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watering tomatoes wit
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says... LB Thoughts on this: LB 1. In a really hot climate, the water evaporates as fast as it drips out. LB 2. Tomatoes seem to benefit more from a deep watering that promotes deep LBroots. LB This provides mostly surface water and shallow roots. LB 3. If you're going out to the tomato plants to fill the plastic bottles, w LB not just water the tomatoes while you're there instead of filling bottles? LB LBI've always put large coffee cans around my tomatoes as soon as I plant LBthem. The cans are buried in the ground a couple of inches. This not LBonly seems to prevent cutworms but makes watering simple - just fill the LBcans. Had very little blossom end rot. LBThis year I tried without the cans. About the same amount of water, at LBleast I thought so, but I got much more BER. I think the cans LBconcentrate the water in a small area so it goes much deeper. I use cut out gallon jugs similarly with equal results for several years now in suburban Boston,MA. I think it also concentrates the application of fertilizer to the plants (and limits it to producing more weeds). Ciao, Ack. --- þ SLMR 2.1a þ You are jealous because the voices only talk to me. FamilyNet Internet Gated Mail http://www.fmlynet.org |
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