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

To: Ilaine who wrote (603)	5/31/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Well, you have to keep pinching out the suckers and keep to a single main stem to get to twelve feet--and you have to keep tying the plant up. I only did it that way at that time because I had an area of about eight feet by two feet in which to grow tomatoes. Normally my tomatoes only make it about five feet off the ground, and only if I am very conscientious. Sometimes I just let the whole patch go wild. If no one has mentioned it, one thing that's very important in the Eastern Piedmont clay soils is to add lots of lime every year. That prevents blossom end rot. You can even add lime after the problem develops and cure it. Just the cheapest ground limestone is fine.