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

To: Tommaso who wrote (605)	5/31/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Well, I certainly have Eastern Piedmont clay soil. Yesterday, I took back the boards I was trying to make a raised bed with because I could not pound the 2x2 stakes into the ground to support the boards, the ground was just too hard. I bought 6x6x8ft squared off logs, and just lay them on the ground, 4 ft by 16 ft, and filled the space about 1/3 full of compost, and then topped it off with topsoil I bought at the hardware store. I then burrowed down to the grass below and set the tomato plants on the ground, and covered them up with the compost and potting soil, and patted firmly around the plant but did not compress it. And then watered everything. I have no idea whether this will work, but the alternative was to buy an auger and dig holes in the ground for the stakes. It has been drier than usual. I have not put any fertilizer or soil conditioner as yet, just wanted to get the plants in because it was so hot and they were dry. As it turned out, yesterday was the full moon, I don't know if that's good or bad according to the Farmer's Almanac. Anyway they looked chipper last night, and they looked chipper this morning, so, so far so good.