2010 bearfan garden week 5

[bearfan454]

The garden is in fairly good shape for 5 weeks old. I've been pinching off the yellow tomato flowers until the plants get about 3 feet tall. I have 9 pepper plants to go along with the tomatoes. All the tomatoes are Early Girls and the peppers are Goliath Jalapeno, New Mexico Big Jim, Hot Banana, Sweet Banana, and Sandia.

[Raven]

1. Where are the weeds????? Not one damn weed in your garden!

How do you do that????

[bearfan454]

3. Till till till and more till

I have to pick the weeds out by hand inside the cages. I start tilling in January.

[beac]

2. My tomatoes arrived in the mail last week (no local source for variety organics around here)

and, though it was pretty hot for a day or so, now it's chilly and rainy. I'm still 'acclimating" them (and my Anaheim, Poblano, Socrates and Quattro Giallo peppers) in the sunny kitchen window, as I'm fearful of another late frost like we got last year.

I didn't know about pinching off early flowers. When I Googled, this DU thread was at the top of the search: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=246x8128 . :)

Some of the tomatoes (all cherry varieties) have flowers and a couple of the peppers have started fruit too. I'm going to pinch the flowers, but do you have an opinion about whether I should do it NOW while they are still in their 4" pots or AFTER I transplant them to their large container homes? I don't want to stress them too much at once. Pinch, wait a few days, transplant? OR transplant, wait, pinch?

[Blue Gardener]

4. Beautiful!

Looks like you're going to have a good year.