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| I read with envy of the most green-eyed kind (especially thinking of fried green tomatoes!) when I read posts on here with people planting 150, 75, even 20 tomato plants --and wonder do you all live on used football pitches?! :) I've got a small garden space in the back corner of our apartment complex. Spacing my tomato plants two feet apart next to a fence I can trellis them up I've been able to get 7 tomato plants in (although 3 of them may get killed again when the neighbours set up their sukkah hut in the fall for Sucot). I've sort of 'guerrilla' planted 4 more around the yard in odd spots --trust me, my neighbours think I'm odd to plant veggies at all. The ones outside of the 'garden plot' are planted in ground that semi-resembles asphalt. I've been able to improve the soil in the garden spot a lot this past year, though definitely it is paltry compared to the soil I worked with in the U.S. I've got another 7 tomato seedlings (some cherry toms from seed I started and some much more boisterous mystery toms that volunteered themselves out of the compost pit). I desperately want to grow those seedlings. Given the yield I got last year off 7 cherry toms, I desperately need to grow those plants. Does anyone know of a way to get your tomatoes to grow and thrive if you plant them closer than 2ft apart? |
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- Posted by missingtheobvious Blue Ridge 7a (My Page) on Thu, Apr 18, 13 at 10:57
| Yaeli, how about containers on a patio or balcony, or on the concrete next to an outside door (if your own apartment has one)? That way the plants would have something better than asphalt to grow in. If you have a really sunny window (south or west are usually brightest), you could try growing indoors also. |
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| Agree that containers are your best bet given all the limitations you have to work with. Check out all the discussions here about 'earthtainers' for a great solution. Dave |
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