Re: Fw: [TomatoFanatics] : Sq Ft gardening

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David- Welcome to the list. I tried tomatoes for the first time last year, using 1 foot spacings. Although frost killed the tomatoes before I could get a crop, they seemed to grow just fine. I think it has to do with your soil quality, manure/compost added, and I suspect soil depth may have a more significant impact than I thought before. (Are you going to use Mel's trench method of preparing for tomatoes?) Recently a fellow gardener shared the following with me:
 
    "Byron- Your friend from Oregon has 32 inches of tilth(soil depth) and says it improved his veggetables over his previous 24 inches of soil.  I wonder what would be the optimum depth of our garden soils? I mean how deep would should we go?"
 
I have approximately 16-18 inches of improved garden soil before I hit heavy clay. I hope to improve that over the next three years.
 
Anyone else care to share your opinion?
bill missen.
 
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From: K*@aol.com
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Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [TomatoFanatics] : Sq Ft gardening

Hello.  I'm new here.  I started square foot gardening last summer(half way
thru) and I'm crazy with gardening fever.  I have (2) 4x4 beds

Will it be ok for me to plant my tomatoes with 1 foot spacing.  I'm planning
on following Mel's suggestion to limit my plants to 1 main vine.  I going to
devote 4 squares to tomatoes--2 brandywines, 1 early girl, 1 sungold.  The
other 4 vertical squares will be for snap peas and pole beans.  I don't know
how much harvest I will get out of 2 squares of Peas and 2 squares of pole
beans, each square with 8 plants of each.  

Enlighten me with your expertise.  

Thanks,

David  (sorry don't know how to post my own thread)

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