I'll have to try the egg shell thing. I have lots of container tomatoes right now. I had one tomato plant get knocked over in a storm and it snapped in half. I'm trying to nurse it back to health - it has tomatoes on it but the plant itself looks incredibly sickly. I'm not sure it'll survive long enough for the tomatoes to grow and ripen. Then another one was supposed to be a small container 'bush' type that needed no staking - well the darn thing grew so fast and tall it flopped over and is now hanging over the side of the grow-bag, growing upside down. Sheesh. It also HAD tomatoes on it until my 6 year old picked them thinking they were cherry tomatoes like one of the plants I have. At least there are a lot more flowers appearing this week.
Then there are my potatoes. I decided to try 3 of those patio potato planters (everything is on my deck currently as my yard was being landscaped by my builder...) You roll them up and add more soil as the plant grows. Well, I'm all rolled up and the potato plants are now double the height of the planter. It looks like I have trees on my deck, LOL. At least I finally noticed some flower buds today - I was starting to wonder if it was all plant and no potato.
Funny thing - I harvested a giant cucumber the other day. I bought a couple of small 'pickling' cucumber plants, and they started flowering like crazy. One plant seemed to be doing better than the other one. Well, the one that wasn't doing so well, I was examining the other day for new cucumbers - kinda irate it wasn't producing like the other one -, and found the biggest pickling cucumber I've ever seen. It was hiding, half in the dirt, right along the stem, under some dense leaves. LOLOL, the thing was 2.5 inches in diameter and about 8 inches long. I have no idea where it came from, as I've been checking the plants regularly. Just missed it I guess. It wasn't bitter at all despite being overgrown. My kids gobbled up the slices in about 5 minutes.
Anyway. Got carried away there - garden talk is fun! I can't wait to put my raised beds in now that my yard is all landscaped!
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