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  • From: "Tom Anslow" <limerock AT thirdplanet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Staking Tomato's
  • Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:06:06 -0500


Do you ever tie any of the line stakes (every fourth one, etc.)?

How tight do you have the twine (loose, so-so, banjo string)?

Thanks. -- Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: Staking Tomato's


> You start by spacing tomato plants 18-24" appart in the row then put a
steak between every second plant, twine comes in 4 pound boxes that clip to
your belt, the pvc stick is a 12"-20" piece of 1/2" pvc pipe used as an
extension of your arm and as a tool to weave the twine around the stakes,
the twine comes out of the box thru your pvc pipe and is tied to the end row
stake then you walk down the row reeling out twine and looping it around
each stake until you come to the end of the row then walk up the other side
doing the same until you get back to the start, the plants stand suspended
between the twine, you dont ever tie the plants just the stakes and as the
plants get taller you go around again up to four times on determinate
plants...
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.
>
>





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