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Stake or no stake tomato
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:21:12 -0400, Pat Meadows
wrote: On 8 Sep 2003 08:11:50 -0700, (James) wrote: I grew a few tomatoes without stake or cage this year. Seems like it's a better method. You get a lot more tomatoes because the stems root themselves on the ground and multi-stems also increases the number of fruits. So is the one stem on a stake method just a waste of time? No. It's appropriate when you want to save space, or if you have trouble with tomatoes rotting on the ground, or being eaten by slugs, or contracting various diseases because they've been lying on the ground. I haven't used this method myself, I've always used cages. But we will - hopefully - be building a hoophouse soon and I'll definitely stake and prune the tomatoes that I grow in the hoophouse, for space-conserving reasons. Pat Please...what's a "Hoophouse"? Thank You. Jerry Shirley, Long island, NY |
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