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from: Mike Powell
date: 2023-02-12 09:54:00
subject: Re: Pick your own fruit

> Went and looked via the Bing search engine and found a pretty good item
> on "The Spruce" about upside-down planters. Their recommendations to do
> small tomatoes make me wish I had read that before doing my own right-
> side-up hanging planters. Big tomatoes are *heavy* and will breaks vines
> that are unsupported. If I were to do it today I'd grow nothing bigger
> than cherry/grape tomatoes and Campari or Roma (plum) tomatoes.

I usually plant cherry tomatoes in pots and let them grow up a trellis.  I
use old shoe strings to tie the vines as they get taller, so the don't blow
over and get crimped.  Some of them get to be over 6' tall.

> Best thing about growing your won 'maters is that they have *flavour*
> other than the soggy cardboard of most store bought varieties.

My favorite thing about cherry tomatoes is going out and picking a ripe one
on a warm summer day, especially if it has just rained.  Very tasty!

Mike


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