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Old May 19, 2011   #1
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4 gallon potted tomato plants. Big Beef, Brandywine, Trip-L-Crop, Giant Tree,
OP Big Beef, Better Boy

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Old May 19, 2011   #2
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Fruit produced that are growing in the 4 gallon pots.
Trip-L-Crop

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Old May 19, 2011   #3
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Brandywine fruit

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Old May 19, 2011   #4
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4 gallon pots
Pro Mix BX
Fertilizer= 13=13=13, micro nutrients, epsom salt, calcium nitrate
Watered every morning manually
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Wow, what are the micro nutrients?
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Old May 19, 2011   #6
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Your plants look great!
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Wow, beautiful!
Either you have extremely tiny hands or some monster tomatoes there
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Beautiful plants and photos! Bravo!
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WOW.... if mine look half as good as that I will be thrilled LOL!
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Carolyn,

Can you share with us how much and how often you apply the Epsom Salts and Calcium Nitrate "snack"?

thanks,

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Beautiful! Great job Carolyn!
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Oh man. Drooling here. Brilliant job!
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HI Carolyn,
I don't suppose you could post some more pictures of your greenhouse...it looks very nice inside there with all your plants.
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Old May 20, 2011   #14
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That is a very nice greenhouse. And, the tomato plants look great.
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Here comes a bunch of details.

Every Spring we get tornado weather, windy thunderstorms and hail storms.
Every Spring my tomato plants and other veggies get beat up by all the storms and a few frost bites. I designed and built a greenhouse to protect my tomato plants. I designed it so the poly roof would stay on year around but the side wall poly comes off and the ends up to the roof comes off. All the poly is attached with wire lock system for easy removal. The greenhouse is 24x75.
The side wall poly comes off in 3 different 25 ft sections so that I can gradually remove the poly as the temps warm up or I can detach and lower the poly in sections to allow air flow. By Summer all the poly walls are off and 30 % Shade cloth is put on the poly roof to lower the heat and prevent fruit sun scald.
The poly walls are made of 4x4 post that are concreted into the ground. I dug all the holes and concreted them myself with occasional help. My husband set the roof rafters.
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