Re: compost, using the same plot over, etc.
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: compost, using the same plot over, etc.
- From: m* l*
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 09:53:51 -0600
Yes, it is okay to grow tomatoes in the same location year after year.They
form their own micorrhyzae, ready to assist the next year's tomatoes in
growing. This is true so long as you don't have any soil-borne disease show
up in your tomato patch. I've grown tomatoes in the same patch for 28
years, planted them elsewhere once and lost about 50% of the plants to
disease. The next year moved them back to the same old patch. I don't even
give them compost as a rule, just leaves rotting away on the surface. I do
rotate potatoes, eggplants and peppers, though. Margaret L
10:17 PM 4/30/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings: Our compost had been collecting since last fall, so I wanted
>to get the bottom part, which would be ready to use, out;
>
>I used to spread it over a grating, to get out any lumps, twigs, etc.,
>but it became dicey because there were a lot of earthworms in it that
>got squished;
>
>well yesterday's pile was just like a worm farm, thousands of them in
>there;
>
>I couldn't bear to kill them so I took the compost with them in it and
>placed it on the tomato garden plot; so it wasn't really as completely
>free of egg shells, rinds, etc., as in the past;
>
>I think it'll do fine out there in the sun, which should get everything
>breaking down even more, and now the worms will have burrowed into the
>ground there, making it rich with their castings, and loamy from their
>travelings.
>
>This is my question: does anyone know if it's okay to use the same plot
>year after year, for tomatoes mostly, if the soil is replenished with
>nutrients each year, from compost and aged manure?
>
>TIA
>
>Isabelle Hayes
>
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