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Re: Tomato question
At 12:14 PM 7/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I had a very bad experience last year when I tilted my cages to reclaim my
>"isle" in the tomato garden. After a drenching rain, everthing fell
>completely over in the direction I had tilted.
>If you have the space, you could Add some stakes (bending some of the
>branches to the "east and west" as Stan suggested) to lead the plants in
>another direction. I add additional stakes to support my pepper plants and
>it works quite well.
>Have you tried pruning some of the greenery to let some light/air in? I've
>done that before with no bad effects.
>Pat
>
I was not being facetious when I asked what made you think tomatoes had to
have sun to turn red. My tomato patch is quite dense, with 60 plants
planted 3 feet apart, yet tomatoes ripen, even in the midst of the patch.
In autumn, when I pick green tomatoes, they ripen in the basement. No sun.
If you let in too much light, you risk sunscald, which is one of my pet
peeves.
BTW, pepper plants are very brittle. I use those cheap 3-ring tomato cages
to protect my pepper plants, and don't have to worry about staking or the
dog breaking off a large branch. Most years I can get them two for $1.
they last for years, but do eventually break. Margaret
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