Someone do a rain dance, please - Page 12

 TS barry only brought us about 1 &1/2 inches of rain.  Didn't even begin to
touch the now almost ten inch rain deficient.  It's so dry here that it
didn't even take an hour for all the rain to dry up.  Oh well,  I guess we
are gonna have to keep praying, dancing, spitting, and snake killing around
here.  Either that or go ahead and agree with Frag that he must have "magic"
spit................

Parched & burnt in NC
Rae

 

She.  

And I think it was the location AND the magic spit.

:)

 

Sorry!  I thought i put she/he?. that's what i meant to put anyways - my
mind was moving faster than my fingers.  believe it or not - they actually
put out a twister warning for my county at the same time I had started
writing that post.  I was mainly thinking about getting it sent and getting
the comp off.  We just had 2 more inches of rain in 30 minutes.  I guess our
spit must just be working in spells.........i still agree with the theory of
your rain being because of the location.

 

That's why your spit didn't work.  You're a non-believer.  :P~

 Craig said:

This is an old tip that I've never had the occasion to test directly (but I
will comment more after):

Drive a small spade down in one or two spots  around one of your
plants and cut a few roots.  This might shock the plant into ripening
the tomatoes.

OK, this year one of the new varieties I was trying was not ripening any
tomatoes, not even a hint of color, even after all the others were doing
so.  It was so full of green tomatoes that the stake was leaning over
threatening to crash into the fence. (I have electric wires at the top so
this would have been a Bad Thing.)   I drove in a couple of small stakes
to tie off the larger one and stop the leaning.  And shortly after that, a
whole bunch of tomatoes on that plant started turning red.

 Now, I would think this was entirely coincidental, except for having
remembered that old advice.  So I may have unintentionally confirmed it
works.  Or, maybe not.  I doubt it would hurt to try.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)
  
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)