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Re: Tomato cages/transplanting & drip systems

I use milk cartons. They are deep and provide a lot of root area. When
ready to plant in soil, slit opposite corners with a knife. Plant them
out any time that you feel that you have the desired root depth.

oldjohn@juno.com
John Orwick
El Monte, CA

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997 23:39:52 -0800 Ian & Laurie Stoba
<stoba@EARTHLINK.NET> writes:

>And also on tomatoes- I think I made a bit of an error while potting
>up.  I
>went from my EPS starts, straight into 3 and a half inch sqaure sturdy
>peat
>pots.  I expect to be able to pop them out and reuse the pots (on the
>advice of the nursery woman that I bought them from who claims they
>last
>forever and she does this all the time).  Anyway, I find that I'd like
>to
>pot them up again before transplanting outside, but I don't really
>want to
>go to larger containers, and I doubt that they've rooted out enough to
>have
>used up the space in these pots.  But I'd like to bury more stem and
>go for
>stronger roots, etc.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  This may be a
>ridiculous idea, but could I repot them in the same pots somehow,
>moving
>them lower into the dirt this time?  I'm also not sure when to put
>these
>guys outside.  We don't HAVE frost for the most part, so last frost
>dates
>don't mean much.  How warm and how much sun will they want in order to
>do
>well?  Our days are ranging 60's-70's now, and nights are lowish 50's
>(I'm
>guessing).
>
>Regards,
>
>Laurie
>San Francisco (zone 10)
>
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