• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    19 days ago

    Tomatoes are one of the easiest plants to grow. Even on an apartment patio. You can do it in a Home Depot bucket just punch some holes in the bottom.

    Cherry tomatoes especially pay for themselves. I would not recommend heirloom cherry tomatoes, they tend to be smaller. In some cases, hybridization is a good thing.

    Recommend Cherokee Purple as your general tomato. The flavor is much better than anything out of a grocery store. Pure tomato. It’s so delicious you can eat it like an apple.

    Very forgiving plant for gardening nooba.

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      The flavor is much better than anything out of a grocery store.

      Honestly, unless you live in a climate where they just don’t grow, grow your own tomatoes.

      Even in the north of England, I grow tomatoes in pots and they taste like I’ve just flown them in from Greece

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      I literally have 4 plants growing outside right now in a tiny patch. And 5 extra in cups inside I’m trying to give away.

      All started from a pack of seeds from the dollar tree.

      They just need a lot of sun.

      Grow like weeds.

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        Deer can technically jump a 6ft fence but the only time I’ve seen it happen is when someone forgot to close the gate. The deer was chased out and panic jumped the 6ft fence. Generally, they’re out there all the time and haven’t jumped the fence to get in and we even have Apple trees.

        I don’t think a roll of 4ft wire fence with T-posts would work.

        Either way, fencing gets pricy.

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    Omg. And they’re from the Americas…

    This is like rice becoming expensive somewhere in Asia-Pacfic.

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    19 days ago

    Maybe I should have savored the tomato I flicked out of my taco supreme at lunch…

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    our WF stopped selling organic jalapeno recently because somewhere along the chain it got jacked up in price, so they sell the cheaper non-organic versions.