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+ | ===== Growing indeterminate tomatoes ===== | ||
+ | My wife and I can most of the tomatoes we grow. The rest we give away. I'm looking for a good, blight-resistant, | ||
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+ | ==== To trim or not to trim ==== | ||
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+ | I had most of my tomatoes in a hoop house (see [[garden: | ||
+ | * Allow only 4 suckers from the main stalk | ||
+ | * Disallow suckers from suckers | ||
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+ | I gave the same treatment to tomatoes in two other locations. | ||
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+ | ==== Lots of tall plants ==== | ||
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+ | ==== 2015? ==== | ||
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+ | Next season, I will grow only my TPS Golden tomato in the hoop house (along with peppers and eggplant - just for the heck of it). I have added four perlins to one of the sections of the hoop house to allow me to string up these indeterminate fellows and let them climb. | ||
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+ | ==== Hoop house mods ==== | ||
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+ | I 'll be letting each one reach for the sky, along the string to which it is attached, trimming off lower leaves below a fruit cluster and trimming any suckers. The hoop house isn't tall, so it won't take long for them to reach the top, but I'll see about lowering each down as appropriate and coiling the vine on the ground. | ||
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+ | I considered using the red plastic mulch to encourage formation of fruit. This seems complex to me, so I'll need to work out things like watering and weeding in a later season. |