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Re: What do you like for tomatoes?

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Thanks...I'll have to look into it.

But really, I WANTED cherry tomatoes...I LOVE them!  Actually had to fight
my fiancé for the seeds...LOL  (He hates them!)

Annie

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From: "Margaret Lauterbach" <mlaute@micron.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: 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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