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Re: Dot's on transplanting tomatoes

At 12:39 PM 2/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>your situation.  Romas are Indeterminate tomatoes-they have shorter vines
>that stop growing when they set fruit- and are better choices for container
>growing than Indeterminate Tomatoes that keep growing and growing and keep
>setting fruit until frost or ?  because the size of the determinate plant is
>easier to control.  With good soil and water and sun and plenty of room for
>the roots, roma can still get big enough to need staked.   IMHO, roma is a

Romas are determinate--slip of finger?

I've used 56" tall tomato cages for Romas, and the Romas still outgrow them.
I don't know how this compares to other determinates, because all my other
tomatoes have been indeterminates.

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