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Sat, Aug 30, 14 at 11:23
| These are what I like to call "bonus tomato plants". These grew from tomatoes that dropped on the ground from my container last year. Here's the thing, these are so much healthier looking than the ones I tend to. The ones I tend to I: prune, weed, have a fertilizing schedule, have tomato cages. These, I've done nothing but water every-now-and-then. No fertilizer, no support, no weeding (as you can see, lol. My poor hosta though). The only draw-back is that these are growing tomatoes slower (probably because of the crowding and they are not in a sunny spot). There is about 5 or 6 tomato plants here. Does anyone here seem to have better results when they don't support their tomato plant (ie: cages, spiral, stakes)? |
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- Posted by kathleen57 (My Page) on Sat, Aug 30, 14 at 11:30
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| Better results? No as too much fruit is lost to rot, diseases, and other damage when plants are allowed to sprawl. Although with determinate type plants I find the damage is much less than with indeterminates. As you mentioned, there are plenty of other factors that can contribute to these plants vs. the others rather than just the lack of support with a cage. The lack of any pruning would be one big factor IMO. That they aren't in containers is another. That they are volunteers is another. How well they will actually produce and if the fruit is edible remains to be seen. Dave |
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