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Strategies & Market Trends : Taking Advantage of a Sharply Changing Environment

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To: 3bar who wrote (750)	7/30/2018 10:19:32 AM
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This year I took apart my first raised bed and added a 2x6 all around my two biggest beds (the soil was not deep enough for some roots systems to grow deep down). My garden is located on top of a hill (which was leveled off when my Dad built the house in 1966. While moving off the top soil, the subsoil was basically a gravel pit - full of baseball size rocks and gravel. So all of the soil in my garden beds were brought in by truck from when I was digging 4 feet down to make foundations at my old school house expansion. As it turns out it had a lot of clay in the soil. This year I added 2 bales of Spagnum Peat Moss, 6 50 pound bags of Black Cow (composted Manure) and 12-14 (40 pound bags of miracle grow garden soil. It probably cost me $200.00. This year everything is doing really well. In the past some veggies would really work and others not so much - so it was a good move. I spend quite a lot on seeds and potting soil - so soil upgrading is the next step to assuring a bountiful harvest. My secret to really tall tomatoes and very leafy plants is a fertilizer called Tomato Maker. I put it on 3 times. Once when transplanting (at about 15 inches tall - but I lay all of the plant sideways in the ground - leaving just the top leaves above the ground. I prune the buried leaves and they become roots. Then again at 15 inches above the ground, then the third when fruit begins to grow. screencast.com I have 60 plants so it is a lot of work. Typical year results in around 2000 tomatoes. The Early Girls go into my Salsa 70-80 quarts. The San Martinos and Marzano plum tomatoes are utilized in my wife's Italian seasoned tomato sauce, canned tomatoes and tomato juice for Bloody Mary's. It all adds up to a busy late September and October Bob

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