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For my home garden for tomatoes and peppers I use a roll of red plastic and drip tape under the plastic. Make sure you add sufficient slow release organic fertilizer before planting.
Looks great Luke!
Still getting upper 20 degree nights here, even though we had a week of upper 80s/60 degree nights. Not planting yet…. Glad your following your dream. We have a much smaller scale mini farm. I envy your energy, but I've got 30-40 years on you😂 Glad I can still do it
I didn’t see you labeling the plants. What will be your system to keep up with what’s what?
Are there any varieties in there that we haven’t seen at MIG before?
Growing many varieties, how do you prevent cross pollination?
did the same thing with cutting an X and planting through the material to suppress weeds, I used landscape fabric instead since its what I had on hand, I was concerend with suppressing weeds and i put mulch on top of it anyway and didn't want weeds growing through the mulch if possible. End of season if the mulch dries out and starts looking like it's breaking down, I may pull up the fabric, put the mulch underneath for winter, let it break down and if it does enough, blend it into the soil and repeat the method next year. Thing was how do you get enough water/fertilizer to it after the initial planting when you only have that slit open where the plant comes out? it's like you'd have to have drip lines already set up under the plastic or have to get down and individually water/fertilize each stem one at a time
Super excited for yall…what a dream come true
What is the purpose of all these tomatoes? Is he trying to sell sauce? Or just have people come and pick their own.
How do you handle gophers help with them good farm offensive tips plz!!!!
By baling twine, you are talking about a plastic, jute, hemp or sisal product. There is also a genuine steel wire baling method, which you might consider for growing grapes, but not tomatoes. That said, there are products that allow the "Florida weave" to be done with a foam line that has a thin soft steel wire at the center. It costs quite a bit more than the other solutions. Garden Answers carries one such product called "Rapiclip" which comes in 16-foot spools, or there's a plastic tape product to attach your tomato plant to the line and still get the "weave" going just right. Finally, it turns out that Garden Answers happens to carry a smaller roll of plastic baling twine, which is UV-stabilized to be sunlight resistant (just like the plastic agricultural haying twine that I've used), they all it "DeWitt Tree Rope". Enjoy!
I thought you already out yours out already. Oerfect timing, mine go out sunday, will start hardening wed/thurs
Hey Luke I had a fun and curious idea yesterday and you made this video today so that's funny I feel like you have the space but I imagine a long growing season would be necessary to try it out. The idea is kinda hard to explain in words, probably better visually but I'll give it a shot.
It would start out on one side similar to a grape vine but crisscrossed like a privacy wall and Florida weaved. As the tomato plants get taller and long, slowly the lower and burry the base vine in the ground for more roots and move the main stakes across a large area keeping it a similar height majority of the time and removing suckers. A tomato "fence" that moves over time per say.
thinking about the suckers(which i didnt think about until just now 🤔) if you left them, would that make a tomato forest? 😅😂🤷🏽♀-Loba
Boy do I need one of those augers. LOL Been using a post hole digger. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. 😀
Planting with plastic covering terrifies me. I worry about killing my good microbes, causing an anarobic conditions due to lack of oxygen. We have the luxury of growing our own hay without any herbicides or pesticides. We use the hay to cover most of the dirt, essentially creating what you did with the plastic. It also feeds the soil when it breaks down and also helps retain moisture so we don't have to water often at all. Do we still get weeds? Of course, but way less than leaving it bare. Gotta love Ruth Stout ❤️
i wonder what category of hurricane that florida weave is designed to withstand (joke). probably a week or two out from the first maters of the season! got to try my asparagus this season for the first time a couple weeks ago. my allegedly all-male crowns ended up being half female darn the luck.
Thank you!!!
Man it hurts my soul to see all this plastic around food. Why not just mulch?
So nice of you to mention Garden Answer (Arron and Laura)😊 I have heard them mention you as well. I love how garden channels help each other ❤🌺❤
Oh, I was thinking my tomatoes were looking under-sized at this time of year . . . but they are the same size as yours (and I'm north of you, so still unable to transplant out), so seeing yours looking like this tells me I'm not too far behind.
I use the Florida weave every year. Works great.
Love the soil auger, didn't know it was a thing. 😊 I also watch the YT channel called The Veggie Boys where they let their rows of tomatoes grow on the biodegradable ground cover and they don't stake or support any of it. What can you tell us about cross pollinating? I assume you'll have multiple varieties.
I feel this planting process would go much faster for you if you:
Cut & pinned all the holes in the tarping.
With 2 people. One cut & one pins.
Than on your 2nd pass:
Drill the holes (which are already pinned & outta your way)
2nd person follows behind & put in the plant
Or
Take a 3rd pass: on your own to put plants in.
Fairly certain your planting would go much faster.
Processes like this often go quicker when you treat it as an assembly line with your planning.
In theory….
I did this method last year but used netting. Had the best harvest but after the fruit was growing it was so heavy it pulled the netting down. Will do again this year. Awesome method.
Do not use jute twine, it will fail.
Be sure to use a non-degradable heavier tensile twine that will resist streaching or it will fail. Would hat to see your thousands of tomatoes flop over.
Florida weave!
No concerns about micro plastics or leeching?
Isn’t that asking for more weeds by cutting the tarp instead of burning a hole? I think you are asking for trouble as it will tear. ❤️🙏 this will be interesting to see.