Starting to shape up a bit now.. I'm also looking into buying a 3x6m grow tunnel, ant advice on grow tunnels appreciated:-)

What are everyone's thoughts on the best way to stake and prune tomatoes ? I get the feeling that some you tube videos are a bit gimmicky, in regard to single stem vines growing 10 feet tall and needing a small scissor lift to harvest? Maybe double leaders perhaps? Also I've cut some great sturdy 6-8ft bamboo stakes.. Just wondering how close to push them into the plant.. probably just beside the current root ball ??? This is my first real effort trying hard.. my first attempt sprawled all over the ground, had the wettest summer on record then got hammered by Cyclone Gabrielle.. My soil is so dead, not a worm to be found, but I refuse to use chemical fertilisers.. I'm going to top dress with an organic fertiliser and some more decent compost soon..

Here it is my pitted plants for the challenge. I haven't seen many updates lately! Don't be shy shy all you are doing so you truly learn quickly m Remember when we make mistakes we learn too!

So as you guys know I started some tomatoes a couple of months ago and they didn't work I they died ,we have started again, today I have the day off, so I've done my first 90 seedlings for my tomato chili challenge. It looks like a lot but one of these trays is going to my mother-in-law's house I didn't actually get to plant out all of the varieties yet because there's 10 plants of each within those trays so I still need to do some succession planting with the rest of the varieties and try those maybe next month. In here I have money maker, Roma, banana legs, sugar lump, blue Gold, I snuck some extra luffas in here.. And for the chilies I have planted siam, Thai and fire and ice. Varieties that I still have to plant in January/February...principe Borghese, yellow tommy toe, Amish paste, gold nugget, beefsteak, yellow stuffer and brown Berry

So the first five tomato plants that I put out have actually died between the hail stones and the heat.... So guess who's going to start all over again. I think it was a mix of they weren't big enough to handle it they were only 30 days old and we went between big heat days and Hailstone /storm day. I have been a little distracted with my health and some other things that have been going on so I haven't actually started the next lot of seedlings yet. But I will get there