{"id":9891,"date":"2023-05-03T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2023-05-03T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:28:47","slug":"i-have-most-of-the-tomatoes-transplanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/05\/03\/i-have-most-of-the-tomatoes-transplanted\/","title":{"rendered":"I have most of the tomatoes transplanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all of the main crop tomatoes transplanted, I quickly transplanted a few new ones a customer sent me. They had gotten very <\/em>leggy, due to lack of sun. But, I’ve found that by transplanting them deeply into large Styrofoam cups with a hole in the bottom, I can bury most of that long stem, just leaving the leafy top sticking out of the soil. You know those little hairs on tomato stems? Well, when buried, they become sturdy roots, all along that stem. So, you end up with nice, sturdy plants, not floppy, sad ones. That works great with larger transplants too. I just plant the long stem lying in a shallow trench, with just the leaf part sticking out of the soil, bending the stem gently as I fill in the dirt. No more flop and the plants really take off!<\/p>\n

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These last tomato seedlings got way too leggy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I plant those leggy seedlings very deep in large cups.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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With just the little leafy top sticking out, they’ll take right off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will has finished putting the boards on the floor of the old manure spreader and our friend, Mike, was over today with Dara, and he helped Will hook up the chains that hold the drag bars, which pull the manure back to the beaters. Now, if Will can just find the end of the power take-off shaft he “put somewhere safe”, last winter\u2026<\/p>\n

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It’s so nice to see water in the beaver pond and grass in the yard!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s so nice to look out on the beaver pond and see water instead of ice, grass in the back yard, instead of snowbanks. Wow, it makes you want to work, work, work! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all of the main crop tomatoes transplanted, I quickly transplanted a few new ones a customer sent me. They had gotten very leggy, due to lack of sun. But, I’ve found that by transplanting them deeply into large Styrofoam cups with a hole in the bottom, I can bury most of that long stem, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}