Propagating Tomato Plants From Cuttings

I have to give a hats off to Texasprepper2 on Youtube.  I never would have thought to try and root a tomato cutting this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWB7XiKuF0

I decided to snip a sucker that was about 10 inches long and try to root the cutting.  I placed it in water and in about a week you can now see the roots appearing out the stem.  Pretty Cool!

I wonder what else you can try and do this with?  I'll try some other plants as well.

Couldn't Resist: New potatoes for Dinner.

Pulled up one of the plants last night.  Just really curious!  Pulled off 3 nice young potatoes and added them to the beef stew.  The plant had another 6 very small potatoes on it, just too small to use.  But, a good sign of a big harvest to come.

UPDATE:  I was wondering if I might have left some in the dirt, so I dug down and found 3 more potatoes so 6 usable in total and 6 too small but that would have been 12 total on the plant.

Garden Update: Sucession garden growing fast.

Wanted to show the difference in two weeks that the 4x4 garden has experienced.  The left picture is from 5 April, the right picturer from 17 April.

 



5 April

17 April

 

You can see from the photo below, the vine is begining the end of late flowering.  Should have fruit soon.

 

 

 

The canopy really came in well with the major prunning I did.

 

 

I moved the tomato's over to the fence by the blueberries to regulate the sun a little bit.  As it gets hotter here in south Texas this will help with the afternoon strong heat.  One thing with the grow bags, I have to water every morning.  Really healthy plants, one Roma's has 26 tomato's growing now.

 

Blackberries are flowering now.

 

Three Sisters Garden (TSG): Corn update......Squash planted

Please comment or share, any dialogue is appreciated.

Just a quick update.  The corn is doing very well.  We'll see how it turns out.  The corn is on average about 2 inches tall.  I direct sowed 9 squash and 3 zucchini.  3 of the squash was butternut, 6 are crookneck, and the 3 zucchini are black beauty.

By the look of things, the pole beans will probably be direct sown next Saturday and that will complete my first three sisters garden.

The plan, as this huge amount of corn is ripe, is too obviously eat some with dinner but for the rest, I'm going to let it dry on the stalk and then store it whole.  The best stalk of corn I will save for seed next year.




I may have gotten a little overzealous with the two grow bags!

Part of the plan with this garden is to also minimize having to buy seeds year-after-year.  I also believe that genetically, the plants will adapt to the environment and be stronger in successive years.