Comment: How do you grow tomatoes in South Florida?
More Naples gardening tomatoes notes:
Tomatoes won't blossom when it's 85 degrees out or higher.
For my tomatoes, my problems have been in past years:
nematodes
aphids
catipillers and other leaf chewers.
Sevin dust never worked for me. This year, I will try mathalon (but I need to make sure it's safe first).
I am also going to try gardening under where our pool WAS this summer, while meanwhile preparing the soil in the old garden area by:
1) mowing it down
2)rototilling and raking out old weeds + roots (where the nematodes live
3) putting down lots and lots of cheap bags of composted manure
4) setting down plastic to kill the nematodes for two months.
If I could bake the dirt, I would.
[Review in RDF] Tomatoes won't blossom when it's 85 degrees out or higher.
For my tomatoes, my problems have been in past years:
nematodes
aphids
catipillers and other leaf chewers.
Sevin dust never worked for me. This year, I will try mathalon (but I need to make sure it's safe first).
I am also going to try gardening under where our pool WAS this summer, while meanwhile preparing the soil in the old garden area by:
1) mowing it down
2)rototilling and raking out old weeds + roots (where the nematodes live
3) putting down lots and lots of cheap bags of composted manure
4) setting down plastic to kill the nematodes for two months.
If I could bake the dirt, I would.
by Udut, Kenneth on Oct. 14 2009
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