Growing Tomatoes

[Ninurta]

For this area peanuts are one of the big cash crops around here. I thought about some of those, just for my late night snacks. The soil around here is perfect for that, apparently. I also have a border of woods around my property and it's the same here. Grass barely grows close to that border. I tried planting a Sega palm close to a patch of pine trees quite some years back. Those pine trees ate up every nutrient in that area and choked that Sega palm to death. It had been completely sucked dry from those two or three trees near by. But, my rose bush tree is thriving in that same spot.

I tried peanuts once, years ago, but the soil in that area was again too much clay, not sandy enough. Peanuts need loose sandy soil to send the ovum into the ground to develop the peanut. I don't know much about roses, but they must be fairly acidophilic. I have bunches of wild roses growing along the western and northern fenceline of my yard, right in the edge of the woods. They use the chain link fence as a trellis to climb. I don't know what kind they are, just tiny, white, 5 petaled roses. Not more than an inch or an inch and a half in diameter. 20 miles southwest of here, where I grew up, we had wild roses that I think are  called "Cherokee Roses". They're low to the ground, never get more than a foot tall, and usually around 6 or 8 inches, and have big pink 5 petal blossoms, probably around 4 inches across.

This afternoon the blooms on "Ludell" are fully opened now. I'm not sure what to expect, or necessarily what to do for the next stage of producing the tomato. I will heed the advice of a little fertilizer goes a long way.

Nothing left to do. Maybe change fertilizer to a higher potassium fertilizer, but nothing lse. Nature does the rest. The bloom will get fertilized and fall off, and then the ovum of the bloom will start swelling up, green, and eventually it will ripen to red, and you have a tomato.

I did have someone offer me a good (free) supply of chicken manure. Is there any benefit to chicken poo vs cow poo? Should I try the chicken manure? It seems I read somewhere (been doing a ton of reading on all the different plants I have going) that chicken manure was better for tomatoes.

Yup, chicken manure is good for tomatoes. I have a neighbor that grows cannabis, and he uses practically nothing but chicken manure to fertilize. As I mentioned before, anything good for cannabis is also good for tomatoes, and vice-versa. He composts the chicken manure down, then mixes it with water and uses the mixture to water his plants a couple times a week when it's dry, and once a week or so under normal circumstances. However, I don't know the mixture strength he uses.

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