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Re: porous soil, p.s.

You may want to try my very successful experiment. Move a couple of your
buckets indoors each night and back to the garden each day. It's a bit of
work but you will be the first in your area to have ripe tomatoes. By
keeping the nighttime temperature above 55 deg. F you will get a very
early fruit set. I have tomatoes turning pink already on the two pots I
move indoors but only a few pea sized fruit on the ones in the garden ,
all being transplanted on the same day.

oldjohn@juno.com
John Orwick
El Monte, CA

On Wed, 7 May 1997 12:39:01 -0700 Joyce Gerber <jgerber@TERMINUS.COM>
writes:
>Forgot to say in my last post that while I love the ease of working in
>the
>stuff,  I have *never* been able to manage keeping tomato plants
>evenly
>moist in Mel's ideal soil.  My plants do poorly, I get blossom end
>rot, and
>then the creeping black death hits'em.  So this year I finally gave up
>and
>put them in worm compost-filled 5-gallon white buckets (I have
>literally
>several hundred of them in our garage eaves, I'm an archaeologist and
>use
>them for hauling dirt.)  And hooray, the 'maters are doing soooooo
>well!
>It's a joy!  I water them once a week, mulch with cut grass from the
>lawn,
>and fertilize with - gasp - tomato spiles.  We'll see what happens
>when the
>fruit sets...
>
>Joyce
>
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