[Community_garden] Cage them love apples!

[Lisa Dufresne]

One year I got lazy and my tomatoes fell over into a nice thick soft bed of 
hay (I mean a LOT of hay) and they were great. Messy, but great. Since I 
have 5x20 foot rows (french intensive method), I had this idea the end of 
last year to try  a combo platter attempt at keeping my tomatoes off the 
ground but yet let them ramble. I thought I'd take a 6 foot high roll of 
some kind of mesh, and lay it on the ground, plant in the holes, and then 
raise the whole shebang as the tomatoes grew until the mesh stood about a 
foot or so off the ground, and set on beams in my path or something to keep 
it up. I'm sure once I try it I'll find some issues, but I'll report  back 
on how well it works (or doesn't!). I'm in VT and we aren't planting for 
another few days (chance of frost tomorrow night and all...).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Hargesheimer" <minifarms at gmail.com>
To: "Fred Conrad" <fred.conrad at acfb.org>
Cc: "Scott Kuzio" <sekuzio at msn.com>; 
<community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>; "Mike McGrath" 
<MikeMcG at ptd.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Cage them love apples!


> Fred,
>
> Assuming the UM study is correct, why do we have a mindset that rejects 
> what
> is better?
>
> 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.
>>
>> I'm not recommending it, I'm just sharing.
>> fgc
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