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  • From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: tomato training and sunflowers
  • Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:18:05 -0400


Regarding training tomatoes to run up sunflowers...PLEASE rethink this!
Have you ever noticed that under your bird feeders, the only thing that will
sprout and grow are the sunflower seeds? Sunflowers have the same component
as black walnut trees, (jugulon - sp?) and few things compete with them.

I keep sunflowers as far away from everything else as I possible can. I'm
no chemist, but this sounds too risky to me, if you want to get tomatoes!


Jean brings up an excellent point. I know tomatoes and black walnut trees do not mix-it seems tomatoes are one of the most sensitive veggie crops to jugalone.

If you are really enamored with this idea why not try a few tomatoes and see how it goes. if it works than you have a neat technique, if it fails all you have lost is a few tomato plants and not your main crop.

Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Organics
http://www.boulderbelt.com
New Paris, OH







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