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RE: Gardening: Stringing the Cherry Tomato Varieties up to the Trellis

in #gardening6 years ago

Interesting. I have never heard of indeterminate/determinate growth before, mind you i am not green-fingered at all....
So i take it that the determinate grow plants will have bigger tomatoes? Based on the fact that at a certain point the energy will go into the fruit? or am i barking up the wrong tree?
Looks like a good project you have there!
Are you using rain water to water them with too?

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I think most of the cherry tomato varieties grow in a vine - inderminate. The cherry tomatoes are smaller, but more of them grow. Great size for salads - a specialty market - cherry tomatoes can be sold for more money. You would get more tomato volume from growing a larger tomato variety like beefsteak - or even roma - they would be a better choice if the tomatoes were for slicing or making sauce :)

Great info, thanks man