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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    Sounds like mine are determinant, they grew into these big bushes with very few along the way, now they fruiting all over.
    Sounds that way. To me determinants are only good if you want to have a ton of tomatoes to process all at once for sauces, canning, etc. I prefer to have some regularly all season without having to spend days stewing, canning, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    Two giant tomato plants that are constantly needing new twine ties on account of dropping under their own weight they are as tall as me (6'1) and span my outstretched arms.

    What do you fertilize those with?

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    What do you fertilize those with?
    Not sure exactly, it was that city pickers growbox I had a thread on, somekind of time release and added some dolomite lime.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    LOL. I have been doing make-shift emergency critter sheltering today. One of my ideas was buckets in the compost pile. We will see. Certainly can't hurt.



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    Excellent idea. What types of critters are you sheltering?

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Excellent idea. What types of critters are you sheltering?
    Cats are my reason for doing it but any critter that wants to stay there is welcome to do so. We have possums and raccoons running about as well but I think the raccoons may have a burrow. Not sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    LOL. I have been doing make-shift emergency critter sheltering today. One of my ideas was buckets in the compost pile. We will see. Certainly can't hurt.

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    If they were filled with leaves they might accommodate small rodents, but unless it's not all that cold where you live those buckets can't have enough R-value for a feral cat without piling a huge amount of leaves and brush or straw on top and doing something to make the opening smaller. You could try cardboard boxes filled with straw (not too tightly packed) each box inside of a garbage bag, with an opening just slightly bigger than a cat's head. The cats could then hollow out an area in the straw just big enough for their bodies. Then just pile the compost on top and around the boxes. A good snowfall would make them even warmer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    If they were filled with leaves they might accommodate small rodents, but unless it's not all that cold where you live those buckets can't have enough R-value for a feral cat without piling a huge amount of leaves and brush or straw on top and doing something to make the opening smaller. You could try cardboard boxes filled with straw (not too tightly packed) each box inside of a garbage bag, with an opening just slightly bigger than a cat's head. The cats could then hollow out an area in the straw just big enough for their bodies. Then just pile the compost on top and around the boxes. A good snowfall would make them even warmer.
    My neighbor was a wooden baby crib on the porch with blankets in it, the cat lays in it snug as a bug in a rug, wish I had pics. Good point on the extreme cold shelters. We have not even froze even for 30 minutes before dawn, here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    If they were filled with leaves they might accommodate small rodents, but unless it's not all that cold where you live those buckets can't have enough R-value for a feral cat without piling a huge amount of leaves and brush or straw on top and doing something to make the opening smaller. You could try cardboard boxes filled with straw (not too tightly packed) each box inside of a garbage bag, with an opening just slightly bigger than a cat's head. The cats could then hollow out an area in the straw just big enough for their bodies. Then just pile the compost on top and around the boxes. A good snowfall would make them even warmer.
    I filled them with cedar shavings, but if they live they live and if they die they die. At least I tried something to help.

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    Not much going on foodwise in the garden this week. Went from subfreezing weather to a high of 69 and we are heading back into freezing weather again. Here is a sad pot of onions:

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    Have a whole bed of them out in the field that looks no better, but this is a pot for little hands to garden in so they leave my big hands alone.
    Shredded a bunch of paper/cardboard and put out to compost. Guess if civilization collapses I will be eating slime mold and cardboard:

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    At least the warm weather allowed the landscaping to bounce back a little. Planted several 1 gal. rhododendron that fall I got on half-price close-out. I thought they were goners this time last week but that almost 70° day thawed them back out and perked them back up:

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    Anything going on with anybody else's garden/landscaping? This is a good time to do all that brush clearing and new projects building.
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    All I have is limited space on my balcony- not sure if I will plant this year.
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