Its another beautiful week and I welcome you all to my blog. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their gardening activities.
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In this post, I like to share how I was able to stake the tomatoes in my garden.
Nature has a way of leaving us in awe with the way it works.
These tomatoes you see here grew out of sheer luck, I wasn't expecting them to grow.
I know you might be wondering what I meant, okay let me explain.
Some months ago, I bought some dry tomatoes to be used in making stew. Since they were dried, I soaked them for with salt to make them for use. After washing the tomatoes, I just poured the water in the available space in my garden. Note that the water already had salt in it so the possibility of the seeds germinating were very slim, so I thought.
After some days, I noticed that almost all the tomato seeds had germinated, ah! I was surprised and confused at the same time. How come they germinated when I thought that any seed or crop that had direct contact with salt will not germinate again, what happened with this one.
Well since I didn't find answers to my questions, I had to thank mother earth for this bundle of surprise. I was really happy that my garden will be producing tomatoes so it then became my everyday routine to check their growth.
Few weeks after, it was time for replanting which I equally did. Although the available space in my garden wasn't much but I was able to maximize it while transplanting the tomatoes.
As the tomatoes plant grew, some of them started bending due to the weight of the branches which were spreading and interlocking with each other so I knew it was time for staking.
I haven't grown tomatoes before neither have I staked any but I have been able to see a farm where tomatoes were staked so I devised a way to accomplish mine.
Materials I used for the staking
- Sticks which I cut from a nearby farmland.
- Some ropes from a rice bag to be used in tying the tomatoes to the sticks.
- Farm knife for digging holes.
Once my materials were ready, I proceeded with staking the tomatoes.
Firstly, I dug holes beside each of the tomatoes stand, fixed the sticks in them and covered up with enough soil so they stand firm.
Using the ropes, I tied each of the branches of the tomatoes to the stick.
I continued like that till I was able to stake all.
The outcome
While I was digging one of the holes, I dug these eggs out, since I didn't know which type of eggs they were, I put them back where I found them.
I'm sure someone of you may be asking what's so important about staking tomatoes or any other crop. Here's what I found out;
Staking crops like tomatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, vegetables etc. help to make them grow and blossom well in order to produce healthy fruits.
Staking also allows the proper penetration of sunlight into the crops which adds the needed nutrients for healthy growth.
For one who has limited space, just like mine, staking is a great way to utilize the space for optimum cultivation.
Crops that grow on stakes tend to yield more than those that were not staked.
My staking process may not be the perfect way but it was the least I could do as at then.
See the tomatoes, some started producing fruits already.
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