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  • From: "Biz Storms" <biz.storms@sympatico.ca>
  • To: "'Ontario Fruit Explorers'" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [OFEX] Fw: tomatoes
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:12:17 -0400

From John a few weeks back:

I have been growing tomatoes, 2 per hole, 3 per hole and 4 per hole for many years. My mother supplies copious quantities of the seedlings and rather than cull, I insert all. She normally has 3 or 4 seedlings in each styrofoam cup - depending on how many seeds germinate. I grow my tomatoes like a hedge, and usually have more than I can use. (except for cool summers!) I used to be meticulous, trimming off suckers and just allowing 2-3 major stems to be dominant. Now I am older, and lazier. I put a tomatoe cage over each cluster - this supports the 'in-line hedge' - and let them grow as they deem fit!

Hi Guys - back to some tomato questions.

John – what size tomato cage do you use? I mean approximate diameter. We have extra fencing, so was thinking about cutting a ten or twelve foot length and wrapping it into a circle. Also, when your tomatoes are grouped, do they vary in size from cherry up to large beefcake, or are they all a similar size. Would like to avoid having the aggressive plums or cherries that take 60 to 70 days before exploding, choke out the larger, slowing growing paste or beefcakes that take 80 to 90 days. But it would still be gorgeous to see them all mixed up.

Tom – rather than a pail, what do you think about recycling one of those large green plastic containers that the nurseries use for selling the larger shrubs? Could you use the side drainage holes – with careful expansion into the bottom – or would you cut new holes in the bottom, and block off the side holes? They are quite sturdy and new holes could be punched near the top to insert something for hanging. Just trying to avoid damaging a perfectly good pail or bucket.

Cheers, Bizmark

 

 

 

 




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