Posted by Gloria | Posted in Answers | Posted on 20-07-2011
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Question by mydoggyrocks: I’ve just started a veg. garden. Any tips on growing BIG tomatoes,beans,turnips,other than fertilizer?????
I have a rather small garden but have numerous veggies in it. I’m looking for tips to increase number & size of product. Any pruning tips would be great too!!!
Best answer:
Answer by hopefulmom
Use compost and water frequently.
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build the ground up around the planting
Just remember to keep the weeds out they will take all the good stuff out of the ground , water often and keep soil soft so that oxygen and water can get to roots . Hope you planted in a very sunny place.Best of luck gardening can be lots of fun .
First-Big tomatoes:
The variety you plant determines the ultimate size of your tomatoes. To increase the size of a particular tomato plant, make sure the plant has a LOT of available organic material, rather than relying on fertilizers.
Next, limit the number of tomato fruit on each vine.
For beans, you are out of luck. Bean varieties are pretty much standard, and trying to increase the size is playing a game with maturation, older bean pods have tougher beans. You can’t win.
Turnips…Make sure the ph of the soil is right, and prepare the soil to 12 to 18 inches. Turnips hate hard-pan, or rocky and boney soil. Make sure the fertilizer supports root growth, rather than leaf growth.
Good luck.
Call up the nearest nuclear power plant and have nuclear waste delivered to you house. Spread this stuff liberally around your garden and you’ll get tomatoes a foot across that glow in the dark. It’s a great conversation topic for a candlelight dinner… oh wait, you don’t need the candles, just bring out the salad bowl…
Seriously though, I used dehydrated cow manure dug into the soil before I planted the tomato plants, and then mixed with water fresh chicken dumps from Dolly and Blackie, my two pet cluckers, and used about 300 gallons of water a week to water 24 plants. I ended up with vines eight feet tall with over 100 tomatoes on the vines at any one time.
The chicken dumps did the trick. Last year was the first year I used them and made my plants go from six feet to eight feet tall. Yummy stuff. Better than kryptonite or radium any day.