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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] broken tomato plants
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 06:50:57 -0400
Advice please. I remember why I did not put down landscape
cloth in the hoophouse last year. I did this year to reduce disease, but the
little stakes didn’t hold well in the hoophouse soil and I have a couple
of dozen plants broken off at the soil line. Of course most of these are expensive
greenhouse types, but a few Big Beef also broke. So, do I let them put out a
sucker and train it, or replant with the leftover plants that weren’t as
nice? Bottom suckers tend to not have good attachment, but when they are the
only lead maybe they are better? The “good” plants, like those that
broke, are setting first flowers. In some cases I could just let a sucker (I
think I pruned most of the suckers off through the one below first flower
already) grow on a neighboring plant, where there is a neighboring plant (or
move plants around to spread them out) and go with two leaders, or plant the
leftovers that are not nearly as vigorous. Let’s see that is 4 options so
far:
5th option, fill in with some absolutely
phenomenal Rose heirloom plants, but that will make data collection more
difficult and I really want to keep some records to base future planting
decisions on. Thank you. Beth Spaugh Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured
chicken, duck, and geese "How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how
the world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy
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[Market-farming] broken tomato plants,
Beth Spaugh, 05/09/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] broken tomato plants, Elaine Granata, 05/09/2009
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