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Title: Garden—tomatoes from seed to harvest
Post by Jovial Monk on Sep 20^th, 2025 at 2:37pm

Am about to watch this as it is tomato planting time in the South Island. Will see what it says and report back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDiu2YS_khU

Title: Re: Garden—tomatoes from seed to harvest
Post by Jovial Monk on Sep 20^th, 2025 at 4:31pm

Planted 10 egg cartons with San Marzano tomato seeds.

10 x 12 x 2 = 240 seeds (more like 300 seeds in reality.)

Filled the cartons with seed raising mix, poured water + Maxicrop over the mix, added the seeds, covered thinly with more seed raising mix then covered all with a thick wet cloth, poured more water over the cloth.

That wasn’t all: I filled a shallow bowl with water and added five quandong stones. They will soak until tomorrow afternoon then get planted in peat pots.

Title: Re: Garden—tomatoes from seed to harvest
Post by Jovial Monk on Sep 20^th, 2025 at 4:47pm

Hmmmmmm uh oh!

Bloody wallabies will eat the tomato plants, damn them! So wire netting will be needed.

According to some quick googling, they hate lavender so I will gets lots of lavender seedlings!

Neighbor on the corner plants corn each year, they seem to leave that alone.

Hmmmmm