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Ajax Gold Member Offline CO2 has never controlled temperature on Earth Posts: 10958 Australia Gender:	Home grown Feb 18^th, 2018 at 4:38pm I looked for the old tomato thread couldn't find it. Anyway had to put up a net for our tomatoes birds where getting into them. There's plenty of fruit and they're just about to ripen.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95485 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #1 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 4:54pm Good work. My tomatoes were not successful - despite good soil, full sun, nutrients & water - I only got 10 tiny cocktail tomatoes - that's it.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20231 Gordon Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #2 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 5:01pm Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 4:54pm: Good work. My tomatoes were not successful - despite good soil, full sun, nutrients & water - I only got 10 tiny cocktail tomatoes - that's it. From what you spent on the plants fertilizer and your time, how much per tomato?
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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5802 Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #3 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 5:10pm There's nothing like home grown tomatoes. They actually have flavour! Same with sweet corn.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39522 Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #4 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 6:39pm Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 4:54pm: Good work. My tomatoes were not successful - despite good soil, full sun, nutrients & water - I only got 10 tiny cocktail tomatoes - that's it. drat, that is very disappointing. All gardeners have had that happen
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Reply #5 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 6:41pm

Gordon wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 5:01pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 4:54pm:

Good work.
My tomatoes were not successful -
despite good soil, full sun, nutrients & water -
I only got 10 tiny cocktail tomatoes - that's it.

From what you spent on the plants fertilizer and your time, how much per tomato?

It would have been a lot cheaper to buy them.

I don't know why it failed.
Maybe some bug got into the roots of the plant?

I have always had great success before.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95485 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #6 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 6:59pm Here it is:
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95485 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #7 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 7:00pm And a close up
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Agnes Gold Member Offline fish dinner Posts: 6081 Bedford Park rnd	Re: Home grown Reply #8 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 7:48pm Ajax wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 4:38pm: I looked for the old tomato thread couldn't find it. Anyway had to put up a net for our tomatoes birds where getting into them. There's plenty of fruit and they're just about to ripen. https://preview.ibb.co/c7YRBS/tom.jpg it was in the Tavern Ajax- anyway
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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5802 Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #9 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 7:56pm Too much grass around it Bobby. Unless it is a tree with a really strong root system the grass will always win in a situation like that. The grass will be taking all the nutrients and water. See how green the grass is in a ring around the tomato plant?
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Reply #10 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 8:00pm

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 7:56pm:

Too much grass around it Bobby. Unless it is a tree with a really strong root system the grass will always win in a situation like that.

The grass will be taking all the nutrients and water.

See how green the grass is in a ring around the tomato plant?

It has worked before on a lawn.
The grass is green because it was robbing the water used on tomato plant.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95485 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #11 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 8:03pm It started out like this last November:
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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5802 Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #12 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 8:03pm It's not ideal to grow vegies like that even though you have had success in the past with it. Eventually it will fail. You were lucky before lol Dig a small garden (preferably raised) especially for the vegies and keep the grass well out of it and you won't go wrong.
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Black Orchid Moderator Offline Posts: 5802 Gender:	Re: Home grown Reply #13 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 8:06pm It is surrounded by vigorous root competition. Grass will always win out.
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Reply #14 - Feb 18^th, 2018 at 8:06pm

Black Orchid wrote on Feb 18^th, 2018 at 8:03pm:

It's not ideal to grow vegies like that even though you have had success in the past with it. Eventually it will fail. You were lucky before lol

Dig a small garden (preferably raised) especially for the vegies and keep the grass well out of it and you won't go wrong.

Yes - I'll do that next time.

Where it worked before the soil was sandy.
This time the soil is hard clay -
and I dug a hole & put in potting mixture.

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