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Slowing reviving my green thumb, so I thought I'd throw out a thread.

Has anybody tried grafting vegetables? Tomatoes in particular. I've been looking into this a bit more, and might try it next year.

Grafting tomatoes? Meaning grafting different cultivars onto one stem? I've been growing tomatoes for a long time and I've never heard of this.

Grafting just about any cultivar onto a disease resistant rootstock, like Maxifort.

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Good video.

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Has anyone else found it a bad year for toms? I'm usually swimming in them but this year they didn't do well at all.
Must be that artic spring we had.

Mixed results this year for me. Small yellows are looking good, but my olpaka's are in rough shape, lot of blossom end rot....

My garden is looking awful this year.
Tomatoes - way behind.
Raspberries - leaves yellowed and plants very look unhappy - think they have a virus, will likely have to rip out.
Elderberries - growing well but have to keep battling the deer and black aphids.
Hops (first year) - Hallertauer growing okay, cascades - some growth, Golding and Fuggles - never came up

Grapes doing quite well. Frontenac Gris seems to do well in my plot.

My tomato plants are all healthy looking, but very slow to ripen. I've only picked 2 so far and they were still a touch green (looking like they were going to split, so I grabbed them early).

What is on the plants is looking small.

I've had a half dozen full size ttomatos, and probably 40 cherry tomatoes. My Roma's are still totally green of course

All my stuff is green too. I got them in way late....and I think deer ate the tops off a bunch of them.

Poor year for me as well. I had wheel barrows full of tomatoes last year. This year the plants are much smaller with few tomatoes. I'm finding it a poor year all around except for things that are virtually impossible to screw up like beans and peas.

Add me to the list of having a piss poor gardening year as well. I had a shit ton of tomatoes last year......so far this year I've picked a whopping 2 tomatoes so far. My potatoes, peas and beans have been doing well, but my other veggies not so well. Definitely my worst growing season so far.

I had to replant cukes after wind and rain in june, the toms are very under-performing though. Peppers (hot ban and sweet) are doing well, lost two to the wind. Swiss chard, spinnach did good. I hope next spring is warmer than this was.
Made one batch of hot pickles (pickles with hot peps) so far.

My tomatoes are doing awful, haven't had a single tomato this year. My herbs are doing great, and so are my raspberries.

gm- wrote:My tomatoes are doing awful, haven't had a single tomato this year. My herbs are doing great, and so are my raspberries.

None of the herbs I started indoors early spring survived the transition outside. My raspberries ok, but not like last year, but I've never seen blackberry plants so loaded with fruit! Radishes were insane - some nearly the size of beats. Swiss chard, lettuce, peas and beans are fine. Carrots, cucumbers and turnips coming along, but most everything else is a little disappointing.

However, I'm selling fruits and veggies this year and I've already broken even without selling a single cucumber, tomato or potato (yet). Learning a ton about what sells and how much to plant and playing with succession planting.

I'm looking for two apple trees (I'm not too fussy about the variety) but they are out of stock at treetime. Any tips on other good places to buy apple trees?

I picked a Apple and Pear tree from Home Depot. Tree's looked really nice and healthy and appear to have taken. Will take a few years however before they will yield any fruit.

I picked up the multi fruit tree's, they are dwarf trees with a variety of apples branches grafted on. I picked up a tree that will allow me to harvest for a few months and not just 1 big load.

I think I may get a cherry tree next.

I'm tempted because I have two cherry trees that were diseased and died off last year that I want to replace. I think I'll hold off until next year though as I'm replacing my fence this summer and would hate to damage freshly planted trees.

Keith wrote:I picked a Apple and Pear tree from Home Depot. Tree's looked really nice and healthy and appear to have taken. Will take a few years however before they will yield any fruit.

I picked up the multi fruit tree's, they are dwarf trees with a variety of apples branches grafted on. I picked up a tree that will allow me to harvest for a few months and not just 1 big load.

I think I may get a cherry tree next.

How do you feel about teaching yourself some grafting? I have an august white, russet, a couple macs (or scotian - I'm not sure), honeycrisp (again, I think), ginger gold, red delicious, plus at least 6 more unidentified apple varieties.

... and more apple wood for smoking than I could possibly use in my lifetime.

Not sure I'd want to get into grafting myself. I think I'd like to leave that one for the professionals.

Orca bush beans.

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My damn tomoto seeds won't sprout. Haven't given up hop, but its been 8 days.

Tomatoes take about a week to germinate. What temperature are the seeds at? Are they moist?

They are moist, and at room temp, but the house is kept a little cool - about 15 through the day. I just used regular potting soil, and put the seeds just a few mm under cover.

Another 5 deg c might help. I use heated trays and they are great.

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