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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (574)	5/17/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: somethingwicked	Respond to of 3496

Croc, I have found that the best way to grow/obtain tomatoes is off the shelf at Safeway. I prefer the red kind. Greener the gardener

To: Crocodile who wrote (574)	5/17/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: somethingwicked	Respond to of 3496

This is a Red Hot thread you got here. Sure hope you have time to read my posts. Maybe I should talk about peppers to spice up this place.

To: Crocodile who wrote (574)	5/27/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Hi Croc, I am going to plant tomatoes this week and have never done it here in Northern Virginia. My back yard is sloped, there is a creek a few hundred feet to the north, and I don't know whether I should terrace the spot that I intend to plant the tomatoes in. I have been collecting compost for quite a while, the pile is very large, maybe 4 ft. in every dimension (it's in a wire mesh cage open on top). I guess I should terrace the spot because otherwise all my compost will get washed down into the creek when it rains. I like the spot because it gets the most sunlight of any place in my back yard, eastern sun and overhead. I have seen raised beds made out of boards at places like Jamestown, the gardeners drove poles (maybe 2x2) into the ground at the corners and spaced along the sides, and then put in 1x12s inside the poles and used that to hold up the soil in a raised bed. This seems to me to be the most cost-effective, which matters to me because we rent. I had been hoping to buy a house, but we have put three offers on houses and not gone through with the contracts for different reasons. Otherwise, I could plant in the front yard, actually along the south side, which is flat, and gets more sun in the afternoon, so then the question is, which is better if you don't have full sun, eastern, overhead, or western. Hoping you know the answers.