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Re: Fw: [TomatoFanatics] : Sq Ft gardening

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In a message dated 1/29/01 11:07:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
bmissen@telusplanet.net writes:

<< 
 Dear Friends- I tried to defend sqfting on a tomato-growing list I recently 
joined. Did I miss anything important? lol!!
 
 bill missen.
  >>

Bill, SqFt gardening is difficult to "sell" to tomato growers per se, 
however,  I grew more tomato plants and more tomatoes with much greater ease 
and much less work when I grew them in raised SqFt beds.  The sun warmed the 
soil quicker so the tomato plants were happier, it took less water to keep 
them properly hydrated, the weeding was so very much easier since the foliage 
shaded the ground and that in itself provided living mulch, the few weeds I 
did pull were much easier to pull because of the lightness of the soil, one 
person can adequately care for about four times as many tomato plants and 
still still maintain a large selection of other food crops as well.  When 
planning where to put my new SqFt beds my first thoughts are of what is best 
for my tomatoes, all other food crops take a back seat to my tomatoes, since 
they are my first loves in gardening.  I grew well over 120 tomato plants 
last year in my unraised SqFt beds and I gave them approximate ly 4 sq ft 
each, that is one tomato plant every two feet up one side and offsetting the 
plants on the other side one foot at two foot intervals.  I plan on doing 
them pretty much the same way again this year only I plan on twice as many 
plants and I rarely weed except to harvest the weeds to eat.  I leave the 
dandelions, chickweed, clover, plantain and gill-over-ground as living mulch 
and only weed out the thistles.  The above mentioned weeds can be eaten or 
used medicinally so they are left. 

Lisa-- stepping quietly off her soapbox now.
Toledo ( 46.4400°N, 122.8460°W)
Hardiness Zone 7
Heat Zone 4
5861.66 Miles to go


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