And a Good Year for Tomatoes
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- October
- 10
This has been one of my best summers for tomatoes. I think it’s because we really spread them out and gave each plant lots of room to grow, with good air circulation and nothing else around them.
When planting, we also tried to lay the stalks flat (a good 6 to 8 inches up the plant) and cover them with soil to encourage lots of horizontal root growth.
Let’s see how long we can hang on before a frost.
Lots of green ones yet to ripen.
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on Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am by Bill Cary.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
