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35652 Re: Tips for those of you who grow tomatoes...
   GOOD Saturday morning folks and sorry Decomposed for the delayed reply... 		hydro_gen   POPE 5   06 Jul 2019
 2:01 PM
35623 Re: Tips for those of you who grow tomatoes...
   Decomposed > Why do you start the panels a foot off the ground?... 		Zimbler0   POPE 5   06 Jul 2019
 1:37 AM

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Re: Tips for those of you who grow tomatoes...

By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Fri, 05 Jul 19 7:09 PM
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hydro_gen:

Re: "I suggest getting a couple of cattle panels from Tractor Supply"What a great suggestion. Thanks! There aren't many local stores, but we DO have a Tractor Supply. Next year, I'll definitely be buying cattle panels. They seem perfect for ANY climbing plant. I'm growing Nasturtium right now... they only grow 4 feet tall, but I picked them over other herbaceous plants because I didn't have much in the way of trellises. (I did have a three-sided trex wall from someone's compost pile. The guy I bought the shed from gave it to me. So that's what the potted Nasturtiums will be climbing.) Your panels ought to be great for beans, too.

Why do you start the panels a foot off the ground? To make the peak higher?

Epsom salts in the tomato soil sounds like a good tip too. I haven't heard that one before. How much salt would you recommend per cubic foot of soil? I don't want to poison my plants...

As for preparing a garlic plot, what suggestions would you have? I *have* tested my soil. (Amazon has a do-it-yourself 10-pack of tests for about thirty bucks.) The results were:

ph: 5.4 - which is between “acid” and “very acid” but closer to “acid”. nitrogen: depleted - there is no nitrogen. add dried blood (36 oz per 100 sq ft) or nitrate of soda (27 oz per 100 sq ft) phosphorous: sufficient. and “sufficient” means “perfect.” potassium: depleted - there is no potassium. add muriate of potash (9 oz per 100 sq ft).

Once I augment the soil and tarp it over to kill the grass, what then? Would a 10'x10' area be sufficiently large for a newbie's garlic patch? When should I plant? Frosts here run from late October to mid-May.

Good luck with your plants! I see one of your green tomatoes is coming along. Mine only started appearing last week.


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