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I have yet to hear of anyone having a good tomato crop this year. It's disheartening when you put so much time and effort into your plants just to have a bad season that doesn't produce like you expect it to. Seems to happen every year. . . You will always have at least one fail of something due to mother nature.
I did really well with tomatoes this year, even with neglecting the plants. They were grown in the greenhouse so I think that made a big difference.
 
Glad you at least got a good harvest Brent. Yeah my cherry tomatoes seemed to produce like crazy but the others just didnt. As for a fall crop, I'm really thinking about taking the season off, but that may change. . . Seems like I get bitten by that bug every year.
 
Glad you at least got a good harvest Brent. Yeah my cherry tomatoes seemed to produce like crazy but the others just didnt. As for a fall crop, I'm really thinking about taking the season off, but that may change. . . Seems like I get bitten by that bug every year.
Me, too!


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A green house can only be used an average of 3 weeks in the Spring and maybe the Fall. Way too hot and humid in my part of the world.
I’m not far from you and can’t say enough good about mine. I keep the sides open to the air on mine, and the opaque white top cover gives enough shade to help it stay cooler under it than the open garden. I only close the sides during winter. The garden is 10times bigger than the greenhouse but dosent produce nearly as much produce. Controlling the heat is a big factor if you close it in, but by opening it up some the heat is manageable and it’s still a mostly controlled growing environment. I used salvaged materials and only have a little bit of money in my 20x21’ structure. The only thing I really want to improve is to install a gutter system to catch the rain and disperse it inside. Currently I have to water it completely.
 
I’m not far from you and can’t say enough good about mine. I keep the sides open to the air on mine, and the opaque white top cover gives enough shade to help it stay cooler under it than the open garden. I only close the sides during winter. The garden is 10times bigger than the greenhouse but dosent produce nearly as much produce. Controlling the heat is a big factor if you close it in, but by opening it up some the heat is manageable and it’s still a mostly controlled growing environment. I used salvaged materials and only have a little bit of money in my 20x21’ structure. The only thing I really want to improve is to install a gutter system to catch the rain and disperse it inside. Currently I have to water it completely.
I really like that plan. My greenhouse has to be vented even in the spring, and later it cooks everything.


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I really like that plan. My greenhouse has to be vented even in the spring, and later it cooks everything.


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I learned quickly that even a couple hours on a warm spring day can cook everything in it. Since I wasn’t in it keeping an eye on temperature all day that opening the sides was the simplest way to manage it. There are automated vents and fans you can buy but I was doing this on a no frills budget when I built it. After having it for a few seasons now I can’t tell you enough about how much better my yields are.
 
Where I am the sun is so intense that the little shade the roof gives gives the plants the needed protection to produce better.
I really need to build something like yours when/if I get my land. I am not that far from you and I can see where the shade would really help


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Me too. I also can okra, and tomatoes together.
Thats one of my favorites, stewed okra and tomatoes. Or throw in some andouille sausage and its even better, hell just add some shrimp, crabmeat, seasoning mix and a roux and make it a gumbo! Have to have it with rice of course...
 
I always leave seed on vine to dry for next year's planting.

We've had so much rain, I went down and checked. The beans were so wet that many of them have already sprouted.

I'm going to put them in a pot and see if I can get them growing then move them inside when it cools. Probably won't work, but at least I tried
 
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The wife had a hen party with the neighbor lady's a couple days ago and canned a bunch of tomatoes. I made a couple gallons of hot salsa and several bottles of hot pepper sauce. We have bags of dried herbs, frozen corn, peas, green beans, blueberries, raspberries and zucchini. The dog picked and ate the only two apples that survived the early spring storm.
For the most part our garden did fantastic this year.
Next year we'll finish planting the orchard and expand the strawberry, blackberry, grapes and the herb beds. We're planning on cutting back on the tomato and pepper plants.
If I get the new well put in by the house this Fall I'll use the old well next summer to irritate a patch of corn, wheat, oats and pasture.
 
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I always leave seen on vine to dry for next year's planting.

We've had so much rain, I went down and checked. The bean were so wet that many of them have already sprouted.

I'm going to put them in a pot and see if I can get them growing then move them inside when it cools. Probably won't work, but at least I tried

I would think it would work. . . . At least the growing part. Hopefully you will have warm enough weather for them to start producing. If anyrhing, just put them out when it warms during the day. Temps here are still pretty warm. Highs last week was in the mid 90s and this week it has cooked down to upper 80s.
 

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