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Back From Vacation: All Orders are Going Out Monday 5/16 and Tuesday 5/17. Thank You! On Vacation:  All Items Ordered 5/9 through 5/13  Won't be Shipped Until 5/16 I am going to be a way on a garden related business trip which is very exciting. However, I wont be able to  fill seed orders and neem oil orders until I return on 5/14.  That means most things will be mailed out Monday 5/16.  Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

(5 of 9) Growing Tomatoes & Peppers:  Pruning Peppers, No Flowering, Feeding & Progress Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop This is the 5th video in a 9 part series on growing tomatoes and peppers from start to harvesting. This video quickly explains why you would and how to prune peppers. It is a great way to get stronger more productive plants.. Feed your tomatoes ever 10-14 days with a water soluble fertilizer and don't let them flower while you wait for final transplanting. Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

(4 of 9) Growing Tomatoes & Peppers:  Cup Transplanting Tomatoes, Fertilizing, Stem Bumps, Tips Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop This is the 4th video in a 9 part series about growing tomatoes and peppers from seed starting to harvesting. I show you how to transplant the tomatoes into cups and talk about fertilizing. I also show you some over-grown tomatoes in starter cells that are doing well from processed fertilizers. The tomato stems have bumps, this occurs on many stems and it is nothing to worry about. Make sure you have annotations on. There are lots of notes. Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

(3 of 9) Growing Tomatoes & Peppers:  True Leaves & Fertilizing, Purple Stems, Cinnamon Anti-Fungal Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop This is the 3rd video in a 9 part series about growing tomatoes and peppers from seed starting to harvesting. This video shows you when to fertilizer your tomato starts (1st True Leaves) and discusses water soluble fertilizer and how much to use. I give you an update on the pepper transplants, talk about purple pepper stems, how to use neem oil for insects, cinnamon as an anti-fungal and the way I label my seedlings. Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

Quick Ideas for Frost Protection of Plants in a Vegetable Garden Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Well as the story goes... "What? Frost this time of year. Are you kidding me?" This is the time of the season where we have put out a lot of our plants, some warm weather plants, but mostly the cool weather crops. Luckily the cool weather crops can take a frost and the leaves can freeze. The problem is that we don't want their roots systems to freeze. And any frost damages the warm weather crops. If we get a light frost, the cool weather plants survive. The leaves might get beat up and new ones may need to grow but the plant survives. Cool weather crop leaves can freeze and survive. The warm weather plants leaves can't do this and are destroyed if they freeze. If the root system or area where the roots and stem meet, freeze out hard, the plant can die. So with a 25 degree night on the horizon... here are some tips that I will use to add some p...

Identifying Slug and Snail Damage:  Using Iron Phosphate to Effectively Kill and Manage Snails and Slugs Slugs and snails are common in most gardens. They love leafy greens. They come out with the warming spring rains. I found the best way to manage them is with Iron Phosphate baited pellets. It can be used in organic gardens. Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop I had such a problem that anything green would be destroyed.I had small snails that would chew 100's of holes in plants like Chinese Cabbage and Bok Choy. The larger slugs would make large holes in my Kohlrabi and Cabbages. The cabbage heads would form and I would find many many small snails in them. Iron Phosphate is so effective, I forget I have a problem. As long as I use it regularly, I notice little, if any damage. I use it about every 2 weeks and I don't over sprinkle/concentrate it around the garden. A nice light broadcasting of the pellets is all you need. Good Luck with Your Garden, Ga...

Compost Tea Does Not Create More Fertilizer (This is What it Does) Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop I will be making videos on some of the myths we hear and on the silly prices we are being charged for organic fertilizers. So you can each be informed and decide how you want to use something in your garden. Compost tea does not create fertilizer. Fertilizer comes from elements. You can't create an element like Nitrogen, Phosphorous or Potassium. That is you can't grow it in a tea. If you could we would grow gold. Same idea. Compost tea is really nothing more than seeping the elements from compost into a liquid. So if you put in a shovel full of compost, you won’t get any more N P or K than is already in the shovel full of compost. Therefore compost tea does have some very weak fertilizer it. For the sake of straight fertilizing you are better off just put the compost around the plant. Compost tea can grow soil bacteria at a high rate. By adding in su...