New viewer here. Kenny sent me he from knuckledraggin
sent me here
He’s a good man that Kenny.
I think we are a lot alike in many ways.
Ya almost look alike… same backwoods Appalachia DNA so you are skinny as hell and are a survivor…
I’m skeptical, because that plant is root-bound.
Don’t be skeptical as even though that picture is old, it is truly one tomato tree that was grown in Epcot.There is a difference between a tomato plant and tomato tree.
Tomato plants are actually perennials and the way to accomplish what you see is to keep adding dirt up the stem as it grows and a tomato plant will continue to grow new roots. I grow a lot of tomatoes and thought about doing such a thing but I am in zone 6B so I could not grow it more than one season.
I like ‘maters, but not that damned much. Now, if somebody could grow a burrito tree, we be talkin’!
Looks like an ‘Italian Tree tomato’, I have some seeds on my desk because I intend to grow them next spring in 4CuFt feed/molasses buckets.
Also growing O.S.U Blue, and Amana Orange which produces well for my area of Texas.
Difference between determinent and indeterminent tomatoes. As long as there is dirt, sun, water and nutrients, they will keep going. My super sweet 100s and big boys took over the green house this season. 26 feet of plants on each and had to keep adding slings across the rafters.
When are the slack-arsed GM scientists going to invent a bacon plant? Cross it with celery or some other useless rabbit tucker. Then cross kale with pork rind. How come I gotta do the heavy thinking here? Back in ’63, I ate my first tomato, ripe off the vine on my aunt and uncle’s farm on the Barron River delta, I thought an angel had cried, it was that nice. They used to hand pick mature but green fruit, layer them with sawdust in a wooden crate and ship them to the U.K. They’d arrive in Liverpool weeks later in perfect nick, no dips, sprays or chemical poisons used.
Espalier. Done around the world for thousands of years. Gives you tons of good fruit.
I espaliered (sp) a couple of blackberry bushes and a pear tree after reading a book in high school about it. The black berries became much more easier to train so to speak and had less wild shoots and the berries were more plentiful. The pear and don’t remember the variety did well with abundant fruit.
New viewer here. Kenny sent me he from knuckledraggin
sent me here
He’s a good man that Kenny.
I think we are a lot alike in many ways.
Ya almost look alike… same backwoods Appalachia DNA so you are skinny as hell and are a survivor…
I’m skeptical, because that plant is root-bound.
Don’t be skeptical as even though that picture is old, it is truly one tomato tree that was grown in Epcot.There is a difference between a tomato plant and tomato tree.
Tomato plants are actually perennials and the way to accomplish what you see is to keep adding dirt up the stem as it grows and a tomato plant will continue to grow new roots. I grow a lot of tomatoes and thought about doing such a thing but I am in zone 6B so I could not grow it more than one season.
Here is a link for the picture. https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/gardening/news/a7476/disney-world-tomato-tree-record/
I like ‘maters, but not that damned much. Now, if somebody could grow a burrito tree, we be talkin’!
Looks like an ‘Italian Tree tomato’, I have some seeds on my desk because I intend to grow them next spring in 4CuFt feed/molasses buckets.
Also growing O.S.U Blue, and Amana Orange which produces well for my area of Texas.
Difference between determinent and indeterminent tomatoes. As long as there is dirt, sun, water and nutrients, they will keep going. My super sweet 100s and big boys took over the green house this season. 26 feet of plants on each and had to keep adding slings across the rafters.
When are the slack-arsed GM scientists going to invent a bacon plant? Cross it with celery or some other useless rabbit tucker. Then cross kale with pork rind. How come I gotta do the heavy thinking here? Back in ’63, I ate my first tomato, ripe off the vine on my aunt and uncle’s farm on the Barron River delta, I thought an angel had cried, it was that nice. They used to hand pick mature but green fruit, layer them with sawdust in a wooden crate and ship them to the U.K. They’d arrive in Liverpool weeks later in perfect nick, no dips, sprays or chemical poisons used.
Espalier. Done around the world for thousands of years. Gives you tons of good fruit.
I espaliered (sp) a couple of blackberry bushes and a pear tree after reading a book in high school about it. The black berries became much more easier to train so to speak and had less wild shoots and the berries were more plentiful. The pear and don’t remember the variety did well with abundant fruit.