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Re: Fw: [TomatoFanatics] : Sq Ft gardening

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Lisa - What the HECK do you do with all those tomatoes?!!!!!!!_Teri
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: 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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