Posted by Dan L. on March 11, 2010, 4:05 pm
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> > This year I plan to have over 250 tomato plants. I have made lots of raised
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> wow, what do you do with all the tomatoes, literally a ton I'd imagine
I am growing 60 tomato plants just for me, myself and I. For no one else!
It takes 56 pounds of tomatoes to make 7 quarts of juice. Plus I want to
preserve salsa, whole tomatoes, dice tomatoes, sauce and vegetable soup.
This is just for one years use. For a large family, 250 plants is just
about right. Tomatoes are basic staple in my life. Homemade vine ripe
tomato juice is just delightful. I might even try to make my own ketchup
this year :)
Not all plants will take. What does the organic gardner say. Plant one
for the mouse, one for the bugs, one for the animals and one for
yourself. I think that is how it goes. If I run out of canning jars and
lids the extra makes good compost.
Enjoy Life... Dan
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Garden in Zone 5 South East Michigan.
Posted by Suzanne D. on March 13, 2010, 2:28 am
> This year I plan to have over 250 tomato plants. I have made lots of
> raised
wow, what do you do with all the tomatoes, literally a ton I'd imagine
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What the kids don't eat (and with 60 plants last year, there wasn't much
left over, if that gives you an idea of how much they love tomatoes!) will
get made into sauce. And of course the neighbors will get some!
--S.
Posted by Marq on March 26, 2010, 9:29 am
> This year I plan to have over 250 tomato plants. I have made lots of
> raised beds, 3X6 feet. Last year I put groups of two plants every 2
> feet (12 to a bed) so that two plants could share a single cage and a
> single drip emitter. This year I think I will stagger them in a
> zig-zag every foot, to get more in each bed, two rows to a bed,
> watered down the middle of each row with one of those 1/4" tubes with
> holes punched every 6 inches.
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> Does anyone have any creative and not-too-difficult idea for how to
> support these plants? Would some structure down the center of the bed
> work, or should I put something on the outsides of the beds, or use
> individual cages spaced every few feet and let the tomatoes just find
> them? I obviously don't want to purchase 250 cages, but I also don't
> want these plants trailing all over the ground. (Last year my
> tomatoes got up to about ten feet.)
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> Any interesting suggestions will be appreciated.
> --S.
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My Dad used this based on the idea YEARS ago,
http://www.ehow.com/how_4905570_tomato-cages-using-scrap-materials.html
Hope this helps, but with 250 you need to be nuts about toms.(as I am)
Will you let me know your eventual solution please?
I grow about 40 plants each year and never have enough tomatoes and also
don't have enough time or room to experiment.
Marq
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