Re: Planting depth

how will you remember which one is which?

When your tomatoes get leggy, no problem, because when you transplant
tomatoes it's better to take off the bottom two or three sets of leaves and
plant the entire stem into the ground. I've even made a trench and laid the
entire plant on its side and covered up all but the top set of leaves. It
then makes roots all along the stem and that makes for stronger and
healthier plants. It takes a bit longer to take off (puts its energy into
root formation for a week or so), but then boy howdy!

Denise McCann Beck
Coastal British Columbia
USDA zone 7 Sunset Zone 4


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-----Original Message-----
From: pattie@juno.com <pattie@juno.com>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 2:50 PM
Subject: Planting depth


>The directions on the tomato seed packet says to plant the 
>seed 1/4 inch deep.  I wonder how much difference this makes?
>Well, I am going to find out.  I just planted my tomato seeds
>today in my starter "pots"  Today is four weeks before the last average
>frost for
>my area.  Usually when the seed packet says to start the seed
>four to six weeks early indoors, I figure that means six weeks.  
>And six weeds is just about the same as eight weeks and 
>eight  weeks or ten weeks probably is the same.  ( I don't
>supply my seeds with a calander so how would they know?)
>     Anyway, they always get too big and leggy and with the winds
>we get here in the spring, they always get blown over.  So this
>year I held off.  This is really tough to do.  Patience is not my
>strong point.  
>     Anyway, I planted three seeds in each 3 inch pot.  One was 
>planted at 1/4 inch depth.  Another was planted at one inch depth, 
>and the last one I planted at two inches deep.  I only plan on
>keeping one plant in each pot anyway, so what the heck.
>     I will keep you posted as to what happens. Today is April 10th.
>Stan            the cheap and lazy gardener
>                    Boulder Co.     Zone 6
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