staking tomatoes and planting cucumbers

staking tomatoes and planting cucumbers - This week in the patch

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Come and join me as i continue to work on my second planting of tomatoes. This week i am staking and adding additional fertiliser to the plants. As part of my succession planting i am also planting out the last round of cucumbers for the season. I am direct seeding the cucumber rows in this planting as the weather is warm enough for good germination
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timecodes
00:00 tomato planting review
01:23 adding potash to the tomaotoes
04:24 staking the tomato plant
05:33 hilling the tomato plants
07:39 final result
08:33 clearing the bed to plant cucumbers
09:15 adding amendments
10:11 forming the rows
11:13 planting the seeds
13:16 final result

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@keithhilton8869 6 ай бұрын

Hi Anthony, great explanation as usual. Thanks for providing a great entertaining channel. Cheers. 👍

@Mrdesidownunder 6 ай бұрын

Amazing crop and great succession planting regime, Thanks for sharing

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching mate 👍

@mudmaker2133 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Anthony great video as always, your tomatoes are coming along nicely looks like they really enjoyed the extra feed..

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

Yeah they move fast. It’s funny I grow a lot of commercial varieties and they are more vigorous than the open pollinated types so when I plant these I always feel that they are struggling

@mudmaker2133 6 ай бұрын

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 The commercial varieties are bread to be more disease resistant, vigorous and consistent in growth than the open pollinated but I'm sure you'll enjoy the change. Let us know if you notice any difference in flavour.

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

@@mudmaker2133 hi mate i find that generally speaking that the flavour is driven by the freshness of the harvest. With tomatoes the oxhearts and the beefsteaks definitely taste better than the other slicing varieties but the cherry tomatoes i find the commercial varieties are sweeter

@Chris-op7yt 2 ай бұрын

i used to muck around with stakes and other things, and now i use the tomahooks with strings, pruning to single stem, and havent looked back. initial outlay was worth it for me. no more bumbling around with stakes as tomatoes grow. clips onto strings, and prune all suckers. plants are neat and tidy and planted close to each other. last summer i did get an outbreak of root knot nematodes for first time, which reduced my crop, but that's another story

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 2 ай бұрын

Hey mate do you plant your tomatoes outdoors? I have been thinking about a string trellis system for my tomatoes but I am thinking about the best way to set up the trellis system to slow for this arrangement to work at my place. Thinking about buying some steel piping to set this up in my patch for this years tomatoes

@Chris-op7yt 2 ай бұрын

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 : i used rectangular galv tubing, but only the galv stakes deep into ground, and bolted onto tubing. i didnt used to have a top cross bar, but needed it. drive.google.com/file/d/1YyRUWt_TBrRfnDS10jHlqtuxA5H_AEBn/view?usp=drivesdk

@kathyr186 6 ай бұрын

Hi Anthony, I hope you are OK. Miss your video.

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

Hi Kathy I’m still around for the last 2 weeks I have been on holidays with the family so I have been away from my computer and haven’t been able to edit. I will be back home Tuesday and have a couple of videos worth to edit and post this week. Thanks for thinking about me 😀👍

@Calabrese_della_testa_dura 6 ай бұрын

Great video and the veggie patch is looking healthy. You mentioned wettable sulphur to treat spider mites, could you recommend a brand and how you apply it please? Might be limited here on the west coast as we really only have the “big green warehouse” to buy our stuff from. Cheers mate and happy gardening!

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

Hi Anthony I use this brand that you can get from Bunnings I don’t think the brand matters as long as it has the same active ingredient www.bunnings.com.au/manutec-500g-wettable-sulphur_p2961530

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

And when you apply it I would do it nominally every 10 days as a preventative to control mites but it also works as a fungicide. There are 2 things you need to know though. Do not spray rock melon or cucumbers with it it will burn them. Second do not use it if you have been using white oil or neem oil on your plants. The wettable sulfur and your horticultural oil sprays don’t mix and will also burn your plants. So I use pyrethrum instead of oils as my contact spray and this is safe to use with wettable sulfur

@joshlovegood9392 6 ай бұрын

Hi Anthony , everythings looking great! I was just wondering why you don't use mulch to conserve moisture in such a hot climate?

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

I use mulch but not in the traditional sense. I use a living mulch in the sense that I plant my plants at a spacing that the plants shade the ground and cool the soil. I also at the younger stage use manures that cover the soil but also agitate the top layer of soil with my wire weeder and this acts as a mulch barrier to cool the soil also.

@uppanadam 6 ай бұрын

Update on my tomatoes: They are finally going red!! Only taken 4 months since planting?? LOL!!

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

Hahaha 4 months is a long time 😂

@uppanadam 6 ай бұрын

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Yeah...not sure if edible or not?? But could probably go in a casserole maybe?? LOL!!

@flyntlike 6 ай бұрын

but how do you stop blackbirds from digging up the hilled up soil?? the birds so that all the time and expose the new roots. drives me insane😵‍💫

@Charles00-xj3kz 6 ай бұрын

I place tree fern fronds on top of my beds. Stops blackbirds completely. They are easy to pick up and move around when weeding etc.

@sydneybackyardveggies9612 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I would usually use a mesh that I can lay over the plants if they are small. Larger plants putting sticks or fronds as Charles suggested would work best