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Re: What do you like for tomatoes?

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I guess I have an unusual circumstance in regards to
tomato plants, but it has worked out well in my case. 
Just something to get you "thinking outside the box".

I wanted to plant vining tomato plants, but didn't
want to spend a lot of money and time making a
trellis-like structure (like in Mel's book).  Plus,
I'm renting this house and don't want to spend much
time and money creating things that I can't take with
me (I've done enough of that with my squares!)  

Then I noticed something...In my backyard, I have a
3-line clothesline with metal T's at each end to hold
up the lines.  With a little extra clothline and some
stakes, I could make a rope trellis for the tomatoes!

I drove in a stake below either end of the Tand placed
rope horizontally between them.  Then, I placed 3
vertical ropes at each site where I was planning on
planting the tomato plants, tying them to the bottom
horizontal rope and the top vertical bar of the T.  I
plan on placing horizontal ropes between these
vertical ropes if the plants need more support as they
grow.

This gave the plants a good but flexible support
system, in a VERY sunny place and with only a couple
dollars of material.  And when i leave the property in
a couple years, I can take it down.

Annie

I have planted 4 vining cherry tomato plants 


 
>  Dear Margaret L. and all other SQFT. Friends,  What
> do you like for tomatoes 
> if you don't think the three ring cages are good? 
> What is it you don't like? 
> I will be trellising some but some will go in cages.
>  I was going to buy some 
> square cages from Parks seed catalog that also has
> plastic type bags you can 
> purchase to put over the cages if you have an
> unexpected cold snap.  You can 
> also cut slits in them if you are worried about heat
> build up.  I was going 
> to get these because I read that tomatoes won't set
> if the night temperatures 
> are under 55 degrees or if it's very windy.  In my
> particular micro climate 
> in zone 8 I only have 2 months out of the year where
> the average night time 
> temperature is in the 50's.  Also, it can be very
> windy.  Now the days can go 
> up well into the 90's in mid summer, but the nights
> always cool down.  We 
> just started our garden and would welcome anyone's
> advise on this tomato 
> matter.  
> Also has anyone ever grown potato in containers.  I
> have seen so much 
> conflicting advise on the web.  How big was your
> container? What type of 
> spacing did you use? How many seed potatoes did you
> plant? How tall do you 
> need your container to be?
> Thanks in advance, Kimberly
> 
> 
>
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