Subj : Re: Pick your own fruit
To : DAVE DRUM
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Feb 12 2023 09:54:00
> 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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