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  1. I like Brandywine's for the best flavor, but they're pretty low yield, and temperamental. In a bad year, they can produce almost no fruit, but in a good year you can get more than you can eat. There are other kinds that start early and produce for quite a while. One thing I found when I started planting from seed is that there are seemingly hundreds of options for everything. When you go to a greenhouse, they might have 10-20 different tomatoes, but that is only a fraction of what is actually out there. Same thing for about anything you can grow. You mentioned radishes earlier, and this site has 23 different options for radishes, and 136 for tomatoes. It can be overwhelming, but I think picking out and trying different things is part of the fun.
  2. I usually plant mine outside in early-mid May. By then, they're usually 8-10 inches tall. They say a couple weeks after the last frost for planting outside, and for Indy, it shows the last frost is on average around April 25th. If you're planting just seeds outside, I'm not sure for that. It has to be pretty warm for them to germinate. Roughly 70-80 degrees is optimal. If it is too cold, they won't germinate. I've seen things online for making mini greenhouses out of things like milk jugs to help keep the seeds warmer. That should help you get them planted earlier. I would guess by mid to late April you could probably get them going. Worst case, plant them early, give them about 10 days, and if you don't have any growth you know it was too early. Then just try it again with new seeds. If you're looking to have tomatoes by the 4th of July, planning on a mid April plant date, you probably want a fairly quick maturing tomato. Something under 70 days, and you'll be close to having them by the 4th. Something like a Brandywine probably wouldn't be ready by then. A lot of it depends on the weather. A 70 day maturity time would be under optimal conditions, and usually in warmer climates than where we are. If it is a cool spring/summer, it will be cutting it close. If it is a warm spring/summer, it will mature quicker, and you should be able to get some by the 4th. A ton of different varieties out there based on size of the tomato, maturity, flavor, color, etc. Do you know what kind you're looking to plant?
  3. I'm a big fan of gardening. Actually ordered a bunch of seeds this morning, and probably going to start planting inside next week. I have a couple grow lights set up in my basement. At least I live in Illinois, so that isn't as suspicious anymore! I start in the little 1 inch pots that have 6 of them together. Get a handful of them in a large tray, so I can start 30-40 different seeds at a time. What I do is plant 3 seeds per cell, so about 100 seeds total. All kinds of different things. 4-5 kinds of tomatoes, a few different peppers, red cabbage, sauerkraut cabbage, broccoli, some herbs for early cuttings, and a few more things. If it is a seed that I need a lot of, when the plants are about 2 inches tall, I separate them into 4 inch pots. If I only need 1 or 2, I get rid of the worst looking ones. I give some plants to family and friends too, so I end up not throwing away many of the shoots. I set a fan up that blows on them at low speed to help give them stronger stems. A couple weeks before I'm planning on planting them outside, I start setting them outside. I grow them by my egress window in my basement, so it is easy to take them in and out each day. First for a couple hours, then for the whole day. I have a handful of things I only plant outside. Most herbs, lettuce, kale, peas, beans. There is definitely something fulfilling about growing plants from seeds and eating the final product. Looking forward to getting my garden going again this year!
  4. Gotcha. I would plant a few seeds in each pot, and once they are about 2-3 inches tall, leave the best looking one and cut/pull out the other ones. One per pot is good for tomatoes and peppers. I haven't done them like that, so I'm no help for pot size.
  5. Are you planning on keeping it in the pot for the duration or moving it to the ground at some point?
  6. Nice! They had a stud baseball player, Ryan Bird back in the early 2000s. Played well in the minors for a few years. I was a sophomore when he was a senior. I had faced him a few times before, and didn't do much. First at bat that game, he threw a low 90s fastball behind me. I had a pretty good reputation by that point, so I felt like it might have been on purpose. I tried to stare him down, not sure if that worked or not haha. Later in the game, I hit a 2 run home run off him in bottom of the 6th inning to put us up by 1. Put it into the pond at our baseball field. Definitely a memorable home run!
  7. We always played Armstrong-Potomac when I was growing up. One of my best sports memories was against them in baseball.
  8. North and a little west. Maybe they got a little more so it could build up some.
  9. That's about 45 minutes from where I live, and it has snowed here most of the day. Nothing really sticking, just a constant light snow.
  10. So you're saying this is the face of the coronavirus? No wonder people are scared of it!
  11. Sure! I'll have the flight stop by and pick you up on the way! I went about 8 years ago, and loved it. I almost moved out there. I got my Hawaii teaching license, but never made the leap. Still might some day.
