Those are beautiful tomatoes... but I agree, 5 hours to pick is insanity... and on your hands and knees to boot. Invest in a roll of concrete wire and make cages. You can get about 30 cages out of a 100' roll of wire if you make them 5 foot tall. you will get fewer cages if you make them 6 foot tall but it may be worth the difference when your cherry tomatoes grow over the tops of the cages and flop over.. In the Fall when you are cleaning up stack the cages on their sides in a pyramid with stakes at the end or a board in the bottom to keep them stable and stack them on ground cover, not on grass or bare dirt or you will have a jungle of weeds to get them out of when you are ready for them in the Spring if you don't.
In 5 hours I had better have bushels picked.
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carolyn k
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