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Today I pulled out most of my determinite potted tomatoe plants, Early Girl and Roma, plus an indeterminate Cherry. The remaining 1 tomato plant is an indeterminite and although currently not producing tomatoes I am going to leave a little longer to see if it starts forming fruit again as temps cool down.

Next year I am going to have to create a new game plan for the tomatoes, and now peppers too. Rats and Squirrels ate about 65%-75% of my tomatoes. It was frustrating and discouraging.

I won't be planting Early Girl ever again. They tasted no better than a grocery store tomato. IMO a waste of time, energy and money.

I may consider planting a new tomato plant for fall harvest but I need to figure out a method to keep the rats out. I am pretty sure they are living under my AC unit platform. Anyone have any non-lethal methods of driving them out. I am not opppsed to deadly force but I am way to squeamish to deal with dead and even worse, nearly dead critters.

Today I pulled out most of my determinite potted tomatoe plants, Early Girl and Roma, plus an indeterminate Cherry. The remaining 1 tomato plant is an indeterminite and although currently not producing tomatoes I am going to leave a little longer to see if it starts forming fruit again as temps cool down.

Next year I am going to have to create a new game plan for the tomatoes, and now peppers too. Rats and Squirrels ate about 65%-75% of my tomatoes. It was frustrating and discouraging.

I won't be planting Early Girl ever again. They tasted no better than a grocery store tomato. IMO a waste of time, energy and money.

I have only sold a house once and it was many years ago. What I learned and recalled from the experience.

I received three estimates from realtors. They seemed low by $15K to $20K ($164K) compared to what I was seeing in comps and low inventory. I lived in the highest rated community in the state for schools, low crime, etc etc

I listed the home at the higher end at $179K. I thought it should be higher but by then was less confident.and negotiated a lower realtor fee if the realtor was the agent for both the seller and buyer.

My home received many full listing price offers the first day of showing which was an open house. IMO the listing price was to low. Did the realtors give low end estimates for faster sale, less work and faster receipt of their commission?

One offer was full cash from a nearby neighbor that was renting. They did not have a real estate agent so my agent was acting on behalf of both themselves and buyer.

I was never told by my agent that I could have countered to sell the house at a higher price than listed, by giving the prospective buyers an opportunity to rebid. Hmmm, did my RE agent not tell me this because the full cash bidder was their client, which was a 5% commission that did not need to be split with another agent.

From this when it was time for me to buy another home, I did not get a buyers agent. I used the sellers agent this allowed me to be in a favored position with the sellers agent because it allowed the agent to get the full commission versus having to split it with a buyers agent.

My home was already sold. I moved to the opposite coast and rented for a year. I had no house to sell so I needed no contingency in that regards and I could close faster (30 days).

I had been viewing her Instagram account for the snark but honestly it has become even more boring since the DV convict boyfriend was released. I used to view a couple of times a day. It is now every other day for the story clip. My time is valuable and viewing her account is worthless. I just come here daily to see if anything worth viewng. You all have helpfully directed me elsewhere to better more interesting content.

First thank you to everyone here who taught me about harvesting blushing tomatoes. I would have lost quite a few more tomatoes to the critters had I not picked at first blush.

My tomatoes finally started blushing in early July. Still waiting on Big Boy and Roma's that got a late start. You all said patience and you were right.

I also learned from you all about temperature needs of tomatoes. I live in South OC about 5 miles inland from the coast. Night time temps did not start warming up until late May and June and even then the temps were probably 58 to 65 with a marine layer that was not burning off until 10 am. It was not until July when there were more days without a morning and evening marine layer, allowing night time temps to be consistently above @ 64 degrees, plus the increase in day time temperatures.

I don't have alot of experience growing tomatoes here in So Cal but I think what I learned is that where I live tomatoes are not going to ripen until temps are much warmer in the day, and nights are 65 degrees and above, which means earliest is July.

I was thinking earlier in the season if I had put my tomato plants in the ground in late February early March I would have tomatoes earlier but my gut says NO; tomatoes might form but they would remain green ~ and I would simply be growing for the critters. However I likely will still experiment with planting one or two in early March next year.

I was disappointed in the flavor of my Early Girl variety of tomato, or I should say lack of flavor. I won't be planting them again. Plus they were not very "early".

It will be interesting to see what the flavor of my Roma tomatoes will be. In March I cut up an over ripe store bought tomato and planted them in a small outdoor pot. After a month I did not think they were going to germinate, but finally to my surprise in May they sprouted. I did not get them transplanted until either late May or early June so they are a few weeks before my other tomatoes.

I was happy with the Parks Whopper tomato variety. I did not get as many tomatoes as I would have liked but the ones that did make it to harvest turned a deep red with a hint of purple and had good flavor. I lost half of them to over-night critters.

I am still waiting upon my Big Boy tomatoes to blush. It has the least amount of production, plus lost several to the critters. Hopefully the remaining few tomatoes make it to harvest.

My most disappointing tomato plant has been my Sweet 100 Cherry tomato. Production has been VERY lack luster. The tomatoes are very small and the taste far from sweet.

So NEW QUESTION regarding INDETERMINATE tomatoes - Should I be seeing growth of new tomatoes toward the tops of the plants where they are most healthy?

I have seen no new tomatoes since probably mid to late June, including my Cherry tomato plant which surprises me the most. There was quite a bit of continued blossoming but no fruit formation. Now in the past 10 days I am seeing very few blossoms and those that I do see dry up.

