RE: veggie-digest Digest V100 #26
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- Subject: RE: veggie-digest Digest V100 #26
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- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:30:38 -0500
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Sorry, all. I sent this directly to Nan, but I can see the list needs a
stakeless tomato cage:
I live on an Indiana farm, and partial rolls of 4 ft. fence wire with the
wire spaced far enough apart to put my hand through, and bring out a good
sized tomato seem to be one of our crops.
Your local hardware store should have something like this, and be
willing to cut off enough to make cages. About 5 ft. of wire makes an ample
cage. Where the two ends come together, secure with wire or sturdy twine. If
you cut off the lowest horizontal wire, you can stab the verticals into the
ground, and it makes a very good cage.
The only better cages I have came with the last house I owned...same
idea, but the wire is at least 1/4 inch thick. These are rusty, but are
indestructible! However I would be unable to make new ones like these
myself. Fence wire is a good substitute, and free here at Fellowship Farm!
Carol
Indianapolis
PS
THE BEST tomato food I ever used was the winter I saved kitchen waste in two
covered buckets on the back porch. This was before I had goats, who now eat
all of my veggie trimmings. If you can keep the raccoons away, and if you
can stand the smell (the reason the buckets were covered), and if you can
stay in the house for a week after you feed this concoction to your tomatoes
(and you don't have any close neighbors), you may grow tomatoes as large as
the five pounders I grew that summer. They were incredibly delicious. Isn't
it amazing how nature turns putrid yuk into the pride of ten summers!!!
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