09-26-2014, 08:41 PM
Sorry for the slow response but I forgot about this thread until I finally started making salsa today.
So to answer your questions,"do yours have a high trellis that they climb on or do they free-stand 7 feet?" Yes, I have been using a 6 ft tall dog run fence for years.
"Do you use in your tomatoes?" Yes, I use fertilizer but this location where I now have my garden is new, I have planted in this new location for the past four years but the tomato plants have grown the same height each year no matter how I fertilizer them. The first two years I did not use more than Miracle-Gro once or twice the whole season but the last two years I have been hauling in truck loads of cow manure but this is spread out over the entire length of the garden and my garden is 28 yds by 10 yds and yes that is yds not ft. So I do not consider what fertilizer I put on my garden as being heavily fertilized. The third year of this new garden I used one truck load, this year I put on two truck loads but my truck is only a ford ranger, so it is less than a 1/2 ton in size.
I like some of your methods of gardening and will be adding them next year, like piling grass clipping around the base of the plants and adding a drip irrigation system. Thanks for the ideas Ralph.
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So to answer your questions,"do yours have a high trellis that they climb on or do they free-stand 7 feet?" Yes, I have been using a 6 ft tall dog run fence for years.
"Do you use in your tomatoes?" Yes, I use fertilizer but this location where I now have my garden is new, I have planted in this new location for the past four years but the tomato plants have grown the same height each year no matter how I fertilizer them. The first two years I did not use more than Miracle-Gro once or twice the whole season but the last two years I have been hauling in truck loads of cow manure but this is spread out over the entire length of the garden and my garden is 28 yds by 10 yds and yes that is yds not ft. So I do not consider what fertilizer I put on my garden as being heavily fertilized. The third year of this new garden I used one truck load, this year I put on two truck loads but my truck is only a ford ranger, so it is less than a 1/2 ton in size.
I like some of your methods of gardening and will be adding them next year, like piling grass clipping around the base of the plants and adding a drip irrigation system. Thanks for the ideas Ralph.
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