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Can I put netting around a single tomato?

9 years ago

First time growing a single tomato plant in years - after giving up because my last one produced two fruits, only to have some animal pick off the second one just before I was ready to pick it myself (grr). I'm in San Jose, CA and temps are mostly upper 80's and will be getting/staying in the low 90's for at least the next week.

So this one (Cherokee Purple) has two fruits on it, and one is just starting to color up. So now I'm starting to panic that it'll disappear on me one fine morning.

I have one of those delicates laundry bags that I was thinking of using over this one that's close to ripening. Is that OK, and do I need to worry about the leaves touching the plant and rotting? I just NEED to have this fruit come to "fruition" because if I don't get to taste it, I might never be motivated again to put in the effort of home growing tomatoes.

The laundry bag is probably cotton or nylon. I thought I had saved one of those plastic net pouches (like what kid's sand toys come in), that I cant find, but will look a little harder for if a non-cloth net would be better.

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