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As you can see from my photos Spring has arrived with a gift of color! Enjoy

Mr. Winter’s revisit to Texas had my tomatoes and I running for cover. The chill along made me pull out the heating blankets and keeping an eye on the temperature. As for my tomatoes an electric heater and a 1-in layer of sand over soil warming cable keep them happy.

How are you protecting your plants?

HI Gardeners! I hope that your week was filled with evey thing nice! I am happy that Spring is here and I have been celebrating by working in my garden all week planting flowers and tomatoes. A friend came over and we were talking about pest control for tomatoe plants. I told her that I plan to use Nematodes ... She told me that Nematodes would destroy the plant's root system! I was socked because I had place my order at the garden center.

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I live in Texas now and growing tomatoes are one of my passions. I love perparing the soil in the fall to insure a good crop the following year. Here are the simple steps that I take.



You should dig up your tomatoe plot and work it several inches deep, incorporating a 2 inch layer of compost and green manure into the soil. In early Spring rake in one pound of 5-10-10 fertilizer every 25 feet. Water well!



Buy seeds that are disease or pest resistance.

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I lived in Atchison,KS in 2006 and 2007 . I loved to drive the long country roads, I enjoy the endless fields of corn. I liked stopping at the country veggie and fruit stands, where you could find freshness at it's best. I also liked going to the Farmer's Market. I would talk with gardners about their love for the soil, you alway knew that they love gardening because they would pass on a secret or two... Here is one about "Supporting Heavily Laden Branches"



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