1) In the States, how often do we give our dogs de-worming medication?
2) My Pops and I are discussing this via email, but I'm still curious: As my tomato plants grow they are starting to bloom. Because they are not fully grown, should I pick off these blossoms, thus encouraging plant growth or simply let the plants begin production?
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our new pup takes a heart worm/flea prevention combo once a month
ReplyDeletedepending on how long your growing season is and how many warm/sunny growing days you plan to have. if you're at the beginning of the growing season and plan to have months of warmth and sunshine, then i would pick off the first set of blooms. if the season is long and the plants don't seem like they're going to get very big, then i'd leave them on. for example - heirloom varieties seem to take forever to set fruit and ripen, so i'd leave those on. sungolds are quick and the plant if vivacious, so you could take those off. just my 2 cents.
ReplyDeleteI was doing fine with commenting until now. It seems to have become harder. Why do I have to be signed in?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I wrote a lovely comment but lost it in this whole process so I'm trying again. Here in the high country of short tomato seasons, we do not pick off the blossoms but you should have a long season so could pick off the first group of blossoms. If your plants are small, you may want to do this but I don't think you have to. The important thing to remember about tomatoes is that if you give them too much nitrogen, you'll have lots of green and almost no tomatoes so don't fertilize with nitrogen!
Frida gets heart worm/flea prevention meds once a month as well.
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