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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The soil here isn’t great, but it’s not bad. Nominal 6” of black topsoil over some pretty tight clay, but there’s no rock.

Right now the plan is to put pumpkins on most of this patch next season. This past summer I learned that I’m not man enough to keep up with 500 tomato plants without some serious gains in efficiency. I need to put up a packing house of some sort before I set out that many again.


64 posted on 11/22/2016 6:48:47 AM PST by Augie
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To: Augie

We had four tomato plants in our raised beds. All were roma varieties.
We had more tomatoes than we could eat, harvesting as many as a dozen every day.
We made pasta sauce, froze some for chili this winter and had BLTs, etc.

Our soil is Ozark creek bottom, modified with a truckload of top soil from southern Iowa.
The beds are 4’ X 10’ and about 40 inches deep.


65 posted on 11/22/2016 7:04:03 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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