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

To: Crocodile who wrote (578)	5/29/1999 1:21:00 AM
From: somethingwicked	Respond to of 3496

You ladies and gentlemen keep planting those t'matos cause I'm an enthusiastic consumer of that plant's juice: in bloody marys, that is. Let's have a moment of silence while we think of tomato and vodka.

To: Crocodile who wrote (578)	5/29/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Hi Croc, just got back from Merrifield Nursery, for heirlooms I bought all the Brandywines they had left (5), and then a couple of Germans, a Moskvitch, 2 Sweet 100s and a Sun Cherry, and then some hybrids, 2 Better Boys, and 2 Rutgers. And one anonymous, but it had such a nice, thick stem, as thick as my thumb, and lots of flowers, that I thought it deserved a home. Most of the plants I got have flowers, and are about eighteen inches tall, and a couple have tiny tomatoes on them. I don't know if it's good to transplant with flowers or bad, but this way I get a head start. Yeah, I know the select grade pine is fancy, but it's less fancy than number 2, and with the mileage my Rover gets, at some point saving money starts costing money, so I quit looking for lower grade. Actually, maybe I should have bought number 2, once this stuff gets wet it's going to cup like anything. It will serve the purpose, but I was planning on taking it down and putting in storage and reusing. What do you use for mulch? I was thinking black plastic, and then Gauguin suggested straw, and then I started thinking about fungus, wondering if straw would foster fungus.

To: Crocodile who wrote (578)	5/30/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3496

Once when I was renting I grew tomatoes just fine by digging holes about a foot deep and a foot wide (in clay soil of Piedmont North carolina), then put a handful of limestone and a handful of 10-10-10 at the bottom of the hole, replaced the sod upside down and put in the plants with a paper plate as mulch. They did so well (grew 12 feet tall) that by the end of the summer people were putting paper plates around the stems of their tomato plants all around the neighborhood.