I definitely have little experience gardening myself but I have had some quite successful gardens over the years. My father was a master organic gardener in the '70s before organic was a thing. He grew the best beefsteak tomatoes I've ever had. We would go around in the fall and pick up peoples raked leaves and then go to the horse farm for manure and make compost. Ahh to go back there again.
Any, back on point, unfortunately for me, I was a stupid teenager and did not take the opportunity to soak up all that knowledge he had and then he had a car accident and it became too late. I will forever regret that. Anyway, I don't have much space to garden. My cucumbers seem to always do great and I end up pickling every year I grow them.
My tomatoes on the other hand, not so much. I live in Charlotte, NC FYI. The plants get crazy tall (like 6 feet tall) but the stems are spindly and weak. They never produce much of anything. I think it may be daylight related. There is only one spot in my yard that has 8-10 ours of full sunlight a day. And that spot also has a dusk to dawn light that runs all night, every night. I keep reading where tomatoes need at LEAST 6 hours of total darkness a night. I see where they are known to not do well when people try to use grow lights indoors as a result. Do you think the Sodium night light (I THINK that's what grow lights are as well) is the issue? The spots that have total darkness only have 6 hours of full sunlight a day and I don't know which is worse. I quit trying for a few years but I always kept his gardening books and it seems that maybe I inherited the gardening bug because I keep going back.
This is my first post also
I dedicate it to my late Father. Man, could he garden anything.
