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  • From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Tomato Support?
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:58:40 -0500


Hi John! For market farming, I don't think this is off topic--if it is then
lots of us are in the wrong place! ; }

I don't think hog panels can be rolled up-ours can't. We use them for
various needs, hadn't really thought of using them to stake tomatoes. Great
idea. Farmers around here use fencing with 4x4 or 6x6 holes on each side of
a tomato row. They then insert stakes, horizontally near the plants,
resting them in the holes for the plants to use as support. Callaway
Gardens, last year, trialed growing tomatoes on twine similar to beans.
I've thought about trying this, but I don't have the time to train the
plants up the twine. In the past, I've let them sprawl, and after 6
encounters last year with black widow spiders who love sprawling tomatoes,
I've got to do something different. The hog panels sound interesting.
I've resisted using the popular concrete reinforcing wire as it is so rusty
even before you buy it!

Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville, North Carolina







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