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02 Oct 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

google it

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26 Sep 18, Darren (Australia - arid climate)

Obviously weather will be a factor, but I've been told by other Melbourne growers after Melbourne Cup for tomatoes.

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22 Sep 18, Andrew (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I am looking for a hybrid tree tomato Variety that can be planted outside in A Tasmanian spring/summer.

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03 Oct 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Look on the internet.

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13 Sep 18, robyn mee (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

please advise growing tomatoes in a garden bed with sun in afternoon and not much sun in morning when best time to water when to put stakes in to hold and what pressure to i put on the ties we also have a lot of different wild life birds from our back yard as we live on the back of a reserve protected how to keep insects away and some of the birds how far apart should i plant them and what can i plant with them eg. carrots ect any help would be helpful. i live on the gold coast currumbin on Simpson road

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14 Sep 18, Mike (Australia - temperate climate)

I suggest you find a place with sun all day. You are really just wasting your time if you don't. Then google how to grow tomatoes. Water in the morning or at the base of the plants. Put stake in when you plant. Put the tie around the plant and cross it over and then around the stake and tie it off - have it a bit loose - a few inches. Plant them about 60cm apart and in rows 90cm apart. Don't plant anything near them (that is close to them). the shade from the tomatoes will stop the other plants from growing strong. Plant tall things near each other and small things near each other. Read up as much as you can about growing them. When they are about .5m high give them a good side dressing of fertiliser and put some mulch all around the plants .3m diameter.

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19 Aug 18, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hello. On Saturday I had a nice round red tomato. I thought, 'I'll pick that tomorrow,' and promptly forgot about it. Last night (Sunday) I was out late after dark checking my vege gardens. I remembered the tomato and lo and behold, you guessed it - Gone! Who or what could have relieve me of my tomato? The garden in question is fully fenced. About 4' high or so. Thank you in advance, Jane :(

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25 Aug 19, Jason (Australia - temperate climate)

Could be birds. Do you get bower birds in your area? They are very clever and will even eat chillies. We had an area fenced all around with stiff plastic mesh and fine bird netting on top, but something was still getting in and eating our chillies. I caught a bower bird in the act, it had managed to get through a small hole half way up the bird netting, and I watched it fly up and easily scramble out the hole again. I couldn't believe it. Apparently birds don't feel the chillie heat like humans do. It could also be possums, ring tails are expecially naughty and almost silent. They eat the rinds entirely off our lemons and for years we couldn't figure out what was leaving "nude" lemons hanging in our tree, until we caught a pair of them eating fruit in our grapefruit tree, and the tiny bite marks were the same. For the lemons and grapefruit we can't do much except pick them all as soon as they seem ready enough. For veggies we usually have to build fort knox around them with fine veggie netting, which seems to keep *most* birds, possums, moths/grubs and snails out.

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20 Aug 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Sounds like someone took it. Should have picked it Sat - they will ripen up inside once they start showing some colour.

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31 Aug 18, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Mike, yes. That's what I thought... I took yr advice and pick them as soon as I see them start to ripen now. (Can they be picked green to ripen indoors?)

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