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The Small Fry tomato is becoming popular
as a balcony plant. It bears a long crop of plum-size fruits on fairly
bushy plants which can be allowed to spill from elevated containers or
may be trained upright on stakes.
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This tomato crops well under cool
conditions, either early in the season or late, and often it will carry
through well into winter in frost-protected positions.
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Apollo is another prolific tomato
suitable for growing in containers. The fruits are medium to small, in
generous clusters. The plant grows to about 2 m.
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Tomatoes prefer a soil with plenty of
compost but which has not been heavily limed within recent months. Feed
either with tomato food, complete plant food or specially prepared
soluble vegetable food. Some of the other soluble foods contain high
proportions of nitrogen and because of this they produce lush bushes
but little fruit.
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Plant pills or Osmocote are also suitable
when the plants are in containers.
Fruit fly baits give control of this pest without any need for recourse
to poisonous sprays. Use tomato dust for other insect and fungus pests
on the plant. For taller tomatoes it is often easier to have the pots
against some type of trellising or support rather than trying to stake
the individual pots. It is also worth running a wire through each pot
to tie to the support so that it is not moved accidentally after the
plant has been tied.
I have also used several bucket-size pots or oil drums ganged together
in a banana case with stakes or trellising nailed to the back.
Golden Nugget pumpkin is the newest development in vegetables for many
years and looks like making pumpkins a more popular crop than ever.
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