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Old Sep 19, 2009 | 03:40 PM
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We put in three tomato plants, planted in late June. They're doing well, despite the late start. I didn't get any cayenne peppers planted this year though.
 
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Old Sep 19, 2009 | 04:05 PM
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my wife planted bell peppers and there the size of a raddish, my neighbors watermelons are the size of your fist. not good.
 
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Old Sep 19, 2009 | 04:51 PM
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Tomatoes and peppers like hot, direct sunlight, and they like to dry out between waterings. It was just too wet for too long, not enough direct sunlight. My tomato plants started to rot out at the roots.

Did experience a new kind of tomato plant this year though. I bought what I thought were a few big boy tomato plants from an Earl May down the street. I ended up with a really strange tomato plant that puts out purpleish-green tomatoes. Had to research it on the net to find out they are called Black Tomatoes. Different tasting too.
 
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Old Sep 19, 2009 | 05:15 PM
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Wonder if that isn't what happened to my mom's plants, they were doing pretty good, then just suddenly died, but the ground around there does tend to stay wet. The peppers had been doing pretty good as well, but didn't make a lot of them. My tomatoes weren't planted until at least June, and are faster maturing because they were so late, only in the last couple weeks started to get any from it, and they are small, but are likely the nature of Early Girls...
 
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Old Sep 19, 2009 | 05:49 PM
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i think we had beef steak tomatoes but they died off way early.our 8 sweet corn plants failed. we had 2 potatoe plants and the fruit they beared was sriveled up.
 
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Old Sep 25, 2009 | 06:23 AM
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Old Sep 25, 2009 | 06:27 AM
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Off to my Physics test for the day... heck of a way to start the day....At least I have the rest of the day off for a change, now just gotta get it to quit raining long enough near a weekend to get my water line run so i can get hooked up to rural water and stop having to haul it from my parents...
 
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Old Sep 25, 2009 | 12:44 PM
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good luck on your test roger.
 
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 01:02 AM
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Morning Iowa anf Friend's!!
 
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 06:18 AM
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And here I am again, but today I go into work later, so I need to do a bit on my trailer so i can pick up a Lincoln that needs to be removed from a property in town. Have to see what it is going to take to get it out of where it is, then of course, what I can scavenge off of it....
 
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 11:18 AM
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mornin' all,
hey roger what year lincoln. i need some parts. for a car i'm working on.
 
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It would seem the deal fell through, as my co worker never came in to let me know where it was and such. I'm not going to drive the truck and trailer in to see if I find anything out. 70 miles for nothing at 10 MPG vs 35 MPG is not good financial sense to me.
 
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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 08:05 AM
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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 10:42 AM
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that sucks roger i wouldn't either.
 
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