@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:21

Tomato Baby song

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Happy birthday Little babies Little tomato baby song day you will look just like me you'll be sliced up and eaten and pooped out but don't think about that now Just think about your infancy and enjoy your happy family Yeah

Yes, I sing to my vegetables #gardening

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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:15
Sir. Deborah, what does it take to grow good tomatoes? I'm going to go get my vegetable garden planted in the next week or so and I have no idea. I've never succeeded with tomatoes. So what does it take? Yeah
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:12

Water soil love

But I think you should just get five or six plants and plant them, I don't know, 2ft apart and water them every day and make sure they're in lots of sun and they'll talk to each other and they'll support each other. That's true. Tomato plants don't like to be alone. So put them next to each other about 2ft and they'll start shooting up because you're going to give them water every day
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:16
Depth I'm definitely going to do this sometime in the next couple of weeks and go get germinated plants. Plant them. I will call you to sing to them alright or play your Happy Birthday song to them. Then I'll keep you posted on this
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@barbarakb
Barbara KB
@barbarakb · 3:07

@sudha @DBPardes

Oh, take a look here at my tomato babies on the window sill, getting that Sunday sunny morning shine. Oh, this is a swell after my own heart. I'm finally back. Here a response. I listened to you both earlier today, and as I was missing these tomato plants, I thought I'd tomato seedlings. They're just seedlings. At this point, I thought I'd respond and say I, too am excited for that tomato. Hey, and sudo what I would recommend
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:59

@barbarakb @sudha @gardening

In fact, I'm learning all about flower vegetable combo, things where they just talk to each other better, even if it's a small plot. Just choose to have some nice little I don't know what was the one that someone told me about the little purple of flowers. I don't remember, but yeah, I love that we can support each other. I have a friend who's a master gardener, and I'm going to ask her to come on
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:13
Bhavra thank you so much for that. Okay. Cherry tomatoes, indeterminate that's the first one I'm getting. Thank you so much. So next week and off to the nursery, I'm gonna pot these, and then I'm going to send you guys photographs
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:28

https://s.swell.life/ST4PbqPwDrT9sJs

I also wanted to share this. It was just, you know, forwarded by someone to me today. It is so timely. Gardening is a natural antidepressant. Apparently the microbes Mycobacterium bacteria specifically found in the soil is a nature antidepressant and which is why gardening is actually good for mental health revenue. So here is that article if you're interested
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@barbarakb
Barbara KB
@barbarakb · 2:55

@sudha @DBPardes a pic of cooking up harvest from last year! 🍅

And for me, the main thing is I grow what I eat. I grow that I'm going to use. Yeah. Next, our conversation could be about herbs. That's another one. That's great. Okay. Peace out. Bye
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:49

@barbarakb

Is it too crazy to do? I just happen to have a pack with me. Yeah. And growing basil. I have basil, but it's about 2ft from my it's about 2ft from my first tomatoes. So I think I might have done it by accident. Anyway, here's that forget me not package. So we love your thoughts. Do start that's all about herbs, because I'll be there
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@barbarakb
Barbara KB
@barbarakb · 2:51

@DBPardes

So it does like a little bit of shade at times. But plant them now or in the next month or so in an area. Maybe it's an area that also has daylilies or some other flower that comes up later and they'll come up next spring, kind of later spring, like April, May again, depending on I'm not sure the timing of things probably a little bit earlier there in California, but great flower. Okay. And the herb thing
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:09
I'll let you guys know how it goes. It's going to be an interesting spring and summer. So how long does it take? Is it a good two to three months before I start to see something? I've never done tomatoes before. So I'm just wondering, of course, now I'm going to go do a lot of research on gardening. I think I have my hands full right now. But it's it was a lovely afternoon. The weather was perfect for planting
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:00

@sudha

Hey, Sudha, in my experience, it takes between, you know, 30 to 45 days for it to get to that place where it's going to start popping. And then outside of two months, you're producing, and it's a pretty long season. It's crazy, actually, because then you just think you're done and then you're not done. But there are so many variables here, so it's hard to say
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