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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Top Garden Crankers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jacques tomatoes are simply popping off this year. The lack of May Grey in San Diego, and his attentive care and fertilization helped. In this episode, Kevin and Jacques discuss their top crops this summer, and what they did to get them to crank.
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0:00.0

Every year in the garden some things do better, some things do worse, and you really don't know which it's going to be.

0:18.0

So this year for me, my absolute cranker, sticking to that terminology my best performer by far are my

0:26.6

tomatoes my tomatoes I don't even know what's going on like I pulled 26 pounds of

0:32.4

tomatoes yesterday

0:34.0

Just in a single round of harvesting one day and most of that came from like 10 plants

0:40.0

So very very heavy tomato yields. I could talk a little bit about why I think that is.

0:44.6

I would like to know. Okay. So, I will say, you're, I would say you're a better tomato grower than me, for sure.

0:52.3

It's definitely like, I want them more than

0:54.4

anything. So I have like a strong desire. I would say on average your tomatoes are

0:59.0

better than mine from a like health and performance perspective.

1:03.0

Maybe I got you on a couple of things.

1:05.0

Yeah. You definitely got me on tomatoes.

1:06.0

Almost every year I would say.

1:08.0

So what do you think is contributing to that?

1:11.0

Why my tomatoes are doing well, fertilating them.

1:14.0

And the other thing that's going for me this year

1:18.0

is that we had way less May gray.

1:20.0

So that was the factor out of my hands.

1:22.0

Is that we had more sun early on every year it's different

1:24.4

you never know what you're gonna get.

1:25.8

Less make great for me more June gloom to be honest with you.

1:29.0

And that works. So what I think I think I think your furtigation is probably something first of all I have an easy flow it's sitting in the shed and I have not installed it yet and I have

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