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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I am so suspicious of tomato stuff, that I don’t even put the plants in the compost pile - it all goes to the burn pile, and I rotate the plantings so that there is at least 4 years in between the times that tomatoes are planted.


54 posted on 08/15/2014 2:38:00 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes
greeneyes:"..there is at least 4 years in between the times that tomatoes are planted."

The 4 year cycle rotation is the ideal agricultural practice .
Even the seed stores here have dandelion (sp ?) seed since the roots go down as deep as 15 feet into the subsoil
and draw up micro-nutrients back up into the topsoil .
That is the ideal if you have adequate room for a large garden.
If you don't have much gardening room , you should still rotate "families " of crops to minimize disease and maximize productvity,
or keep a chart of which crops you grew where , so as to keep the soil in rotation.

58 posted on 08/15/2014 2:47:33 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (FUBO; Obungler = The didler CIC)
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