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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] tomato blight
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:49:38 -0400

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:30:39 -0500, you wrote:

>And, along with the harvesting, tying tomatoes up also spreads disease. We
>have found that tomatoes in cages last a LOT longer than tomatoes in Florida
>weave. It still takes 2 or 3 plantings for us to have tomatoes until frost
>(typically mid-late October) in our hot, humid conditions.

I have not made succession plantings of tomatoes (nor is our
season as long as yours), but I'm going to do it next year.
It's certainly worth a try. Thanks.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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