Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Jim, l barely had 8" of soil to work with, the soil beneath is rock and sandstone.. so T'frames will be out of the question, l wish l could, but cant, thats why l staked, and caged them the best l could...... l was forced, if l was gonna grow this year, l had to provide my own soil and raised beds to do it.... but l do following the pre-plant and weekly feed practices to the " T ".... and removed the suckers, they just grew like giants....

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To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
From: jim@growfood.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:00:33 +0000
Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Caged tomatoes falling over

I can't SEE them to know for sure what you are talking about, but it sounds as if you did NOT follow the recipe called The Mittleider System of Family Food Production (-: See the file How to Build & Use T-Frames in the Files section.

When growing vertically we specify using a T-Frame structure, with plants in one row - 9" apart - and alternating plants being guided up baling twine strings to opposite sides of the T-Frame. Polypropylene twine is very strong, and the T-Frames are made of treated 4 X 4 lumber.

And of course we prune off the sucker stems, so the plant does NOT become a big mass (& mess).

I would build some T-Frames and tie them up the best you can.

Jim Kennard



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