The Tomato Project

The outdoor tests are finally reaching the picking stage

 

The meat tomato’s are rolling-in now:

 

WOW !! A perfect beauty !!!

Makes me want to grab a salt shaker just looking at it !!

 

Annie— I know, mate. I shall be using that for making concentrate, but at least one slice will not make the trip into the jar.

 

Going to begin organising the data today.

 

Found a article of saltine agriculture meeting tomatoes that grow wild in salt water and…
Read the article to find out more…
https://modernfarmer.com/2023/10/could-salt-water-be-the-solution-to-future-irrigation-woes/

 

I hope they can do that with potatoes. They'd come out of the ground pre-salted !!

 

These are the roots that were once the stems on budding new plantlets. They have put out lots of feeding roots and the root balls which were deeper, developed well to take up water.
I can say that all of the tomato plants cropped well this year.

This trial has now ended.

 

Sjoerd it’s been a long project to evaluate and interesting trial. I will miss your tom’s and reports . So what the heck was the findings for the trial?

 

Not guilty then

 

It certainly wasn't a mistrial !!

 

I do not know what tomato roots look like without nematode galls on them. Thanks for sharing!

 

Me too !!

 

After reading Sjoerd trials on Tom’s, I’ll never look at tomatoes the same again.