East Hill Edible Gardening how high do you have to hang them to keep them out of reach to the alligators and crocodiles

@@clearingbaffles They are only interested when they are juiced and used in Bloody Marys, so no worries! lol

26 FEET LONG?!? *mind blown*

Where is the video of this 26 foot long plant?

Wow! 😛

What was your spacing

@@1231dre 12"O.C , Rows @ 60".O.C. (Push pollinated)

Me too.

I wonder what would be the smallest area for this type of cultivation.

You could probably do it with much less width, but the height is critical and the more length you have the better. We've got maybe 30'x20' (about 10m x 6m) of good sunny yard space, so I'm not really considering this myself. I do wonder about how I could adapt from it for some vine on an upward angle though.

@@jeffengel2607 thankyou for the reply. I am from small island and we import all of the vegetables from main land. I was wondering if I could introduce it to my island and motivate a few other people in to this. Could you recommend some good reading/videos regarding intensive cultivation techniques. Good luck with your green house.

@@zidanethalib MIGardener's channel here on KZfaq has a wealth of videos on intensive home gardening, aiming at mid-sized plots. The creator is in Michigan, in the north-central United States, so the specific crops may vary a bit from what you would be going for (or not - he's got a lot on intensive tomato growth, which _does_ scale to small plots) but the general techniques should apply. Huw Richards does good videos too - maybe a little more for general techniques but with cooler still climate.

@@jeffengel2607 thanks again. I will check out.

Thanks for the compliment David. To see some other varieties we've grown here at the University of Rhode Island, see my reviews at our Digital Commons site: digitalcommons.uri.edu/riaes_bulletin/

I will check that out - thanks.

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How did it turn out?

Debbie, I agree with you completely about the misconception about the magic of Epsom salt. However, growing tomatoes under this set of conditions is very demanding of nutrients (and water). Magnesium deficiency usually shows up at some point. Research has shown that it is usually temporary while the root system is growing deeper to where there are more nutrients. But magnesium is a macronutrient- plants use a lot of it; so is sulfur. A tomato plant that produces over 20 lbs of fruit eats up lots of magnesium, and potassium and calcium. All should be in abundant supply. Visible signs of deficiency (such as blossom end rot, a deficiency of calcium) is rarely from lack of that nutrient in the soil. It's a (usually) temporary physiological imbalance.

However, Andy, Epsom Salts can deprive the fruit of calcium by inhibiting uptake of calcium from the soil. If one has a magnesium deficiency, then you should add magnesium. Blossom End Rot is caused by a calcium deficiency at the fruiting site. How much magnesium and calcium is available to your plants is dependent partly on your ph. I just am discouraged when folks are advised to add Epsom Salts without the info they need to understand that it can do damage, can actually cause otherwise healthy plants to develop BER, can divert the plants resources to developing foliage instead of fruit. Personally, I add calcium with gypsum, which does not alter the ph, which stays around 6.9 in my garden. I have never needed magnesium and have regular soil tests. Most home gardeners never need magnesium. Yes, with intense growing, or a very low ph, you may need to add magnesium. Folks really should know the difference, and a soil test will tell them what they need.

He lost me at hay as a source of organic matter.

@@andyradin7992 exactly...it is a widespread problem that people say to add certain products as though they are universal when all soils are different however in this case the grower added about 1kg mag sulphate to about 200m2 of heavy feeding seasonal tomatoes which is maintenance amounts and won't harm anything. He wasn't saying to use it anywhere anytime either because his only reason for discussing nutrition was in relation to the cost basis that particular demo crop

Hi David- sorry for the delayed reply! I should have been getting notifications of when comments were made... Anyway, to your questions: Probably the main issue outside is that you'd have to have a structure in place to hold it all up. Perhaps if you have an old hoophouse structure that you are not using, you'd have something with enough strength. Remember also that if you use an overhead cable, the ends of the structure will try to pull inward, so bracing is necessary. Sunscald may be less of an issue outside, actually, because with more moving air, the fruit tissue cannot accumulate heat faster than heat is lost. Sunscald is thought to begin when the fruit tissue reaches 86 degrees (edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/HS/HS20000.pdf). Still, foliage cover is important to prevent it, either inside or out. Good quesion about bare vines on the ground: I've never seen stem diseases enhanced by this. Plastic mulch will prevent vines from rooting, but I can't say whether that matters, unless you are using grafted plants.

