Any gardeners here?

[DrKym]

Im reading this post buried in my seed catalogs, and bushe catalogs and and and ........I love gardening, it was one of the things I adored sharing with my gramma. Jas is sweet enough to a lot of the inside chores spring thru fall so that I can spend a lot of time on the yard and the garden!

I much prefer outdoor chores to housework anyway!

Lets see this year I have planned a raised bed herb garden, a veggie garden in last yrs spot as it did pretty well. A new flower path and some creepy moss for the walkways upstairs out back


last fall I ordered several heirloom roses and an heirloom gardenia set, so lets see how those do when they arrive.

I will need to really work on composting this year as I got really lazy about it last year.

I will be replanting the outdoor aviary this spring again so the birds will have new funzies to tear up when they go to the play pen outside.

I also am going to try the lemon tomatoes this year , our big boys and the cherries did soooooooo well that I would like to add another variety this yr.

[KitCat]

Tomatoes work good in containers. That way you have good soil free of pests.

Tip: Plant seeds in containers and keep moist. Planting in the ground doesn't give the moisture most seeds need.

Here is my garden site:
http://www.flowerfancier.com/

[borzoimom]

Tomatoes work good in containers. That way you have good soil free of pests.

Tip: Plant seeds in containers and keep moist. Planting in the ground doesn't give the moisture most seeds need.

Here is my garden site:
http://www.flowerfancier.com/

Help me out kitcat. Last year we used like 5 ga. white buckets ( saw it on diy gardener thing) , drilled holes in the bottom- and put in 3 plants. ( small ) then hung from a anchor in our screen porch. The porch gets morning sunlight. ( until like 12pm). We used miracle grow with water for tomotoes.. They all died..
What did we do wrong? We can not plant them outside in the yard- as the deer eat the leaves, and the bears like the tomatoes when they start to grow- ( we tried that the year before..) Tell me - what works?

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Tomatoes work good in containers. That way you have good soil free of pests.

Tip: Plant seeds in containers and keep moist. Planting in the ground doesn't give the moisture most seeds need.

Here is my garden site:
http://www.flowerfancier.com/

You have beautiful flowers!

[KitCat]

Borzoimom, maybe they need more sunlight? That's all I could think of. Good luck!

[borzoimom]

Borzoimom, maybe they need more sunlight? That's all I could think of. Good luck!

So they need alot of sunlight? Maybe I could put the containers on the deck during the day.. Question- we had holes on the side and the bottom.. WE used a mixture of good top soil and potting soil.. any other ideas on this- ?
I really appreciate your help. I love tomatoes!

[KitCat]

I think that would help. You live in a geat area with bears and dears, it looks lovely!

[Karen]

They need lots of sunlight, and make sure you are not over- or under-watering them, too! Tomatoes do not like to tread water.