Mark Hutton: Hi, I'm Mark Hutton, University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable specialist.

馬克-哈頓。嗨，我是馬克・哈頓， 緬因大學合作推廣蔬菜專家。

Today we're going to talk about staking individual tomato plants.

今天我們'要講的是番茄個體植株的分株。

Now, this is something that many home gardeners will do. We're going to prune our plants to

現在，這是許多家庭園丁會做的事情。我們將修剪我們的植物，以

a single stem by removing the suckers. And you might ask, what are the suckers? The suckers

去掉吸盤，就成了單根莖。你可能會問，吸盤是什麼？吸盤

are these branches that come off the main stem. The main stem is the part of the plant

是這些從主幹上脫落的枝條。主莖是植物的一部分

that has most of the fruit clusters. You'll see that they will sometimes have a fruit

的，有大部分的果實簇。你'會看到，他們有時會有一個果實的

cluster, but it's much weaker than the main stem.

群，但它'比主幹弱得多。

The fruit quality that you get off of these suckers just isn't going to be as good. So

你從這些吸盤上得到的水果品質就不會那麼好。所以

you're better off, if you can, if you have the time or the inclination, to remove these.

你&#39；你最好，如果可以，如果你有時間或傾向，刪除這些。

This one is a little bit too big to snap off, so I'm going to cut it. Very simply, you don't

這個有點大，扣不下來，所以我'要把它剪掉。很簡單，你不'。

want to damage the plant when you pull these off.

想要破壞植物時，你拉這些關閉。

So how are we going to tie these to our stakes? Well, you can see here, I'm using strips of

那麼，我們如何將這些綁在我們的樁子上？好了，你可以看到這裡，我'使用條狀的

rags. It's a soft cloth. We don't want to use string. This is an old tee shirt. It's

碎布。這是一個軟布。我們不想用繩子。這是一件舊T恤。這是一箇舊的T恤。

a little bit stretchy.

有點彈性。

Other things that work really well are old nylons or pantyhose, because they're not going

其他的東西，工作真的很好是舊尼龍或連褲襪，因為他們';不打算

to rot. What you want to stay away from is some sort of string that may eventually cut

腐爛。你要遠離的是某種可能最終會割斷的繩索

the plant.

該廠。

When we tie the plant, we're going to take our tie around the plant, make a small loop

當我們綁植物的時候，我們要拿著我們的領帶繞著植物，做一個小圈圈

in it before we tie it to our stake. And we can just simply tie it off any way we want.

在我們把它綁在木樁上之前，我們可以簡單地把它綁起來而且我們可以簡單地把它綁在任何我們想要的地方。

Now, that loop is to keep it from sliding up and down on the stem and abrading the step.

現在，那個環是為了防止它在莖上上下滑動，磨壞臺階。

We don't want to tie it too tight. We want to tie it just tight enough, so that it stays

我們不想把它綁得太緊。我們想把它綁得足夠緊，這樣它就會保持在...

up against the stake.

對著木樁。

So staking individual tomato plants is something that you're going to want to do just with

所以單獨的西紅柿植株打樁是你要做的事情'只是與

the indeterminate varieties of tomatoes, so the beefsteak types of tomatoes. It's a little

番茄的不確定品種，所以牛排類型的番茄。這是一個小

bit labor-intensive to do it with the wild growing, small cherry tomatoes, things like

野外生長的小櫻桃西紅柿這樣的東西，做起來有點費力。

that. And for the determinate or bush plants, this isn't going to be a very effective way

那。而對於決明子或灌木植物來說，這不會是一個非常有效的方法。

to stake them.

樁他們。

If you just have a few plants, this is a perfectly acceptable way to go. If you're growing more

如果你只是有一些植物，這是一個完全可以接受的方式。如果你'種植更多

tomato plants, it would suggest that perhaps you look at using the basket weave or the

番茄植株，這將建議，也許你可以看看使用籃子編織或。

trellising, cable trellis system.

棚架、電纜棚架系統。

Here we've got another plant, another stem that we should tie up. So we're just going

在這裡，我們已經得到了另一個植物，另一個莖，我們應該綁起來。所以，我們只是去

to do that before we move on. Notice we make a little twist and then just simply tie our

在我們繼續前進之前，要做到這一點。請注意，我們做了一個小轉折，然後只是簡單地將我們的。

section of rag off.

一段抹布脫落。

When we're going through pruning, tying or trellising our tomato plants, we want to try

當我們'通過修剪、捆綁或棚架我們的番茄植物時，我們想試試

and be sure to leave as much foliage on the plant as we can to protect the fruit from

並且一定要儘可能多地在植株上留下葉子，以保護果實不受傷害

sunburning. You see here, we've got some fairly nice leaf cover over that fruit. That's going

晒傷。你看這裡，我們已經得到了一些相當不錯的葉子覆蓋在水果。這將是

to help keep it shaded and keep it from getting sunburned.

來幫助它遮擋，防止它被晒傷。

As we start to work up the plant and the fruits start to mature, and we're harvesting further

當我們開始工作的植物和果實開始成熟，我們'收穫進一步。

and further up the plant, we can start removing or de-leafing those lower leaves, anything

再往上走，我們就可以開始摘掉或去掉那些較低的葉子，任何東西

below the last ripening fruit cluster.

最後成熟的果實簇下面。

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