Oh, yeah. invest in a tomato cage for each of your prospective plants. It makes it a lot easier for the plant to produce, because it doesn't have to support its own weight. They also make it easier for you to harvest, because the cage spreads out the branches of the plants.
Just don't do what I did and plant three plants each of six different tomato varieties all at the same time. We had to give tomatoes away by the grocery bagful that year... and we ate Mediterranean Bread Salad by the cartload that summer--which calls for a pound of tomatoes right off the bat. It would have been a lot better had I bought them spread apart three weeks in succession so the yields weren't all happening all in the same timeframe.
Gardening's fun! When it all works, the eatin' is just fabulous.
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Date: 2005-04-25 11:12 pm (UTC)Just don't do what I did and plant three plants each of six different tomato varieties all at the same time. We had to give tomatoes away by the grocery bagful that year... and we ate Mediterranean Bread Salad by the cartload that summer--which calls for a pound of tomatoes right off the bat. It would have been a lot better had I bought them spread apart three weeks in succession so the yields weren't all happening all in the same timeframe.
Gardening's fun! When it all works, the eatin' is just fabulous.