Plant care
This may help people when they have to string plants by themselves.
Lift the plant to the desired height.
Grab the plant with your pinky, ring, and middle finger and hold it.
Grab your drop string with other hand, stretch it down tight, and feed it too your thumb and index finger, which are not holding the plant.
Take a clip in your free hand and insert the tight rope into the teeth and slightly close the clip, this will hold it snug on the rope. You want to place it under a large sturdy leaf around the stalk, that is the second highest place on the plant where you would place a clip. Your next clip will attach above it, the string will be tight now and you can place the second clip easily. Doing it this way makes it much easier by yourself.
The other pic is a spot where I found some mold. Get a wet cloth and remove the mold without poofing it all over the place. Next you want to scrape and cut away all of the damaged stalk, it will heal right up.
Here are a few more pics of production. Early Girl is the perfect round fruits. Chapman is the green tomato truss, Crnkovoc Yugoslavian has ribbed pink beefsteaks in the truss, the others are crosses we made and are stabilizing.
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