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Tomato answers (was re: tomato question)

>At 12:14 PM 7/22/98 -0400, Pat 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, everything fell
>>completely over in the direction I had tilted.

The day after I wrote my note I accidentally left the sprinkler on for 1 
1/2 hours...right next to my 'matoes. DUH!! They had been staked with 
long branches from our woods(obviously not well enough...), and all of 
them were prone. In a panic I raced in to rescue them and have one that's 
barely holding on. His base is split but bandaged together. Lookin' a 
little beat up, he is.

>Margaret Lauterbach tapped the keys thusly:
 
>I was not being facetious when I asked what made you think tomatoes had to
>have sun to turn red.  

O.K. I'll take your experienced word on it! I got square cages for my 
plants and there's about 6" between all plants, some more some less. And 
sure enough the ones in the densest part are the ones that have ripened! 
How 'bout that. I suppose the whole thing about photosynthesis was 
pounded into me at some point and i just ...assumed. But as I type, I'm 
picturing shade flowers and trees that do swell without any light at all.

Thanks to all that have helped with my questions. Hope your gardens are 
thriving!

M-DONNING A DUNCE CAP
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