I am going to try this ASAP. Some experts say to pinch these sucker leaves off; others say leave them for the foliage. Now there is a GREAT reason for cutting some of them off! Basically, it’s free tomato plants, ready to set out about the time the first round starts to wilt and...
Growing tomato plants can take a long time. From seed to small plant it can take well up to eight weeks and that’s not counting the work you’ll do thinning, pricking them out, and re-potting. I’ve found an easier way to grow them though — propagating tomato plants from stem cutt...
You can root fall tomatoes easily from existing tomato plants. The “old” plants continue to grow and produce in your garden while new seedlings take root. Then, by planting “cloned” seedlings, you can enjoy a whole new late tomato crop. This simple “cloning” method has several ...
Always grow tomatoes in cages or on trellises to get the plant off the ground and it will produce 2x more fruit then if it is on the ground.(it is true you lose 50% of the crops as it sits on the ground a rots) –Always plant more then one type of tomato, plant determinate as...
Lift young shoots and replant them to make new plants. Dig up a healthy shoot or sucker with a garden fork; make sure some roots are attached to the shoot. Cut the sucker and roots away from the mother plant. Replant it immediately in a pot or elsewhere in the garden; do not let ...
The first step in growing this variety of cherry tomato plants is identifying the preparation process you want to follow: Do you want to sow the seeds? Do you buy seedlings ready to plant? Keep in mind that you can’t save and plant seeds from sun sugars from the last year as these ...
When the main stalk is 6 to 8 months old, permit one sucker to develop as a replacement stalk for the following season. Banana plants near harvest time Bananadiseases Bananas stop growing when temperatures drop below 53° to 57°F; if temperatures drop lower banana skins turn greyish-brown ...
I have always been a sucker for big textural variety in foods, but when you have no meat you really notice it, I reckon. A former vego friend of mine who now eats meat a few times a week said he realised that he had gone for years without ever using a knife – that virtually all...
As far asbirds eating your berries– yes, they love them. The first time I bought bird netting to cover my plants, it became such a tangled mess that I found it all but impossible to harvest the berries. It’s better to let the birds take a little fruit off the top than to deal ...
The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP),Diaphorina citri, is a harmful pest of citrus trees that transmitsCandidatusLiberibacter spp. which causes Huanglongbing (HLB) (citrus greening disease); this is considered to be the most serious bacterial disease of citrus plants. Here we detail an anatomical study...