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Re: starting out in the garden

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At 11:33 AM 8/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>Thanks for the words of encouragement!
>
>I just went through the program for Master Gardeners, I have always loved to
>garden...but mostly flowers.  I have planted my share of Tomatoes, but that
>is about it.
>
>Now I learned that if keep planting tomatoes in the same soil year after
>year, nematodes appear!  Ignorance is bliss.  I have grown wonderful
>tomatoes in the same soil for years...no problems.
>
>Now I am going to branch out and grow every kind of vegetable I can possibly
>grow in this area.  I am in zone 9 so there is allot I can grow.
>
>It is great to be able to talk to people who have the same interest in
>gardening.
>
>Thanks for the advice... Now I am going to go out and dig up the back yard.
>
>Peg
>
Growl, snarl...who told you that if you grow tomatoes in the same soil that
nematodes appear? Are the nematodes beneficial or malevolent? There's also
a story going around this year that growing tomatoes produces
tomato-beneficial mycorrhizae so next year you'll get an even better crop
of tomatoes. I've grown tomatoes in the same patch for nearly 30 years; one
year I was persuaded to "rotate crops" and I was very sorry I did. At that
time I lost 50% of my tomato plants to diseases, and the fruit was attacked
by tomato worms (the corn earworm kind). As long as there's no disease in
my tomato patch, I'll keep growing there. I am a Master Gardener (actually
Advanced MG for four years), and I am often embarrassed by some of the
misinformation MGs hand out. For example, "Where is the tulip seed?" or
"What kind of insecticide do you use for roly-polys? I don't see that name
on any insecticide label." or "Gourds differ from squash in that squash is
edible and gourds are not." And now you've added a new one: "Grow tomatoes
there long enough, and you'll get nematodes." Margaret L


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