Re: was Planting depth



On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:28:39 +0000 (GMT) Allan Day
<allan@crwys.demon.co.uk> writes:

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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
>-- 
>
>Allan Day  Hereford  allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
Well, Allan, and Shelton, I've been gone for a couple of days and just
now
got a chance to read my mail.  What a mess.  At first I just
naturally figured that my brain was just messed up, but I now
see that it was one of  these computer thingies.  
     As far as the deep or sideways planting techniques, I am
beginning to think that the ability of the tomato plant is more a
survival technique than a fast growth technique.  It probably is
going to grow at the same rate regardless of how much of the
stem is buried.  That's my theory and I'm sticking with it!  
     As far as a spoof is concerned, I am a member of GCFL. (Good
Clean Fun List)
Kind of a joke of the day list.  I believe on April 1st, they asked
everyone to check their dictionaries to see if the word "gullible"
was left out by mistake and to respond to the list.  Apparently 
1.5% of the list fell for it.  (No, not me. And, hey, I wouldn't admit
to it even if I had fallen for it)
Stan            the cheap and lazy gardener
                    Boulder Co.     Zone 6


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