I am running into some difficulty with tomatoes using the concreteblock
method.
I suspect tomatoes only really do great when their stem and branches can
touch the ground and throw out more roots. Rather than be staked upright.
If they do
best by running along the ground rather than staked then the concreteblock
method is not amenable because the plant has too far to reach to get the
main
stem to the ground. So far my experience has been that tomatoes do best
when
they run along the ground making a larger root system.

Anyone have counter experience? The drawback to not staking is that many
fruits are touching the ground and susceptible to spoilage.

Archimedes Plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Potatoes and corn do really well in concreteblock method. I suppose the block

give added support to the corn plant in that none of mine were blown over
in a recent storm compared to the no block method.

But I am having difficulty with tomatoes in that tomatoes want to get on the
ground and sucker root to explosive growth but in the process of finding the
ground the block will tend to damage the main stem. So I am forced to
stake my tomatoes. I guess I spoke too early to another poster who
recommended staking. In the concrete block method I am forced to stake
or lose nearly all the tomatoes.

Cucumbers are doing excellent in the concreteblock method in that the
hole is extra good for watering in that I can fill the hole with water and
it slowly seeps into the ground. And I have staked the cucumbers with
a row of fencing for them to climb on. One row of cucumbers I put
a wound bundle of fencing to lie on the ground next to the cucumbers
so that they just climb over the top of the fencing.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Potatoes and corn do really well in concreteblock method. I suppose the block

give added support to the corn plant in that none of mine were blown over
in a recent storm compared to the no block method.

But I am having difficulty with tomatoes in that tomatoes want to get on the
ground and sucker root to explosive growth but in the process of finding the
ground the block will tend to damage the main stem. So I am forced to
stake my tomatoes. I guess I spoke too early to another poster who
recommended staking. In the concrete block method I am forced to stake
or lose nearly all the tomatoes.

Cucumbers are doing excellent in the concreteblock method in that the
hole is extra good for watering in that I can fill the hole with water and
it slowly seeps into the ground. And I have staked the cucumbers with
a row of fencing for them to climb on. One row of cucumbers I put
a wound bundle of fencing to lie on the ground next to the cucumbers
so that they just climb over the top of the fencing.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

In article ,
Archimedes Plutonium NOdtgEMAIL wrote:
Potatoes and corn do really well in concreteblock method. I suppose the block

Have you thought about how you are going to harvest your potatoes?

Beverly Erlebacher wrote:

In article ,
Archimedes Plutonium NOdtgEMAIL wrote:
Potatoes and corn do really well in concreteblock method. I suppose the block

Have you thought about how you are going to harvest your potatoes?

What kind of question is that? Lift up the block; set it aside and dig
where the potato was.