Growing Climbing Tomatoes | Growing Fruit and Vegies | Gardening Australia
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- If you want to grow enough tomatoes to bottle your own passata, you're going to need to get your tomato crop pumping. Josh has planting tips to take your tomato crop to new heights.
Plants
He has chosen Grosse Lisse tomatoes because they’ve performed well for him in the past, and planted up seeds about six weeks ago. They are a dual purpose variety: tasty enough for the table but with enough texture for sauce.
Soil preparation
Although Josh’s soil is already friable and rich after years of development, but tomatoes are hungry plants so he adds pelletised chicken manure for extra nitrogen, compost to improve water retention, potash to aid fruiting and rock minerals for trace elements that can be lacking in sandy soils.
Spacing and support
Giving plants enough space is important to allow air flow (which reduces the risk of disease) and to allow the sun to ripen fruit. Josh allows at least 60-70cm for each plant, in two rows about a metre apart. He builds a timber support, marking each plant’s space with a tall hardwood stake; you need about 2m for climbing vine tomatoes.
Planting
Josh plants each seedling, removing the juvenile bottom leaves so more of the stem goes in the soil; the plant will grow secondary roots that will help to stabilize it and increase its access to nutrients.
Mulch and maintenance
To help keep the soil moist, Josh mulches with lucerne. This, combined with regular watering, helps avoid blossom-end rot, which can be caused by irregular watering, or by lack of calcium in the soil. To settle the seedlings in, he applies some half-strength fish emulsion and will continue to do this every 3-4 weeks through the growing season. Side-dressing with potash again during the growing season provides potassium, which supports flower development, leading to more fruit. As the plants grow he will train two main shoots up the frame and prune off any other lateral side shoots.
This story was filmed on Whadjuk country
Featured plants:
Grosse Lisse tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv.)
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Hi Gardening Australia, Could we see an update on Josh’s climbing tomatoes? It would be great to see how the plants look when trained and pruned. Thanks! 🙂
I planted my baby tomatoes not long ago and they are just going off! I love looking at the garden and seeing them🥺✨
Looking forward to an update on your amazing crop please 🌿🙏
you guys should post your full episodes on youtube
You can access them in their website!!
@@gabrielasantos8289 i know but i find im 2 lazy to go to the website to watch them haha :p
Sending love
My tomatoes are growing really well. Living in QLD means I started planting weeks ago, some are almost ripe.
Nothing better than home grown tomatoes. Just put some seeds in the greenhouse of this very tomato. It’s too cold to be putting them outside yet.
i bought hooks for doing lower and lean method of stringing up tomatoes. i need to put in three strong T posts on a 8 metre row. cucumbers also same method. the T posts will be also usable to hold up trellises for beans and peas.
i finally got rid of raised beds as they're inflexible and waste time. also got rid of the large compost bays, which mostly produced cold soggy unfinished compost. making compost yourself saps so much time and heavy work, that you end up caring more for compost than for crops. just like in nature but accelerated, compost mostly becomes atmospheric carbon dioxide. also tends to be either soggy or hard to wet in a dry climate like melbourne.
biochar is a much more stable form of carbon and increases soil ability to hold water and nutrients. it's too expensive to buy and too much work to make usable quantities. an alternative way to make biochar is sugar and sulfuric acid. that's what they're looking into to make commercially viable biochar. it's easy to crumble and not alkaline. havent made any yet, due to lockdown. all precautions handling sulfuric acid.
nice plant sar
Josh,how did you grow those tomatoes this time of year please regards frank
I'm pretty sure he's got a glasshouse/hothouse and a mild climate.
I want to know what was that white rock something that you spread I don’t understand? Please reply.
Edna Ofelia Obungen josh is spreading rock minerals.. I think they may be also called" trace elements" which also comes in a powder you can get them from your hardware store
Do tomatoes get worms??? I'm a first time planter and I've been told the fruit will be full of worms!! I'm sort of grossed out and not sure what to do
That’s not a great thing to hear as a new tomato gardener! I don’t think that’s true at all :) Why not have a look on Gardening Australia’s website for info on growing tomatoes, and on preventing pests? I’m confident you can grow yummy tommies! 👍🤞🍅 Go for it, and have fun 😀
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