Is it too hot for the blossoms and fruit formation?

OR

Is it that the soil in the pots have been drained of nutrients, specifically calcium? Although I did I fertilized again two weeks ago with a granulated formula of 12-10-5.

Thank you everyone for all your advice. It has been so very helpful.

It looks to me that her diet is heavy in Carbs and most certainly is not the recommended Mediterranean diet of whole foods.

Losing weight in a healthy manner does not include high carbs. A plate should be 1/4 protein, 1/4 carb type "whole" food, 1/2 whole fruits and vegetables and preferably mostly whole food snacks or at the least low/limited processing.

I suspect the high processed foods and carbs is why she is holding onto so much fat. IMO Chick-fil-A is processed fast food, even if making healthier choices. Plus her snacks!

Her diet is going to come back around to bite her in the butt. She has not changed her way of thinking about the actual foods and carbs she is putting in her body. At her higher weights I would be surprised if she was not already diabetic or at the very least pre-diabetic and soon to be diabetic.....meaning she needs to watch her carbs!

Pictures of Food, Failed Weigh-in, Grocery Hauls, Caitlin doing Nothing. Talking about being Locked-in. Going to Gym today after gaining 15 pounds in 10 days but no content showing it. Reposting other peoples content. Grifting.

Nothing original. It's all the same.

I don't know why but I suddenly had a feeling that her WL/Skin Removal Surgeon has backed out of doing her surgery, and she has received a refund or will be receiving it soon. OR Caitlin has completely cancelled the surgery.

Has anyone encountered overwhelming fatigue and energy loss while on injectable Wegovy from start to 4months later, with dosage increases every 4 weeks? I am currently on 1.7mg.

I am talking daily fatigue and a decrease in energy like you have never felt before, and it hasn't diminished the whole time I have been on Wegovy.

For every one tomato I harvested so far this year, three to four get gutted out by rats at night. It wasn't until about 10 days ago that I was able to harvest my first early girl tomato. Yesterday morning I found they took out three of my largest beefstakes. This morning they took one beefstake, one whopper junior and one early girl. I am to squeamish to put out traps, can't use poison because of dog. I have put so much time, effort and money into these plants. They are beautiful plants. Not a single insect or disease so far all season. The only tomato plants they have not touched yet are my Roma and sweet 100 cherry. I estimate I have lost close to 20 tomatoes to the rats so far, and I don't have many tomatoes on the plants compared to the number of flowers I have seen. I tried sprinkling cayenne pepper and cinnamon, obviously neither worked. I am thinking about buying those pouches to put on the tomatoes, or getting some tulle fabric and wrapping it around the tomato plants.

They have not touched my zucchini or Swiss Chard. It has been warming up and hitting the 80's this week.

Last week I even filled a bird bath for the dang rats and squirrels hoping that would keep them hydrated and away from the tomatoes.

My Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes are tiny, smaller than a dime and none even close to blushing. The plant has lots of flowers but not many have become tomatoes.

I have been taking branch trimmings from my tomato plants to try again. This time my plan is to attach windows screen to wooden stakes and then "fence/wrap/encase" the tomato plants.

Anyone have any other creative ways to get rid of the rats.

~Mad, Sad and Disqusted from Beautiful Sunny Southern California~

As far as I recall she has never been this quiet on social media. I wonder what is going wrong besides her hopefully having second thoughts about her violent boyfriend being released from jail and her and her son continuing to live with him. I think he is going to derail the surgery and she will no longer be living with him by then. Was this the first time he was in jail? And was he in a local jail or an actual prison? Did she go to visit him while he was incarcerated?

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Has anyone used the Quicken Living Trust Software to create a Living Trust? Being a CPA I feel as though I am fairly savvy with respect to understand legal terms, directions and IRS codes.

3:30 pm on 7/5 in insta story - She's "consuming" alright. High as a kite, back to rambling and posting every 5 minutes. She said she is watching alot of average size people's content now, her niche........she thinks she is now part of the average and slim community!

I just purchased a 6ft(l)×2ft(w)x1.5ft(h) corrugated steel raised bed.

I am reading conflicting information about what to fill it with.

I originally planned to put cardboard at the bottom. Then a mix of leaves and grass clipping. However I read that uncompleted uncomposted material can pull nitrogen out of the soil above, and that is not good.

Filling it 100% with soil is going to be expensive.

Question - At the end of the season can I use the Miracle Grow Organic Potting Soil that I have in my pots to partially fill the beds? And if I can - What other type of soil should I use to "convert" the Miracle Grow Potting soil to Raised Bed Soil.

I have a small compost pile that I started and planned to use next spring to top dress this new Raised Bed.

I am ok with waiting until next March 1st to plant vegetables and spending the next 8 months filling and preparing the raised bed.

Much advice needed. This is beginning to feel way more complicated compared to my current method of gardening using pots filled with the Miracle Grow potting soil; and I am rethinking this purchase.

I purchased it with the plan to use it for beets, lettuce, carrots, and maybe cucumbers if it gets enough sun. And to not have to continue buying expensive bags of soil every year.

Searching for pictures of mature gardens with info regarding what's planted and how many in each square foot.

Alot of the pictures that I have seen so far don't quite look like square foot gardening, or are not nearly mature yet.

For example I see plans posted here for 8 bush beans in one square foot. I have not seen that type of quantity and condensed. From what I am reading in this subreddit a large quantity and variety should be planted in a single square foot. What I am seeing is 1 item per s.f.