FDR wrote:
"cloud dreamer" wrote in message
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FDR wrote:



A book that I have suggests that you not move tomato plants. Other
vegetables should be rotated.


What's the name of the book?

Everything I've read and all my experiences say otherwise.

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Readers Digest Organic Gardening for the 21'st Century, John Fedor, c2001,

page 79: Non-Rotating beds: Berries, Asparagus, Tomatoes, Sunchokes

p. 81: Tomatoes are narcississtic and do not like to rotate.




He'd be wrong. Maybe wilt and blight isn't a problem in his corner of
the world but to offer such blanket advice is irresponsible. If you lose
a crop to wilt or blight one year and replant in the same spot the
following year, they will contract the disease again. (Assuming no
precautions - which are never 100% and usually not worth the work when
it's only a matter of rotating the plant)

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One of many sites on tomato diseases. This one is in the area of the
O.P.

http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC2217.htm

Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) can be grown on almost any
moderately well-drained soil type. A good supply of organic matter can
increase yield and reduce production problems. Tomatoes and related
vegetables, such as potatoes, peppers and eggplants, should not be
planted on the same land more than once in three years. Ideally, any
cover crop or crop preceding tomatoes should be members of the grass
family. Corn, an excellent rotation crop with tomatoes, supplies large
amounts of organic matter and does not promote the growth of disease
organisms that attack tomatoes. Certified seeds and plants are
recommended and should be used whenever possible.

"James" wrote:
One of many sites on tomato diseases. This one is in the area of
the http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC2217.htm

Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) can be grown on almost
any moderately well-drained soil type. A good supply of organic
matter can increase yield and reduce production problems.
Tomatoes and related vegetables, such as potatoes, peppers and
eggplants, should not be planted on the same land more than once
in three years.

Ideally, any cover crop or crop preceding tomatoes should be
members of the grass family. Corn, an excellent rotation crop with
tomatoes, supplies large amounts of organic matter and does not
promote the growth of disease organisms that attack tomatoes.
Certified seeds and plants are recommended and should be used
whenever possible.

I've read that the corn ear worm and the boll worm attack both
tomatoes and corn and that they shouldn't be planted as companion
plants. Don't know much about these corn ear worms and boll
worms myself. Just have read it in a couple different places, including
the George Washington Carver document...
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/p...vertomato.html

Also, I've got some tomatoes interplanted with a serrano pepper
plant and both the pepper plant and the tomato plant (cherry tomatoes)
are doing pretty well.

Also, peppers come in a great variety and they live for years, I asked
last year how long belle peppers lived and someone indicated 10 years
and longer, so I'm not sure about the statement to NOT interplant
with peppers. I've read in a couple other places though, that eggplants
and potatoes never should be planted together (nor rotated with each
other).

I don't know much about it. I'm relaying this information back hoping
for comments either correcting, supporting or both. :-)

Jim Carlock
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