[Community_garden] Cage them love apples!

[Fred Conrad]

Mike, I remember a study done by the University of Maryland some many
several (25?) years ago that showed they actually got better yield from
tomatoes that ran amok and rooted in all over the place. So the
increased output apparently made up for slug and rot damage.

I'm not recommending it, I'm just sharing.
fgc 

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From: community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org
[mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of
Mike McGrath
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 12:12 PM
To: Scott Kuzio; community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Subject: [Community_garden] Cage them love apples!

Scott--they cannot be left to sprawl or you will lose everything to
slugs and rot. Stakes are the minimum but it gets hard to keep tying the
growing plants to the stakes without damaging them.
    Ideally tomatoes should be staked AND caged (with the stakes
supporting big rings of animal fencing); if you have too many plants for
that you can use the 'stake and weave' method, but picking gets hard.

Read some of the tomato growing "Questions of the Week" in this archive
of "Previous Questions of the Week" from my Public Radio show, where our
alphabetical order listing makes it easy to find the topics you need!

All the best, Mike McG/ You Bet Your Garden



 PS: Don't plant running bamboo! Its The Borg!

Read the bamboo Q as well....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Kuzio" <sekuzio at msn.com>
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:53 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] ***SPAM*** Where to find stakes for tomatoes


> This is the first year for our community garden. Do you need to stake 
> tomatoes and other vine type plants? If so has anyone one found a
place to 
> get stakes cheap or another way to do this. I was thinking of growing
so 
> bamboo but we need stake now.
>
> Scott
> Williamsport,PA
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