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

To: Tommaso who wrote (602)	5/31/1999 12:03:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

That is quite a story, but I think I need to hear from the neighbors before I believe in 12 foot tall tomato plants, Tommaso. I think the paper plates are an interesting idea.

To: Tommaso who wrote (602)	5/31/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 3496

Did you keep the paper plates clean and let them reflect sunlight up to the undersides of the leaves? I personally like to use leaves and grass clippings as mulch. I scrounge up bagged leaves from around the neighborhood each fall and let them sit in the compost pile and partially decay over winter. Then I gather grass clippings in the spring, but only from neighbors that I know aren't chemical users (and folks who put their grass clippings out as trash tend to be chemically dependent; I don't like herbicide residues in my tomato plants, nor am I or my beneficial insects fond of nerve toxins in my garden). I also avoid the first mowing, which tends to have too many weeds. As the mulch decays, I get a nice slow release of compost tea, which can't be beat to keep the soil fertile. Add more mulch when needed, to keep the hot sun off the soil.