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Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:16 pm

On to the next adventure.
Making the helix wire Vine support things with the engine lathe and installing them.
You just train the tomato vine to run inside the things.
Obviously make sure your lathe is on low speed. :lol:
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Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:22 pm

worth1 wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:16 pm On to the next adventure.
Making the helix wire Vine support things with the engine lathe and installing them.
You just train the tomato vine to run inside the things.
Obviously make sure your lathe is on low speed. :lol:
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Smart, wish we had the ability to do that, lol. I literally just bought 6 of these this morning, and I am getting two more when we go back to get the rest of the river rock we need. These are very heavy duty though and I am positive I will have them 5 years from now. I also put two of them in the yardlong beans planter set between the 5 little starts in there to see what they would do. Maybe one goes up and the other connects to it before they find the big trellis behind them? Lol, I don't know but I am in a huge experiment this year

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Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:29 pm

Rockporter wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:22 pm
worth1 wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:16 pm On to the next adventure.
Making the helix wire Vine support things with the engine lathe and installing them.
You just train the tomato vine to run inside the things.
Obviously make sure your lathe is on low speed. :lol:
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Smart, wish we had the ability to do that, lol. I literally just bought 6 of these this morning, and I am getting two more when we go back to get the rest of the river rock we need. These are very heavy duty though and I am positive I will have them 5 years from now.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Gardener-s-Blu ... 005344769
Mine came from scrap ceiling grid wire from work that was cut off.
They are supported from an overhead wire running along the driveway.
No telling how many of these I'll make.
The mandrill was just some one inch pipe I drilled a hole through with my drill press.
Also scrap from work.
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Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:59 pm

@worth1 here is your new side business. You could sell an awful lot if you made them 6-8 feet tall.
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Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:13 pm

MissS wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:59 pm @worth1 here is your new side business. You could sell an awful lot if you made them 6-8 feet tall.
But it's so easy and simple it would almost be a sin to charge money.
It's been my downfall for years.
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Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:56 am

Decided to clean up the mandrill.
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Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:14 pm

My swiss chard transplants don't seem to be any worse for wear.
Lord knows I wasn't to tender with them.
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Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:25 pm

You've reminded me to work on my prototype tomato cage, that I've put off for awhile. I think I'll start with about a 1/8th scale model.

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Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:40 am

My tomato plants have babies.
Set fruit in all this fruity weather from cold to hot back to cold and wet.
Pulled almost all the leaves off because of some sort of wet weather blight and it hasn't came back.
They seem no worse for wear.
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Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:08 pm

worth1 wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:40 am My tomato plants have babies.
Set fruit in all this fruity weather from cold to hot back to cold and wet.
Pulled almost all the leaves off because of some sort of wet weather blight and it hasn't came back.
They seem no worse for wear.
Juliet is one of the rare varieties that is resistant to Early Blight, and Septoria Leaf Spot.
My Blush and SS100 tomatoes had some blight as well but I sprayed the last 3 evenings with a diluted bleach spray and that seems to have worked.

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Sun Apr 02, 2023 2:04 pm

Wildcat82 wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:08 pm
worth1 wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:40 am My tomato plants have babies.
Set fruit in all this fruity weather from cold to hot back to cold and wet.
Pulled almost all the leaves off because of some sort of wet weather blight and it hasn't came back.
They seem no worse for wear.
Juliet is one of the rare varieties that is resistant to Early Blight, and Septoria Leaf Spot.
My Blush and SS100 tomatoes had some blight as well but I sprayed the last 3 evenings with a diluted bleach spray and that seems to have worked.
No signs of the blights return whatever it was.

My swiss chard is growing well and I plucked my first leaf and it was good.
Soon I'll thin it out and eat the wee ones or move them.

Probably going to replant the dill because only one survived the weather.
Possibly signs of some sort of pepper sprouting not for sure yet.
One tomato plant is in the coil.
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Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:56 am

I haven't even bothered looking at the plants in this weather.
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Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:58 pm

Well I just looked and they're doing fine.
Put more of them in the wire spirals.
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Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:39 pm

Here's the raggedy looking things.
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Wed Apr 19, 2023 6:45 am

Tomatoes slowly making their way up the spirals and the chard is growing well.
Need to re plant dill still yet.
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Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:21 am

Funny you should mention dill - I noticed yesterday that the dill I planted hadn't shown anywhere that I direct seeded it, yet in the raised bed, where I planted my brassicas, there were a bunch of volunteers. Of course, I just leave those, unless right on top of a plant I want - then, I'll move it.
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Sun Apr 23, 2023 3:55 pm

Planted more dill seeds and cussed out my lawnmower and line trimmer.

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Fri Apr 28, 2023 8:43 am

The Juliet tomato plants are branching nightmares.
And the season isn't even in full swing yet.
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Fri Apr 28, 2023 8:48 am

I picked up a couple of juliet plants. Maybe I can keep them going the entire summer when the others start to crater.
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Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:04 am

No dill sprouts yet.
Blaming it on weather.
My poor plants were stretched out in the cold wind yesterday.
Flapping like flags.
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