If i know anything about Goethe (and i do), And if Goethe knew… - 1370°C

Reminding me to be studying...

Thanks.

:)

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Did you start from seeds or from plants?

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Plants. I didn't think of it early enough to start from seed.

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tomato
s are hard to do here unless you have a cool established garden already. and a drip water system.

apparently they are also quite susceptible to cigarette smoke.

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Yar, hard to do *here* anyway. They're not tricky in humid places with actual soil ;)

Since there's someone in the hospital every day (the garden is there), they are being watered very regularly. I just fear the soil is too crappy.

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I am having issues with my tomatoes as well. As killbox mentions, they're tricky.

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What's happening (and why the Goethe reference) is that they've hardly grown at all since i planted them weeks ago, but some of them are already flowering. At the same time, they're looking way dry and the leaves are shrivelling. Goethe said that plants make a last-ditch effort at species survival when they "know" they're going to die and try to flower, fruit. and produce seed in a hurry. Seems to me that's what's going on.

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If Goethe would see your tomatoes he would draw 6 red and 6 green squares...
and maybe 8 blue ones for more water ;P

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