![]() ![]() ![]() If I had the money I would have a big netted set-up. Grasshoppers do extraordinary damage in a short space of time. I spray with pyrethrum for the caterpillars and catch the grasshoppers by hand. The biggest problems are grasshoppers and caterpillars. Possums apparently destroy vegie gardens in Brisbane but our local possums have not touched ours, not sure why. There is fruit fly about, though I have left some tomatoes unbagged as tests and they have not been stung. I bag all the fruit with special fruit bags. She would eat a dozen a day if we could produce that many. The ones closest are hydroponic.Īnd here is Ada eating yellow pears. The ones near the keys are from a dirt based plant that, admittedly, has been growing and fruiting for 4 months. Gorgeous little fruit, very prolific and indestructible plants. However, we are getting fabulous tomatoes. Set up your water reservoir and submersible pump. Right now we have sunlight issues as sunlight and shadow areas are changing. Fill the net pots with your chosen growing medium and place the pots in the bucket lids. I’d like to start making my own nutrient one day. You can buy fruiting nutrient especially for tomatoes and once we did this there was immediate improvement. They were also pretty twisted and I’ve had to straighten them which some were fine with, others not. We hacked off their roots and cut back to one or two stems so the plants took a while to get going again. Their roots took over the channels and went down the home table return pipe into the reservoir, so the simple answer is to get them started to about 10cm high in the home table then move them straight into this system. These tomatoes did not appreciate the move from the home table and there was a bit of a set back there. This is right by the corner of the house so the pump cord comes in through a window for power. The pump pumps out of the hole on the right. The return pipe runs on gravity so it needs to be lower than the plants. I’ve found that tomatoes are really susceptible to nutrient deficiencies/toxicity and a bigger tub would be more stable. It’s quite small (45L) and really should be bigger. This is the reservoir at the end of the bricks. I’ve unfortunately got a hedge growing right behind so there’s a limit to how much lowering I can do. As the stem reaches the pole you can then let out some more string and ‘lower’ the plant. As the tomato stem grows I wind it around the string. I tie some string to the tomato plant near the bottom of the stem and then to the pole above. I’ve got a bamboo support structure that is straining already, but I’m not sure what else to do at this stage.Įach tomato plant has two stems. Three of the buckets have net bags that I sewed to stop the roots going down the return pipe. Each one has a hole at the bottom with an ‘elbow’ and grommet so excess water can go into the return pipe. I’ll expand when I get some cash.Įach bucket has a hole in the lid for the plant and a dripper to be inserted. In this system I have 5 buckets (there’s room for 11) sitting along the bricks. ![]()
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