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RE: Garden update #1
Didn't know about them either, it's the first time I'm growing them from seeds I've found by accident on ebay.
Didn't know about them either, it's the first time I'm growing them from seeds I've found by accident on ebay.
Always nice to have a space saver. I like zucchini though. Must be the italian coming out of me. The plants have really gotten too large in the past as you can see. I didn't grow the hairy vetch there last winter so maybe the plant will stay a little smaller this year with less nitrogen in the ground.
I see you have a lot of things growing up strings. Someone else posted that too. I never really used strings but maybe I will give it a try.
Strings are great for the tomatoes I chose. I grow only the indeterminate type ones and I remove all suckers to keep a single stem growing. After the first tomatoes set I remove all the leaves under the truss. The indeterminate tomatoes don't stop growing so when they reach the top you can give the string a bit more slack, push it along the line above and lower your plants this way.
I grow early girls and romas for cooking. The romas do well in baskets but the EGs grow straight up. I start toping in June and let some suckers go to discourage them from going straight up but they still 9 or 10 feet high. By August I'm using a ladder to pick. I'll put some pictures out in August. I have a tomato secret I'll let everyone in on when I post on tomatoes.
Nice! Can't wait to see them and the big secret reveal!