Worthless Garden.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
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.
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.

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Worth
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Re: Worthless Garden.
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 yearworth1 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.![]()
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Re: Worthless Garden.
Mine came from scrap ceiling grid wire from work that was cut off.Rockporter wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:22 pmSmart, 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.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.![]()
IMG_20230311_150408325.jpgIMG_20230311_150928340_HDR.jpgIMG_20230311_150942507_HDR.jpgIMG_20230311_151109781_HDR.jpg
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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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Re: Worthless Garden.
@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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Re: Worthless Garden.
But it's so easy and simple it would almost be a sin to charge money.
It's been my downfall for years.
Worth
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Re: Worthless Garden.
Decided to clean up the mandrill.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
My swiss chard transplants don't seem to be any worse for wear.
Lord knows I wasn't to tender with them.
Lord knows I wasn't to tender with them.
Worth
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Re: Worthless Garden.
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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Re: Worthless Garden.
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.
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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Re: Worthless Garden.
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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Re: Worthless Garden.
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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Re: Worthless Garden.
I haven't even bothered looking at the plants in this weather.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
Well I just looked and they're doing fine.
Put more of them in the wire spirals.
Put more of them in the wire spirals.
Worth
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Re: Worthless Garden.
Here's the raggedy looking things.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
Tomatoes slowly making their way up the spirals and the chard is growing well.
Need to re plant dill still yet.
Need to re plant dill still yet.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
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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Re: Worthless Garden.
Planted more dill seeds and cussed out my lawnmower and line trimmer.
Some hasty pictures.
Some hasty pictures.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
The Juliet tomato plants are branching nightmares.
And the season isn't even in full swing yet.
And the season isn't even in full swing yet.
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Re: Worthless Garden.
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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No dill sprouts yet.
Blaming it on weather.
My poor plants were stretched out in the cold wind yesterday.
Flapping like flags.
Blaming it on weather.
My poor plants were stretched out in the cold wind yesterday.
Flapping like flags.
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