RE: FW: Gardening 2001 - now sq foot ?'s
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- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:10:59 -0500
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13 squares = 25" (not 35") TYPO. MISPRINT, sorry.
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From: Mark [k*@adelphia.net]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:01 AM
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
Subject: RE: FW: Gardening 2001 - now sq foot ?'s
I like using the string method for indeterminate tomatoes. It is easy to
do but of course you must keep an eye on it every couple days to wind
the plant around the string---or is it the string around the plant? You
must however have something overhead to tie to, like a pipe or conduit
though it can probably be made of wood also.
Also, a lower maintainance way(lower maint after it's all together) is
using concrete reinforcing wire from a 5 ft tall roll, you can calculate
the amount needed using pi times the diameter (3.141 x diameter =
circumference) The mesh is somewhere around 6 or 7" squares, great for
reaching your hand thru & pickin that Giant Belgium or Orange Strawberry
Tomato. If the squares are 6", 9 squares long = 54" from the roll = 17"
diameter cage (10 squares = 19", 11 sq = 21" 12 = approx 23", 13 = about
35" diameter, and so on...)
