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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be Routcline passes our man in the garden.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, any, very good morning to you, doctor Taime

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Speaker 1: that you've had troubles with your tomatoes.

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Speaker 2: I know, well, I don't know troubles. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if I've had troubles. I just had, do you know.

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Speaker 2: I actually think I've had the best season I've had

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Speaker 2: with my tomatoes at the family home. No, I've had

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Speaker 2: a really good season because I just grew cherry tomatoes.

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Speaker 2: I got kind of, to be honest, I got sick

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Speaker 2: of the chunkier tomato varietals because I was just kind

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Speaker 2: of having issues with them. And then they'd be really

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Speaker 2: I'd get the kind of the central fleshiness, but they'd

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Speaker 2: be like overly fleshy, whereas that whereas the cherry tomatoes

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Speaker 2: are quite they've been quite sweet, they've been abundant, but

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Speaker 2: they're done.

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Speaker 1: Funny that because you know, we've had a very creepy

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Speaker 1: summery if you like, I mean even in Auckland. Ay,

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Speaker 1: it's just ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, And there's and we were

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Speaker 1: making it even more difficult. We had to buy build

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Speaker 1: a new tunnel house from Mourrayfield Greenhouses and in Vergago,

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Speaker 1: and that was done just literally after Christmas. Now can

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Speaker 1: you imagine I had nowhere to put any tomatoes at all,

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Speaker 1: and just had about four of these things, So five

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Speaker 1: of these things waiting for the tunnel house to be

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Speaker 1: put up, and suddenly I started working. How do you

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Speaker 1: do that so quick? Because it's well beyond the normal time,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Of course, so I thought. And so the

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Speaker 1: last thing you said last week was yeah, the tomatoes

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Speaker 1: are finished, and I thought, no, blow it. We can

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Speaker 1: do better than that. So here are the stories of

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Speaker 1: how to keep your your tomatoes going. Get yourself a greenhouse.

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Speaker 1: Where's the wall? You know it is a bit warmer,

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Speaker 1: to be quite honest, but it was still rotten here

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Speaker 1: in Christ's. Okay, here comes to thing. You need to

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Speaker 1: put the tomato in a really nice warm area, which

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Speaker 1: is what I did in the new greenhouse. Six hours

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Speaker 1: or more of sun is important, so that probably seven

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Speaker 1: or eight would be even better. Now you take off

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Speaker 1: this is important. You take the laterals off at the bottom,

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Speaker 1: which are all the little bits of beasts that grow

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Speaker 1: up which are not going to give you any fruit

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Speaker 1: at all. But also at ground level, you've got to

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Speaker 1: take those little things out of there, because you need

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Speaker 1: a lot of decent air flow there to stop everybody

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Speaker 1: getting stroubles, you know. Number Three, you use the best

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Speaker 1: soil that you can get to put around your main plant,

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Speaker 1: because even your plant could have actually gone a bit longer,

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Speaker 1: I would say, and the roots go down better than

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Speaker 1: and they are much more resilient as well. Finally, you

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Speaker 1: get no, not finally, almost finally you get rid of

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Speaker 1: the yellow leaves. Did you get yellow leaves on your plants?

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Speaker 2: Only a couple, not too many? Yeah, okay, yeah I

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Speaker 2: want to okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, secretars, get them off, forget about them. You don't

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Speaker 1: need them, all right, And then here comes the watering regime.

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Speaker 1: And this is probably mostly important. Your water once a week,

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Speaker 1: every ten days maybe decent watering really lots, put a

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Speaker 1: bit of Nitroposca blue in there. But every other day

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Speaker 1: you'll follow it up with regular use of what I

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Speaker 1: call liquid fertilizer. And my favorite one for tomatoes is

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Speaker 1: seaweed tea from wet and forget so every two days, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because that actually makes the flowers come. And then the

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Speaker 1: fruit set as well, and if you do that on

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Speaker 1: a regular two day basis, you'll find the devil work.

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Speaker 1: And ten days later again big lot of water again

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Speaker 1: to really make it noist and moist and all that

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Once you do that, fertilizer are you giving in?

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Speaker 1: I put a little bit of nitrofosca blue in the

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Speaker 1: root zone. But what I give them is seaweed tea,

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Speaker 1: which is something that you can mix with water in

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Speaker 1: your watering and literally you don't just water it a

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Speaker 1: little bit, you also fertilize it at the same time,

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Speaker 1: and then the plant opens everything it has and guess what,

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Speaker 1: even Jack Dane will have still tomatoes at this time

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Speaker 1: of the year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, very good, because I'll tell you what. The cucumber

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Speaker 2: is still absolutely gunning it, crushing it at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for that. Okay, Well, look, each year

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Speaker 2: if we just aimed to improve slightly on the year before,

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Speaker 2: so you know, I know you do.

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Speaker 1: That's why I want to keep you going.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Thanks road climb passing the garden for us.

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Speaker 2: We'll wait for those tips and that's seaweed tea are

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