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Transcript: Fall Tomato Revival
By the end of summer, our tomato patch is usually pretty ragged-looking due to the ravages of insects, mites, and diseases. It’s also stopped setting fruit due to the heat of summer. However, fall is coming and we have a fairly decent fall tomato season here in Texas. You can revive your old patch; there’s no reason to buy new plants. In fact, you can get a head start by simply tip layering your old plants. And here’s how.You want to take a section of vine, remove the leaves from it, and then dig a little hole in the ground and bury that tip section of vine. It doesn’t have to be very deep, just a few inches deep is enough.
Place the vine in the trench and cover it with soil. Then water that spot. Tomatoes love to root along the vine and, within a couple of weeks, you’ll start to have roots already growing into the ground. And this new daughter plant or baby plant is ready to go.
At that point you just cut it loose from the mother plant, and then remove the mother plant along with all the mites and diseased leaves and everything, and this is your new star, rooted and ready to go for fall.
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July 6, 2006