  12. All Illinois public schools are closed from Tuesday thru March 30th. I kind of want to take a cheap flight to Hawaii and hope I get stranded out there for the next month. If I'm going to be stuck somewhere, might as well make it Maui!
  13. What area do you teach at? I teach about 100 miles south of Chicago in a rural district in Illinois, and we're really up in the air on what is going to happen here. Wouldn't be at all surprised if Illinois shuts everybody down like a few states have already done.
  14. I'm all stocked up on Chlorox wipes. Wipe is in the product name, so I figure I should be good.
  15. I feel like this is something that never happens at IU. A lot of teams have top prospects that they have a connection to that can help lead them to that school, but it seems like IU never has that. I'm sure being a historically bad program has been part of that issue, but maybe someday we'll have that. Like for you guys, Karlaftis played right next to the stadium, and Moore played at the high school that Brohm went to. Not that it is anything against you guys, you still have to do a great job recruiting them, but for once I want IU to have the inside edge on a high 4 or 5 star guy. You jerks!
  16. I was able to find a way to get a lot of my tools for "free." I have a Discover card and get cash back with it, and then with the cash back you can buy a $100 Lowes gift card for $90. Then go on Ebay and buy a 10% off at Lowes for a buck or two. I was able to get a Dewalt table saw, and a Dewalt drill set only using the cash back. I completely gutted an old house, and added a full basement underneath it, so I've needed all the tools I can get. As far as my DIY projects, gutted it myself, put up walls, ran all the electrical (64 can lights was a bad choice!), painted, and laid luxury vinyl tile throughout the kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry room, and 2 bathrooms. Did a lot of other smaller jobs along the way too. The previous lady who owned it was old and had been in a nursing home for the last few years, and we literally couldn't walk through the back yard because it was so overgrown. I don't really have any grass, so my next big project is to rent a trencher and run irrigation lines in the yard. Never done it before, but all the videos I've seen look like it would be pretty easy to do. Completely unnecessary to do, but it was such a piece of crap house and yard that I just want it to be over the top. The advantages of being a bachelor lol.
  17. Paste the link, hit enter, and it should pop up after a few seconds. That dog was crazy! Barely even hesitated! I would have peed myself haha.
  18. My dad has a handful of old cast iron pots and pans that he said he'd let me have once I finish renovating my house. Can't wait to get those cleaned up and seasoned to have a set of the good old ones.
  19. Sounds delicious! I always want to throw some rosemary on, but I never have any on hand. Sometimes I'll use a little garlic with it too. Never thought about the jalapenos. Might have to give that a shot!
  20. I don't have any tips on seasoning them, but I do have a tip for cooking the best steak you'll ever have on them. Crank the stove as hot as you can get it, dry the steak, and season it with a little vegetable oil and steak seasoning. I like the finer ground seasonings for cooking this way because the courser ground Canadian seasonings can burn. With a little oil smoking in the pan, pop the steak in. Flip after a couple minutes. When the temp is about 120, cut up some butter and toss it around the steak. When the butter is starting to pop, lift the steak, swirl the butter and set the steak back in the sizzling butter. Then tilt the skillet and spoon the butter over the steak for about 20-30 seconds. If the steak has a strip of fat on it, pick up the steak and sit it on the strip of fat for about 30 seconds to really crisp that up too. Unbelievable steak. Way better than anything you can cook on a grill.
  21. Thanks! In case people haven't seen the movie I linked, Almost Heroes is one of Chris Farley's best. Highly recommend watching it.
  22. What day does he get the salute of the day? He posted it June 4th, but you just saw it today. Is the salute of the day today or is it a retroactive salute for June 4th? And if it is June 4th, are you sure you didn't give somebody else the salute of the day for that day? Then it would be the salutes of the day. But if it is today, maybe his doctor has told him something difference since then, and the joke no longer applies? Plus, Rico is leading in the weight loss thread, so maybe his doctor would say something different now. I can't keep it all straight!
  23. I'll start another thread about people trying to losing weight. I'll see who wants to participate and go from there.
  24. I'm 6' and weigh 250 on a good day. The heck with all you little guys lol. I've always had a bigger build, and even when I played baseball in college where we ran probably 10 miles a week, did sprints, worked out, and ate decent, I was still 210. If I can get back down to 215 I'll be real happy. I think I'd have to starve myself to go back under 200. Would anybody be up for doing a separate thread just to motivate people to eat healthy and lose weight? I know my biggest thing is accountability, so I could get people's weight and put them in a spread sheet to show how much they are losing and what percentage they are losing. Anybody up for it?
  25. Maybe we should do an HSN weight loss competition. Winner gets a free months membership 💲💲💲💲💲💲
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