Gardening with Bozz

in #gardening6 years ago

You might recall at the end of May I planted my small bucket garden in the raised bed in my back yard.

Things have been going well. The plants seem to be getting enough moisture and they are now growing like crazy!

You will see quite the difference between the original picture I posted to the right here and the current pictures I am going to post below.

I had noticed the other day when I was watering the plants that they didn't seem to have a ton of flowers on them.

This got me concerned that they were not being properly pollinated or that I wasn't going to get a huge yield from them.

I read online that sometimes if your soil has too many nutrients in it the plants will just grow and grow without feeling the need to reproduce. They suggested trimming back some of the lower parts of the plant to put it in "panic" mode.

This will make the plant think it is in danger and produce more buds to try to reproduce. I decided to try this out with one of the plants to see if it made a difference.

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The picture above is the plant I decided to make my experiment. This is before I trimmed back some of the lower branches that were not looking as healthy.

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The other two plants I decided to just leave alone. I think they are coming right along though!

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As I was moving around the plants to decide which parts to trim off, I noticed something I hadn't seen before:

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It looks like for sure, I am going to have some tomatoes before too long. We are supposed to have some very hot and humid weather this weekend, so I have a feeling that it is going to make things accelerate.

What do you think fellow Steemians? Anything we should be doing differently to make sure we get the most of our cherry tomato plants? We have a ton of flower beds between our house and the neighbor next door, so I don't think lack of bees for pollination are a problem.

I can't wait to share some pictures of bright red ripe tomatoes with you soon!

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Most tomato plants are self fertile, this means that you do not need to pollinate them. Secondly it's very hard to over feed tomatoes and fertilizer or good soil will increase your yield, not decrease it. One thing you can do to increase that amount of tomatoes is to not trim the side shoots this will result in more tomatoes but they could be smaller, so make sure you feed them well when you see the trusses . Next year you could try a couple of different varieties, the variety suited to your climate and soil is the most significant factor when determining quantity. Liquid tomato feed works wonders, you can even make your own from stinging nettles and other weeds. I feed mine at least once a week as soon as I see trusses.

Hah! Shows how much I know. Thanks for the awesome info. I am going to try to get out and work on them this weekend now if it isn't too hot!

Yeah have fun, every gardener will probably tell you a different way of doing things so I find it's best to try lot's of different things, tomatoes do however love liquid feed, I you just try that, you won't go far wrong 😀

Thanks. I have the three plants so I could try something different with a couple of them and leave one as a control and see what happens. You helped a lot!

Haha. Gardening.... if only we here loved it as much as you guys.
When we get: "Its olive season, Its potato season, its vineyard season"... we all go: "oh noot again"... :(

hehe

Yes, I am sure it would be much different if I were doing it to make a living or even survive :) I worked in the field one summer at my aunt and uncles farm. I will stick to my small garden!

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I am not much of a gardener myself. I do remember having a little garden when I was on elementerary school. Every wednesday we went to our own garden to grow vegetables and flowers. Always had fun. Looking forward to your tomatoe pics.

Thank you!

BAZINGA That's what I'm talking about!!
Those are lookin' FABULOUS!

I don't know much about gardening, but seems like someone came in with some answers. I love cherry tomatoes and I'm sure you'll be enjoying them soon enough!

Thank you!

A life of paradoxes

  • too many nutrients stop reproduction
  • trim back to help grow
  • hurry up and wait.

Sounds like life. Glad your tomato plants are doing better now.

That is new for me! So if the soil has TOO much nutrients, the plant will get lazy and not work for it, if I understand correct?

CRAZY!

Yes, that was the way I read it too. Who knew!

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