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  • From: "Dori Green" <dorigreen00 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: market-farming Staking Tomatoes
  • Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:36:27 -0500


The best success I ever had with tomatoes occurred the year I set up espaliers in raised beds. Finally this year I've got the help to do it again!

Here's how I did it -- steel posts every 8-10' with saplings wired like fence stringers at 12", 24", and 36". When some more support was needed, I did macrame with baling twine between the stringers. (This can also be a good way to create a temporary repair to a goat fence -- keeps them amused undoing it while you go get real repair materials.)

Sometimes it's good to have a hedgerow trying to take over the lower fields -- in fact, we're going sapling-hunting today! I'm also planting bamboo in the bog this year.

I don't do u-pick tomatoes here but I go to two places that do. One grows on black plastic on the ground, the other uses espaliers. I much prefer the latter even though the former is 20 miles closer. It's much easier picking, fruit is cleaner with less bug and rot damage.

I'm a nearly-professional environmental activist who needs a really good excuse to use extra gas. If _I'd_ choose one place over the other, I think that says something about the customer appeal of this method.

Dori Green
Ash Grove Community Farm & Center for Sustainable Living
Corning, NY
http://www.ic.org/agrove/index.htm

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  • Re: market-farming Staking Tomatoes, Dori Green, 02/23/2001

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