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  • From: "Shawnee Flowerfarmer" <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
  • To: Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] staking eggplant & tomatillos
  • Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:19:56 -0500

I grow the big fat Italian eggplant and find that it needs staking as the fruit grows to prevent splitting branches and dragging fruit.  A big windstorm can knock them flat.

all of the tomatillo varieties are rangey; yields are much better if you can cage them somehow.  I grow Cisneros tomatillos....plant is at least five feet tall with fruit the size of baseballs.  I keep them tied to a fence with a 4 X 4 grid and sometimes that is not enough support....but the yields are amazing.  (some annoyance with cucurlios and hornworms )
 
Shawnee, zone 5 mostly





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