Transplanting tomatoes by the Roses Polytunnel Snails GIO Landscapes

1 year ago
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Strawberries, tomatoes and roses are great and huge. The polytunnel humidity is helping a lot.
The Watermelon sprouts didn't quite grow, as they have probably dried out. So, I will have to try again next year.
After growing from seeds and planting the sprouts of tomatoes, they are huge. So, transplanting and splitting them just into individual plants in each location. I've planted the tomatoes at the front (sun facing) of the roses that would give them or at least their roots and soil around their roots, semi shade, so not too much sun through the day as they would just dry out too much if on their own and not have much fruit. Need more sunlight for plant's photosynthesis, reactions and growth, whilst the transparent plastic is keeping in moisture or higher humidity, so tomato fruit won't dry out and crack from full sun.
That's why if appropriate, it's good to plant the garden area thick, for better moisture retention in the soil from shade of close by plants. But not too close so they don't interfere with each other. In my garden the tomatoes will grow up the bamboo stems around the rose, which I think is basically at the limit of how close the plants can be to each other without having a detrimental effect on each other, but instead symbiotic, or helpful to each other.
After planting, I have sprinkled the dry Pampas grass trimmings around the tomatoes and strawberries as an organic and non toxic pesticide slug and snail repellent in an environmentally friendly manner, as an alternative to slug pellets or salt. Otherwise the slugs and snail would eat the tomato plants and the strawberries. It's also good to have the strawberries fruit resting on woodchips or straw so they don't rot on the ground or get eaten by earwigs and other little insects on the ground.
Then watered the established strawberries and the newly replanted huge tomato plants. I've used the hose and luckily we don't have the hose pipe ban for conservation of water at the moment yet. Would have been better to use water out of a rain water butt, but at this flat the gutters from the roof are not accessible to connect a rain water butt.
The soil is great as the plant leaves decompose each year and feed the soil, so no need for fertiliser, but just water.
I wanted to be friendlier to slugs and snails lately, instead of squashing or throwing them viciously as I did before and other people do or slug pellets that kill them, as they eat my nice plants, fruit and veg, because I've made a deal with God about less evil and violence in the world. Also with Mr Putin's Russian forces attacking Ukraine and committing all of those terrible and violent atrocities and riots and other violence around the world. I was feeling guilty about purposely and viciously killing slugs and snails as I did before and had to stop. I now also feel a bit guilty when I accidentally step on a snail and squash it, which probably hurts it.
Kind regards, Ilia Gofman
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