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#99170 March 11th, 2007 at 11:52 PM
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Weezie,
Hope your season is starting great. Mine is coming along good now that the snow is gone. Tilled it again yesterday and done except for some light tilling and cultivating later. Have onions coming in this week and yesterday got a call and got a free load of grass clippings. They are cleaning the ball fields and I like I told you last year I get all I want. So will start mulching onions as soon as I get them in the ground. I worked at least 6" in last fall and the ground really looks great. Still haven't started that compost pile you suggested. Have a great 07 in the garden. Jay

#99171 March 12th, 2007 at 12:21 AM
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You can never have to much organic matter in the ground. I expanded my garden by 5' this year and added about 4" of mostly rotted wood chips to the new spot. It is nice and loose I will be planting tomatoes their this year, hope it will by a good year.

Where I added the really rotted chips last year I planted my tomatoes, I had more tomatoes last year than I could handle.

#99172 March 12th, 2007 at 12:33 AM
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Weezie,
Hope your season is starting great. Mine is coming along good now that the snow is gone. Tilled it again yesterday and done except for some light tilling and cultivating later.
Jay,
My season is still in WINTER!! wink laugh laugh

And the tomato cages' I have that I left out alllll winter shocked :rolleyes: eek are barely pokin' out from the top of the snow!!! :p

It'll be quite some time yet for me to even walk to my garden!!!

#99173 March 12th, 2007 at 12:36 AM
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Sarah,
Here's some Collaspable Tomato Cages...
Just an idea... but they ain't cheap!!!
**Know anyone that could fashion some of those?**

Here\'s some more foldable tomato cages...

Click here for some wooden one\'s... thumbup
*now these look really neat...

#99174 March 12th, 2007 at 11:30 AM
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I live in northern central Arkansas and am in zone 6. How can you be in zone 6 in Conneticut?
Monajean, many people don't realize that planting zones have nothing to do with high temperatures. thumbup

#99175 March 19th, 2007 at 02:03 PM
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Weezie, you are quite right--those aren't cheap! And with around 20 plants, that is crazy expensive. I wonder how sturdy those are--the wire doesn't look very strong.

I am still pondering over exactly where to put up the tomato trellis. I have a 20x15 foot garden and can't decide if I want the trellis to go North and south (20 feet) or east and west(15 feet). I'll probably plant upwards of 20 plants, maybe 25. Decisions, decisions.

#99176 March 19th, 2007 at 02:10 PM
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I had my husband take 2 x 4's and cut them length wise down the middle..
And pound them puppies in to the ground...

#99177 March 22nd, 2007 at 02:59 AM
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I too make mine out of wood. I use 1X6 cedar boards and cut them to size on my table saw. I have the same ones I have used for the past 5 years. After the season is over, I just take them apart and store them. Cedar is expensive but....the wood lasts a very long time.

#99178 March 22nd, 2007 at 11:50 AM
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Yeah, a couple of mine have broke off
on the bottom few inches *(from being left :rolleyes: shocked )*

#99179 March 22nd, 2007 at 02:30 PM
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I tried staking mine last year, but it breaks my heart to cut the top off the plant. I just can't do it. laugh

#99180 March 22nd, 2007 at 02:40 PM
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The only time I cut the top
(or tips really)
is at the end of the season to
hurry up the rippening process
if they're lagging and time is short...

Why do you cut yours???

#99181 March 22nd, 2007 at 03:04 PM
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Mine grow taller than the stakes and snap or shred as they droop over the top.

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ahhhhhhh, gotchya!!

Not that I always get mine done this way,
*cause I'm way layed or sidetracked..

But I have taken clothes line string and
strung in in a web like fashion thru all the stakes..
*maybe like 3 layers high*

Then as the tomato plants grow higher/taller
it grows up thru the weblike strings, which hold them up..
Then if they happen to grow taller than the stakes and weblike structure..
They flop over on top of that web...

*I've done it years ago, but no picture*

*I even found some pretty colored string,
one for each layer too, gave some excitement to doing the job and I could tell how high up it
was on each colored string..*

#99183 March 22nd, 2007 at 06:55 PM
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That is a great idea. Do you ever walk into the web? I'm always running into my clothesline (which is right next to the garden) and choking myself. Then I have to look around, too make sure no one saw me!

#99184 March 22nd, 2007 at 08:31 PM
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No, can't..
I have raised beds, so, I'd have to jump up
and get into the bed to do that...

#99185 March 25th, 2007 at 12:42 PM
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I grow too many tomatoes and peppers to cage them it would cost me a fortune, I'm on a fixed income (retired). I have always used stakes, this year I will be using trellises for all my tomatoes and peppers. I can plant more and use both sides for support and planting.
joyce

#99186 March 25th, 2007 at 01:20 PM
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I hope you keep us posted, and with a picture or two from the trellis's... I would love to see it..
REALLLLLLY, I love new projects/idea's...
So does everyone else..


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