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Re: peas and tomatoes

In a message dated 98-02-09 11:29:46 EST, you write:

> 
>  At 12:40 PM 2/8/98 -0800, Ian Stoba and Laurie Mandigo-Stoba wrote:
>  >How about peas and tomatoes?  Has anyone tried starting their tomato
>  >transplants right in front of the peas so they can be trained up the
>  >trellis, and take advantage of the nitrogen fixing in the soil?  One of
>  >rodale's OG books makes a suggestion about peas on the outside of tomato
>  >cages, and putting the tomatos in later, but for the life of me, I just
>  >couldn't figure out how you'd get the tomato IN the cage with the peas
>  >growing all around it.  Maybe I'm being dense;)
>  >
>  >Laurie
>  >San Francisco, zone 9
>  >
 Try planting the peas on only 3 sides of the cage..that's what we did on our
balcony..we had no trouble getting into the cage since we had left one side
open..this gave us access to fruit( and weeds) but still gave us plenty of
room for peas.  On our balcony we have 6 large rectangular planters that each
hold one square (1 1/2 ft) cage(for tomatoes) and leave about 10inches left
over at the side..for flowers/lettuce/herbs etc.  We also grew about 14 more
tomatoes(surrounded by petunias and marigolds) up in the main garden(apt.
complex community garden) we had them near the pea/bean trellises and they
started taking over by the end of July/August...the peas and beans didn't seem
to mind and just started climbing on the tomatoes.  In fact the shade from the
tomato plants helped protect the peas from the hot summer sun.
 Margaret//zone 6ish..Md/DC area
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