❤ Love your method.. am inspired . Tnk you!!

Haven't heard of this; I have to wonder if it was either in a warmer climate or in a heated greenhouse. There are some people who grow hydroponic plants for well over a calendar year, so the cumulative production of that one plant (if it can be kept alive and disease/whitefly free) could really add up.

No

a 30' x 96' high tunnel usually costs around $10 000

Gene Murphy she was farting that’s for sure

@@osamab814 Even better.

I was thinking the same thing. He had very good control.

Valeria Todd bet your neighbors would be happy for that

Amazon

I think that's his wholesale price because he uses so many, but if you go to Amazon, you can get them for $2 apiece - "tomato J hooks" or "tomato support hooks" - Also, the clips for the tomatoes are available there as well - you can get 200 for about $10.

how'd it go? -Curious

It actually went pretty well. I hung them on the tomato hangers like in the video, then just tied several pieces of 10' twine together by folding them in half and tying them in a loop in the middle. I hung those on the hanger, then just tied off all of the various branches and trained them up. Couldn't do the leaning and lowering part, but I was able to get some of them to grow over 7' and had a really nice yield. Next year they will have a proper high tunnel to live in and will get in nice and early, so this technique should work great.

Sounds like partial success, Darby, which is great! Next year (or should I say this year), get right on that axillary bud pinching and stay with it. Actually, for me it becomes an obsession...

Well once I had a similar situation. I bought 18 bush tomato plants but obviously the guy at the shop was new and gave me indeterminate plants. After planting them it took me almost 2 months to realize what happened but I didn't had the same luck with you. Bad wet weather for long period gave me some blight and ruined the plants. However I wanted to add that I did an experiment. One raw (6 plants) I let only one stem, the second raw I let 2 stems and the third one three stems. Before the blight take the plants I surly got a good amount of tomatoes out of the 2 and 3 stemed plants. From that time I usually leave 2 stems per plant and cut the bottom leafs as soon as I can...

Don’t over analyse just get on with it

In 99% of regions replant every year.

Up in Rhode Island our winters don’t allow the tomato plants to stay alive thru the winter... so new plants. He said he’d panted new ones mid April....

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GO FOR TOMATOES AND LEAVE ORANGES. TOMATOES ARE SAFER THAN ORANGES. UNAUTHORIZED TOUCHING OF ORANGES CAN EARN YOU JAIL TIME.

I found them at www.johnnyseeds.com price is not the same. Tomahook case of 287 $89,,,,,, Tomato clip's $149 for 9,250

That's true. I can't either. I'm 72 and not in the best of health. But it sure is nice to see what others are able to do, isn't it? And this is a University, so we'd hope to learn something. I think what they did is great. Have a nice day!

So you must have bad soil...You dont need epsom salt to grow tomotoes!

One source for the clips is Amazon, posted above. This is not my link, but looks legit: www.amazon.com/Vegetable-Garden-Tomato-Trellis-Clips/dp/B00579X2HC

The straw stops weeds from growing as a mulch

Really? You also have the sunshine duuuh..

I ordered mine from Nolt's Midwest Produce Supply. www.noltsproducesupplies.net/ You have to call to oder but they have the best prices I have found.

Khaleefa X this comment killed me. 😂 Feel like this poor man struggled most of the interview

..dumbass...

YOU SOUND LIKE A CAMERA MAN.

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To show cleavage and say "ok"... lol