[Homestead] delurking: question re tomato cages and yacon

Rebecca Lewinski rebas_own at hotmail.com
Sun May 4 12:45:16 EDT 2008


Hello, all!
 
I haven't properly introduced myself since joining the list some months back, but here I am!  I'm Rebecca, our family of four lives in western Washington state about an hour north of Seattle (not quite empty nesters but it's getting close).  We've been sort of urban homesteading for the last two decades, but it fell by the wayside a few years ago due to various infirmities that needed fixing.  I don't always have time to go over the posts in this list, but I do try to scan for helpful bits that will allow me to garden again (anyone got a favorite site for info on building an "accesible" garden?  Thanks to modern medicine I can walk now.  I just can't bend over much, or lift much without putting myself out of commission).
 
Loved the ideas presented regarding the Tomato Ring!  Do you yacon growers think a person could plant a yacon in the middle of the tomato ring and not have the tomatoes and yacon take a dislike to each other?  I was going to do a compost/straw cage to grow yacon in this year, as I thought it would make the tubers really easy to harvest (never tried yacon before, got three starts in the mail this week).  Perhaps someone can recommend something other than tomatoes to train up over my yacon cages, or perhaps a different mix of growing medium in the cage?
 
gotta go pester Spouse to get the chicken wire down out of the shed so I can get my cages wired up and ready.
 
good to be here, I think I recognize some entities here from another list I used to be on... and.... back to lurking.
 
Rebecca in western Washington state
 
 
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