#210897 - 05/23/08 07:10 PM
Re: how close together?
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TomR
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I do mine 2 feet apart or more.
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#210899 - 05/23/08 07:17 PM
Re: how close together?
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dodge
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#211094 - 05/24/08 02:03 PM
Re: how close together?
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cricket
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wow! I've always put my tomatoes 18" apart. they've done ok, but you can't get around them very good.....or at all except down the rows. I wonder if region has anything to do with it?
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#211106 - 05/24/08 03:04 PM
Re: how close together?
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Kalar
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wow! I've always put my tomatoes 18" apart. they've done ok, but you can't get around them very good.....or at all except down the rows. I wonder if region has anything to do with it?
That's the thing. Plant them so you can manage them without a whole heapa trouble.
It's not always just about "how many tomatoes can I get." It's also "how much trouble do I want to make for myself?" LOL
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#211165 - 05/24/08 06:13 PM
Re: how close together?
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Tamara from Minnesota
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#211535 - 05/26/08 06:27 AM
Re: how close together?
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elkhwc
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I've tried everything from 24-48" during my 40 plus years of doing this. The greater the better really. This year I'm using around 36" for the cages plants and 40-42 for the sprawlers. Using 48" I wasn't going to get the number of plants in I wanted and didn't want to break out a new area this year. Maybe next. The main thing here is give enough room for good air circulation. Although mine grow together in the fall and seem to do ok. Earlier though I've noticed more disease problems if too close together. If the soil is amended well I've noticed little if any difference in production from 36" to 48". This would be my results in my garden. And many of the experiments I've read say the same. Now from 24" to 36" I noticed some per plant but if you consider by square footage would probably be about the same. You should be fine if you don't have a lot of still hot humid air then you might have some disease problems. You can always spray with something like Daconil. I have found it helps. Happy gardening. JD
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#211605 - 05/26/08 03:30 PM
Re: how close together?
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tamara
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I buy the tiny cherry tomatoe plants...that way I can space them 12 inches apart.
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#211989 - 05/28/08 06:37 AM
Re: how close together?
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Sorellina
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Ciao all-
I plant my tomatoes 2 ft. apart within the rows and 3 ft. apart between rows. I don't have much trouble with this method. Before I plant each season, Duane tills in about 6" of compost to the raised beds. I stake my plants and use cotton twine to manage them on the stakes. At peak growth, there's not much room between some varieties and plenty of room between others. I place soaker hoses throughout the raised beds and put 4" of straw on top of that to keep water from splashing from the soil up onto the leaves mostly when it rains, to keep the paths fairly dry and not overly compacted, to keep the moisture and warmth in, and to also choke the weeds down. Between the soil amendments and the watering/mulching method I use, I don't typically get tomato diseases in my garden, even despite our humid summers. I do get a fair amount of blossom drop when the temps reach 30C, but that's very difficult to do anything about. I still manage to get quite a substantial harvest despite this.
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#214006 - 06/05/08 08:13 PM
Re: how close together?
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Pinkhorseofcourse
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Well I tried to give everything much more room this year than I normally do, but I had 15 tomato plants, so I had to skimp a bit on the room. I think I have about 3 feet between each one, but I really wanted a bit more.. but I am sure they will be fine. My cucumbers got the most room with about 5 feet between each. I did three rows of cukes.. with the last row being 3 hills of seeds for the pickling cucumbers. :) And my pepper plants have the least room but I think they will be ok.
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#214033 - 06/06/08 04:01 AM
Re: how close together?
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tamara
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I used to plant the bush variety for pickling cucumbers. Made it so much easier.
I need to plant some of my veggie seeds today.
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#214106 - 06/06/08 11:34 AM
Re: how close together?
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JunieGirl
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I used to get my cherry tomatoes that way--from the previous years fallen tomatoes. If they are small enough you can still transplant them--they should grow nicely for you---all they may need is a bit of extra care.
Good luck!!
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#215888 - 06/14/08 01:58 PM
Re: how close together?
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Noman
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Rules are made to be broken. If you start weaving too tangled of a web you can always just cut the side shoots that tangle off. I don't have much room and usually go 18-24" myself.
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#218139 - 06/24/08 12:38 PM
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tamara
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Do you plant different kinds Julianna? I'm just in NB but we can't get the larger varieties to ripen on the vine...not enough time in our season.
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#218922 - 06/28/08 08:54 AM
Re: how close together?
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Sorellina
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Ciao all-
I grow tons of different kinds of tomatoes. In fact, the only repeats of all the in-ground plants are in that back row. I have 2 each of Opalka, Romeo, and Franchi Pear for my big red Italian paste row. I have dwarfs and determinates in containers out front, but only the dwarfs are repeats because they're part of a research project and I want as much genetic diversity as possible for the seeds I'll be saving. I've got one row of large heart-shaped tomatoes and one row of large beefsteaks, two rows of colourful (non-red) paste tomatoes, one row of salad/slicer tomatoes, one row of cherries, and one row of "weird shapes". You can see some of this diversity in size, shape, and colour in the thread about grow lists. I think I included a photo of a large basket on a very heavy harvest day.
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But since I just have the one row I guess it won't be so bad. I can get to them on either side. I'll try not to let this bother me anymore. LOL. 
But I wish they were further apart.
