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Re: What do you like for tomatoes?

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This is a very creative solution.  It's probably too late for this year, 
but a tomato called "Climbing Trip-L-Crop" bears one lb. tomatoes 
abundantly, I'm told. I've not grown it myself.  Tomato Growers Supply says 
the vine will get 15 feet long in a season.  They apparently don't have a 
website, but toll free # is 1-888-478-7333.  Other seed companies carry it 
too, so you don't have to just make do with cherry tomatoes.  Margaret L


>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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