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Post: # 47330Unread post Seven Bends
Sun May 23, 2021 8:59 pm

Hi, all. I'm Seven Bends, from the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC (hardiness zone 7a). I learned vegetable gardening by working in my parents' community garden plot as a kid in the 1970s; now I have my own plot in that same community garden, all these years later. My most unusual and challenging gardening experiences were as a volunteer agriculture extension agent in the Peace Corps teaching vegetable gardening in the Sahel. Nowadays it's the normal challenges of weeds, heat, blight, and how to fit 30 varieties of tomatoes into 14 spaces. I'm glad to be here and looking forward to participating in the conversations.

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Sun May 23, 2021 9:39 pm

Welcome! Glad you could join us
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Sun May 23, 2021 10:42 pm

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under [mention]Seven Bends[/mention]

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Sun May 23, 2021 11:14 pm

Welcome from a fellow community gardener.
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Sun May 23, 2021 11:31 pm

Welcome to the Junction

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Mon May 24, 2021 12:36 am

Welcome! Look forward to you sharing your experiences :)

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Mon May 24, 2021 5:21 am

Glad to have you on Board!
Gardening near Philadelphia (USA)

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Post: # 47344Unread post Gardadore
Mon May 24, 2021 5:25 am

Welcome from NE PA! Sounds like you have had some interesting gardening experiences worldwide! Looking forward to your input here on Tomato Junction!

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Mon May 24, 2021 8:24 am

Welcome! I too look forward to hearing of your experiences on all sides of the pond. :)
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Mon May 24, 2021 11:19 am

Hi neighbor! Welcome!

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Mon May 24, 2021 11:28 am

Welcome to the forum!
Woodbury, NJ zone 7a/7b

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Mon May 24, 2021 12:11 pm

Big welcome!
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Post: # 47393Unread post Seven Bends
Mon May 24, 2021 7:39 pm

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone!

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Mon May 24, 2021 8:25 pm

Welcome to TomatoJunction, [mention]Seven Bends[/mention]! :)
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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Mon May 24, 2021 8:35 pm

Seven Bends wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 8:59 pm . . . Nowadays it's the normal challenges of . . . how to fit 30 varieties of tomatoes into 14 spaces. . . .
I'm starting to try to address that challenge! I have a habit of growing so many tomatoes that it's a challenge to find places for them all. So, I planted twelve Stick tomatoes (with pompom leaf foliage) to intersperse with my other tomatoes, and hope some cross-pollination happens. Same for Napoli. I got seven Stick plants out of that (some died and maybe some didn't sprout); I might have some more growing, though.

Stick's pompom leaf foliage should be great in a cramped situation. Napoli just has a small plant, but produces well anyway.

Anyway, my hope is to eventually have say hundreds of varieties of plants with pompom foliage, and then it should be easy to find and harvest all the fruit (I don't cage most of my plants; so, I have to do some maneuvering and searching). With pompom foliage, the leaves shouldn't shade or cover other plants. The leaves stay pretty tightly by the stem.

I don't have any Stick crosses, yet, though (unless any of the ones I planted are incidental crosses)--but [mention]Nico[/mention] seems to have at least one.

Regular Stick isn't the easiest to start by my current method (the easiest this year would be Garden Leader Monster). A cross between those two might be nice.
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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Tue May 25, 2021 12:17 am

[mention]Seven Bends[/mention] welcome from the uk
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Post: # 47556Unread post rdback
Thu May 27, 2021 9:25 am

[mention]Seven Bends[/mention] Welcome to TJ from a fellow Virginian. I garden on Bend #3. :)

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Post: # 47585Unread post Seven Bends
Thu May 27, 2021 1:38 pm

rdback wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 9:25 am @Seven Bends Welcome to TJ from a fellow Virginian. I garden on Bend #3. :)
Thanks, and I'm so glad you recognize the reference! I don't actually live near the Seven Bends, just an occasional visitor to that beautiful part of the state.

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Post: # 47655Unread post zendog
Fri May 28, 2021 3:28 pm

Welcome to the Junction. I'm in Arlington, VA and also have a community garden plot. There are a few of us from the area on here so maybe someday we can get together for seed or seedling swap, etc.

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Post: # 47663Unread post Seven Bends
Fri May 28, 2021 7:44 pm

[mention]zendog[/mention] Good idea. I lived in Arlington until five years ago; Fairfax County now. I tried to get a garden plot in Arlington but moved away before my name ever came up on the list.

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