Re: was Planting depth

On Wed 14 Apr, pattie@juno.com wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 04:59:43 +0000 (GMT) Allan Day
> <allan@crwys.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > On Mon 12 Apr, pattie@juno.com wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you for giving me credit for having half a brain.  Allan 
> >didn't
> >> give me credit because he knows me better.  (People turn to Allan 
> >for
> >> help, not to me).
> >Stan, you are the one that does the lateral thinking that starts the
> >subjects off. The person that does not make mistakes never makes
> >anything.
> > To go back into history, slugs and copper tape and all that.
> >Go to a handicraft supplier that sells self adhesive copper tape in
> >various widths for stained glass work and what they call 'tiffany 
> >lamps'. I am still negotiating purchase of some tape this end.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>snip>>>>>>>>>>
> Cool Allan.  Stained glass greenhouses that are slug proof! ;-)
> Since I don't have slugs here, I won't be doing the experiment
> with the copper tape but will really be looking forward to your
> experiences.  
>      While I've got you here Allan.  Denise mentions in one
> of her posts about burying a tomato plant deep and covering
> up a large part of the stem which will turn to roots. I have done this
> in the past and even done the "laying down" trick.   Theoretically,
> this does sound like a good thing, but since it sounds so good
> I wonder if anyone has actually done a comparison to see if this
> really IS a good thing.  I have found out in life that sometimes things
> sound so good that they are never questioned and just taken as
> fact.  How would you suggest making a fair experiment?  (Just
> something to ponder when you've got extra time.)  
> Stan            the cheap and lazy gardener
>                     Boulder Co.     Zone 6
> 
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Nice to hear from you direct, Stan. Don't expect any contributions from
me on the list for a while, something/body keeps throwing them out but
I seem to get stuff in normally.This message was also sent to the list but didn't make it. Can you confirm that at present we still send to veggie-list@eskimo.com?
Regarding tomatoes rooting from the stems, my observation is that the
stems need next to no encouragement to throw out new roots which is to
the plant's benefit but may get in the way for the gardener. Some people
do wierdy things like laying the plant down and taking the sideshoots
up, you could get lots of new 'plants' this way but most of the fruit
would be too late forming to ripen in time. I have several times taken
cuttings of sideshoots, also rooted the tops of plants with stem rot,
dead easy to do but only valuable in emergency. Potatoes can also be
propogated this way. I don't know what you could prove with experiments,
maybe just a check of the USEABLE tomatoes would tell you something.
My tomato seedlings mostly turn out leggy so I pot them up to look the
right height and they seem to do well, that's about how far I go.
How do you manage to not have ANY slugs and still grow plants?
Between you and me I was thinking about a spoof message on April 1st to
the effect that somebody was crossing a potato, a tomato and a Swiss
Cheese plant for the manufacture of cheese flavoured potato crisps, but
I got cold feet on the idea at the last.
Allan
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Allan Day  Hereford  allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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