similiar in that it is getting yellow,...

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Quaker Soft Baked Bars and the Morning Garden

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Quaker Oats for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. My weekend mornings often start with  a walk through my vegetable garden.  I enjoy seeing the progress of my labor. The garden is fully awake with sights and sounds....

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Soil Splas and Tomato Diseases Like Blight and Leaf Spot

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening Tips This video will show you what soil splash does and explain to you how it can cause the spread of disease through your tomato plants.Vegetable plant diseases like blight and leaf spot are spread through spores. It...

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Part 1 of 2: Creating a 4x4 Raised Vegetable Garden Bed

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsI created another raised bed in a section of my yard that was nothing more than grass. In pictures, here is the process...

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Video: How to Create a 5 Gallon Self Wicking Tomato Watering Container

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsI just set up 4 self wicking containers today. This system will provide your tomato with consistent water and help prevent total drying out of the container. I shot a video on how to build the system. It only costs...

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Transplant and Grow Leeks: They Are a No Fail Vegetable

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsLeeks have my vote for the hardiest vegetable out there. They over winter in Maryland Zone 7. You can actually harvest...

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Disease Prevention Spraying Schedule: Aspirin, Baking Soda, Foliar Feeding

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsImportant: On June 20th my tomato plants suffered some phytotoxicity which is a fancy way of saying the leaves got burned by a chemical.  I have been applying baking soda at 2 tablespoons per gallon of water...

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My Dog Lucky Loves to Eat Peas Off the Vine

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on TwitterTwitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThis my dog Lucky. She loves to eat everything in the garden. Peas are her favorite. Maybe she can help inspire a kid you might know to try peas. If a cute little dog will eat them maybe the child will give them a try....

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