Re: [gardeners] 3 Tomato Plant
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sat, 09 Dec 2000 08:22:35 -0700
At 07:36 PM 12/8/00 -0600, you wrote:
>You would probably get very few tomatoes. I live in an area that gets 65
>to 100
>inches or rain annually and we seldom get many tomatoes. We fight everything
>that has to do with too much water. The three year drought that just ended was
>the opposite, I got lots of tomatoes because I was able to give the plants
>just
>the amount of water they wanted, ie when the soil started drying out at
>one inch
>depth I watered them until I had put one inch onto the plants roots. If that's
>what you have in mind it will probably work but I wouldn't let the leaves or
>fruit get wet and only water at the roots and just enough, not drenched
>totally.
>I hope you see what I'm aiming at here. There are other gardeners on this list
>with lots of tomato sense and they will probably pipe up.
>
>George
George, do any gardeners in your neck of the woods use raised beds to
improve drainage for garden plants? Margaret L