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  • From: sora AT coldreams.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] container tomatoes
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:21:54 -0800 (PST)

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> Another friend of mine grows indeterminate tomatoes in
> containers in a greenhouse and ties them to strings and
> prunes them. He's British, and this is the way tomatoes are
> generally grown in the UK.
>
> -Just over the Canadian border north of me there are massive
tomato/English cucumber greenhouse operations that are all container
grown. They're using grow bags with pruned, staked, indeterminates.
The results are absolutely amazing. When I toured they had a 12'tall
tomato forest pumping out hundreds of pounds of ripe tomatoes in early
May...in Canada! There's actually quite a bit of info out there on
their method, including Canadian government pamphlets. Do a google
search for Alberta greenhouse tomatoes....




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