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Question by abc123_11580: What do I need to grow a vegetable and fruit garden?
I want to grow tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, grapes and okra. Where do i get the seeds? The strawberry seeds are kinda hard to find. What conditions do they grow best in?
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Answer by madbaggage
What country are you in? If the UK then Suttons seeds have a website.
Strawberries are started from a runner – a root of an existing plant, so you need to do a search for ‘strawberry plants’ not strawberry seeds.
Its best to keep them in pots or growbags.
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Man, how i wish i’d seen this advice sooner. I think i did take too many suckers off at once. Now my single vine plants are 5 feet tall and just now have tomatoes golfball size. Doing better now, but gonna need a ladder for picking them soon. haha! Thanks for the tip Also i have a small fish pond and the old water and dead fish make it into the beds next to my Tomatoes. I dig a small hole and drop the 4 inch cometfish about 4 inches deep.
Nice! Thanks, Mr. Point!
Picking off the suckers is a must for prductivity, but always leave the top ones, and don’t remove all from the plant at one picking. Stretch it out to 2-3 days. This prevents shock, and excessive bleeding from the plant. It also forces upwards growth. Good Luck! p.s…”fish fertilizer”. 😉
cheapest, and best way to do it. I’ve grown with the farmer for years, and we steak them with dowels, and tie them off as they grow. Easyer to spray, pick, and air out to prevent mold. Keep us posted!
Hi Kenny, and thanks! I tried the same thing last year, including removing all suckers. My only regret was not planting more Tomato plants, since I ended up with much more garden space and sunlight exposure to each plant. Can’t wait to eat a good tomato again. I can’t bare those mushie cardboard tasting ones from the store ever again! Thanks again!
Thanks. Great idea.
How did it go so far with this method? I will probably do the same thing for a lot of my tomatoes. Any issues?
Also any pro and con between using wire or string or twine?
we grow 3 different tomatoes that are very large and heavy,those cages do not work at all.your trellis system worked great! the only thing i needed to change,is spacing of the wires between the post,i am going to add two more wires.we did not have much luck with the clips,went to zip ties,they cut into the plant as they get bigger,ended with yarn,a couple wraps and it holds.BONUS the trellis helps to spot bugs easier. thx
why buy clips? use zip ties homie!
The wire will get very hot in summer and can burn of stems or tomatoes – string might be better?
Will this work with determinant (bushy) tomatoes?
Hi, one more question if I may. The clips I have looked at appear to be for vertical wire and not horizontal wire like you have. Is there any difference in the clips as it seems if you clip the main stem to a horizontal wire it would put a twist to the clip?
Hi, I think I’ll do the same thing this year with my tomatos. Thank you for the video and tip! When using the clips, do you clip only the main stem or do you clip branches too? Thanks!!
Thank you for your persistence with concerns of growing good tomatoe plants. Definetly tosing those dumb cages!
How did it work out?
Do u do a tomato contest? I think that would be fun next year for you and your viewers like me. You can harvest some unique seeds from your garden and gift them to the winners. Nice garden and videos. Your inspiring gardener. Thanks Eric
the wire is a little to small , I like,every 18 inches have a horizontal line, do not allow any horizontal branches till you get up 18 inches, keep your tomatoes plants clean, not too many branches, plain only the main branch climb the main post, now bend one to the right,and one branch to the left, bring your plant to grow six feet.
what will happen if you put two tomato plants on the same cone-shaped trellis, and what if they are different types of tomatos?
Great idea thanks
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I use metal posts and chicken wire. I can stagger the main fruiting stems in each direction. I have to. I have some tomatoes from Bulgaria that grow over 7 feet tall! They are succulant.
I belong to the Diggers Club who sells seeds and put out a catalogue with lots of helpful ideas.
I have found it best to get runners off already established strawberry plants. Check out all the different varieties as they vary in size and sweetness. We have found the Japanese variety to be nice and large and sweet. We live in an area with hot summers and cold winters and our strawberries grow best planted in a mound of rich soil(full of cow manure) and then cover the mounds with plastic(cutting a hole for the strawberry plant) The plastic cuts down on evaporation and weeds and keeps the fruit clean.
Till the dirt, clean out all the grass clumps, go to wal mart and get seeds and plant by the cover. First time is fun. Everyone remembers their first time.