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Brjet Pena of San Diego Seed Company is back and we're talking about some varieties that will work well for you in a balcony, in a patio situation, in an apartment situation, really anything that's a small space. And so this is something that I've talked about before

Bridgette where it's like what can you grow on balconies well most any plant can be

done but it really does come down to the cultivar the variety that you choose

right? Oh absolutely I mean you can have two different varieties of squash one

which will get huge and take over your whole balcony or patio and maybe give you one fruit and you can have the exact same one but a different variety that will stay nicely and neatly in a pot and give you lots of fruit.

So it really depends on the variety specifically

for how successful you are in a very small space.

Yeah, I'll say, so I went on this California Vegetable Trial Tour last summer

and I was at, I forgot the company I was at, but they were doing trials of patio-specific variety.

So they had this whole section just devoted to that

and they were even trialing, let's say a tomato

that was a patio style tomato, may have even had patio in the cultivar name, but they were doing it in a five gal, three gal, and even one gallon pot, and they'd actually grown it out to fruit.

And so you could see how the growing habit changed based on even just the size of the container but also even in a

five gallon container which is you could do tomatoes in that normally.

It was still a very compact variety, didn't take up a lot of space and it was just absolutely loaded with

fruit so obviously doing that versus doing you know some crazy indeterminate

air loom is going to be a better choice for a lot of these smaller space gardeners right?

Oh absolutely I mean even like let's just talk about tomatoes for a hot second

it's really important that people understand that there's two different

there's really three but we can we can break up tomatoes into two groups

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