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Re: What do you like for tomatoes?

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> From: Anita Keller <annie_de@yahoo.com>
> > 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".
> 
> > 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!
> >
> Just a follow on comment to Anita post.  I do something
> quite similar.  I to had some old metal Ts, (30 feet apart)
> at the edge of my property.  I centered my garden under
> these old clothes lines posts and added some new
> (strong) metal cable clothes line.
> 
> However I wanted to trellis peas, beans, full size
> tomatoes.  With 30 feet of line to pull on no matter
> how tight I made it it was sure to be dragged down
> with all the veggies (if I was lucky).  So in the
> middle of each of my 8 long raised beds I sunk
> into the ground a cheap piece of thinwalled electrical
> conduit about 10 feet long.  I was able to go down
> the first 2 feet I double dug quite easily, but could
> only push about 6 inches to a foot into the hard clay
> below.  I then lashed the clothesline to this pole.
> 
> My circumstances that led me to do this.
> 1) Poles were allready there hence free
> 2) Replacement clothesline was cheap
> 3) ThinWall conduit is cheap and light and works
>      when used in this fashion
> 4) Those little cages don't well for vining plants
> 5) My garden gets pelted with occassional
>     strong winds  the large Steel T's support
>     ensures nothing blows over (except the
>     occassional tree)
> 6) I like "recycling" these old clothes line
>     supports, it beats having to cut them down.
> 
> Ron Souliere (lincoln nebraska) the onions I missed last
> year are a few inches tall.  5 weeks to last frost.
> 

   You must be in zone 5 also. Just what state I can't guess?  The
nearest town I have west of us that is listed in the zone map with it's
frost dates is Elmira.  That is about 60/80 miles west of me.  There
last frost date is 4/26.  I have my tomatoes already sprouted and to
tall but finished my scrap wood greenhouse today so they will be outside
tomorrow if it is warm enough.  If I replant them before they have first
real leaves will that be OK to plant them deeper.  Some of the first to
poke up are looking a little leggy already and I can't get them anymore
light which they are reaching for.  I do rotate them daily to keep them
as straight as possible.  They will be in deep shade a little past noon
so I may never have to open the greenhouse for ventilation.  Now if the
grandsons don't put something through it I will be OK.  I think I have
them convinced they will die.  Not really but they will be hurting.  All
parties involved will get one crack of my belt.  One is not beating
them.  I am trying to get them to turn their field 90o so they would not
be shooting towards it.  They are both into Lacrosse.  It will be first
and second year for them.  The youngest is only seven but tough.  Not
awfully strong but you don't need to be strong to hit hard with a 4 ft.
stick.
-- 
   Jim allAn            One family photo has been added.  3/8/01
   Zone 5              
   New York U.S.A.     
   200+ miles NW. of  
   New York city
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