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Finally, got around to clearing some space in GH no 2 and planted 7 tomatoes in their final position.
It wouldn't have taken so long if the old canes had been good enough to reuse - but they weren't, so I had to find some more. I'd cut a lot of bamboo down a few weeks ago and it had been stored under the roof of the log store to dry out. I'm just a bit too vertically challenged to reach them easily, so it involved standing on a stool on the lowest side of the roof and pushing individual canes until they appeared on the far side, where I could hook them down with a hooky things and pull them out.
Needless to say, they were all too long to go in the GH so I had to cut them down - dry bamboo is tough on the old secateurs - and me.
Then it was decision time - which 7 tomatoes should I plant?
From memory, the lucky ones were San Marzano, Scatalone, Paul Robeson, Urban's Gardener's Delight, Eve's Purple Ball, Pertseviddny Red and Red Buffalo Horn.
Will try to plant some more tomorrow - only another 30+ plants to plant or rehome!
It wouldn't have taken so long if the old canes had been good enough to reuse - but they weren't, so I had to find some more. I'd cut a lot of bamboo down a few weeks ago and it had been stored under the roof of the log store to dry out. I'm just a bit too vertically challenged to reach them easily, so it involved standing on a stool on the lowest side of the roof and pushing individual canes until they appeared on the far side, where I could hook them down with a hooky things and pull them out.
Needless to say, they were all too long to go in the GH so I had to cut them down - dry bamboo is tough on the old secateurs - and me.
Then it was decision time - which 7 tomatoes should I plant?
From memory, the lucky ones were San Marzano, Scatalone, Paul Robeson, Urban's Gardener's Delight, Eve's Purple Ball, Pertseviddny Red and Red Buffalo Horn.
Will try to plant some more tomorrow - only another 30+ plants to plant or rehome!
The Moneyless Chicken says:-
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.