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Daniel Ricks
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Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:04 pm

Hello all, I’m glad to be here. I’ve been gardening for only about three years now... my wife had been gardening for about three years before that, but it hadn’t quite caught my attention yet. Now it is a huge interest and pursuit of mine and I really enjoy the benefits it is bringing to our young family in terms of homegrown food, our kids being more connected to natural cycles of life from a young age, and all of us getting more outside time. 8-)

Tomatoes have been especially fun to grow, and in the effort to keep learning, I’ve found myself here at this forum. It’ll be fun to get to know some of you more as we interact on here. Thank you to all who sacrifice their time to keep a forum like this rolling.. I’ll probably never know even the half of what you do for us!

In case it doesn’t show on the sidebar or whatnot, we are based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA right now, but will be moving in a few months to western North Carolina.

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:28 pm

Welcome to the Junction.

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:44 pm

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Daniel. Good luck with the move when the time comes

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:21 pm

Welcome to the forum! And good luck with the move - hope everything goes smoothly for all of you.
Woodbury, NJ zone 7a/7b

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:48 pm

WELCOME! Always happy to see a new member. :)

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:28 pm

Northern California, especially the western part, is gorgeous! I'm envying you.
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Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:41 pm

Welcome from Denver!

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:27 pm

Welcome to the Junction Daniel. I'm glad that you found us here and I am sure that you will be learning a lot. I hope that your move goes smoothly and that your new home has a garden so that come spring, you are ready to grow. I love North Carolina. It's where I want to go for my forever home.
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Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:46 pm

Thank you, everyone! I feel very welcome.:)

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:07 pm

Welcome to TomatoJunction! I hope you like it. I hope you like North Carolina, too. I've never been there, personally.

I'm curious to know your thoughts on how gardening differs after the move between the two locations, and whether/how your favorite tomatoes change. There are plenty of people from the Southeast who probably have a lot to say.
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Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:06 am

A big welcome from the uk
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Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:09 am

eyegrotom wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:28 pm Welcome to the Junction.
Sue_CT wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:48 pm WELCOME! Always happy to see a new member. :)
HL2601 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:41 pm Welcome from Denver!
Amateurinawe wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:06 am A big welcome from the uk
Thanks everyone :) Lot's of diverse places represented here it looks like.
Ginger2778 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:28 pm Northern California, especially the western part, is gorgeous! I'm envying you.
Hi Ginger, it's North Carolina we're going to, but I've visited northern California too, and it was awesome as well. I'm originally from the central valley of CA, which I would say is definitely not as nice as the north (for my preferences, that is).
Whwoz wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:44 pm Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Daniel. Good luck with the move when the time comes
pepperhead212 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:21 pm Welcome to the forum! And good luck with the move - hope everything goes smoothly for all of you.
MissS wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:27 pm Welcome to the Junction Daniel. I'm glad that you found us here and I am sure that you will be learning a lot. I hope that your move goes smoothly and that your new home has a garden so that come spring, you are ready to grow. I love North Carolina. It's where I want to go for my forever home.
Thank you, here's to hoping for a smooth move too. We've taken a long time to whittle down where to move to and we're very much looking forward to NC. It seems like a dream. Also hoping there's some gardening space ready for us, and extra space to expand it over time as well!
Shule wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:07 pm Welcome to TomatoJunction! I hope you like it. I hope you like North Carolina, too. I've never been there, personally.

I'm curious to know your thoughts on how gardening differs after the move between the two locations, and whether/how your favorite tomatoes change. There are plenty of people from the Southeast who probably have a lot to say.
I'm certainly looking forward to getting more natural rainfall (here in UT we are a high desert), but I also hope that where we're going specifically doesn't cause the extreme disease pressures that I've heard about from people in the south, like too much rainfall, humidity, etc. The adventure of the unknown ;) So that we get it down on "paper" for reference later, my favorite tomatoes here in UT so far are probably Mortgage Lifter, Sungold F1, and Sweetie... but there are so many more varieties to try so I'm expecting many changes in the coming years.

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Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:45 am

Welcome from the sunny South and soon TO the sunny South! Western NC is gorgeous. Boy, are you in for some gardening changes! :D

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Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:15 am

Welcome Daniel from Southeastern Colorado! As [mention]GoDawgs[/mention] mentioned, you are definitely in for some changes and challenges. But there are plenty of members from that area who will gladly give you all the help you need. Just ask...good luck with your move!
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Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:11 pm

Hi Daniel,

Welcome from sunny (and occasionally smokey) SoCal! Looks like we've been gardening about the same number of years. I grow mostly in containers, due to limited space in our patio. I don't know much about Salt Lake City or North Carolina, but imagine the first is closer what we have here, which is effectively one short season + another shorter one. Wondering if NC would allow you to grow a full long season, which would be great for late varieties. Curious, do you plan to grow in the ground primarily, in containers, or both?

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Bobby
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Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:57 am

[mention]bobrarian[/mention] Hi Bobby, nice to meet you and thanks for the welcome. By the way, I'm originally from the southern part of central California, Bakersfield. So shout out to my home state. I'm guessing when you say one short season followed by another short season, it's the summer scorch that breaks it in half over there? Here in Salt Lake we've got a non-frost (and yet also not unbearable heat) window of about May to October, so fortunately I've been able to grow longer season varieties already. The area we're headed to in North Carolina will actually be just about the same as where we are now, but with maybe a week added at the beginning and end, and slightly more moderate range in temperature.

As far as containers vs. ground, I'm hoping to have the majority be in the ground or maybe some combination of raised bed if the soil stays too wet, but I'm betting we'll have containers spread around too. This was the first year we were able to have moderate success with growing in containers, so hopefully that's a trend. :)

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Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:23 pm

Hello and welcome. I'm from Canada.
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Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:10 pm

Hi, from PA! Good to have you! I'm a bit new myself to the Junction. Its been a wonderful experience chatting with other people who love gardening as much, if not more than myself. I know you'll enjoy it here.
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Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:21 am

[mention]tomike[/mention] [mention]Rockoe10[/mention] Hello and thank you!

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