Comments on: Prudent pruning and cagey cages http://hackstadt.com/blog/2006/07/05/prudent-pruning-and-cagey-cages/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:32:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: tim http://hackstadt.com/blog/2006/07/05/prudent-pruning-and-cagey-cages/#comment-2309 tim Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:30:00 +0000 http://hackstadt.com/blog/2006/07/05/prudent-pruning/#comment-2309 Hmmm, maybe a career in experimental agriculture would be good. Anyway, that's one nice set of tomatoes. Hmmm, maybe a career in experimental agriculture would be good.

Anyway, that’s one nice set of tomatoes.

]]> By: Chris http://hackstadt.com/blog/2006/07/05/prudent-pruning-and-cagey-cages/#comment-2293 Chris Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:53:28 +0000 http://hackstadt.com/blog/2006/07/05/prudent-pruning/#comment-2293 I wish you had posted this in May! I have several Roma tomato plants that are unbelievably out of control. We have quite a few fruits, but I think about five times the amount of foliage we need. And we have the generic cages, which don't do a very good job of containment unless you spend hours pushing the branches back in every single day. But, this year, we also have the problem that we are growing in containers, which makes them a little harder to cage. We didn't get around to building the raised beds that we want, partly because we haven't lived in our house for a full year yet, and we don't know the optimal locations for stuff and didn't want to do anything too permanent. But, damn, I wish I could keep our tomato bushes from having those suicide branches that shoot out the side way far and then get fruit on them and then break off. Thanks for the links in your posts. I wish you had posted this in May! I have several Roma tomato plants that are unbelievably out of control. We have quite a few fruits, but I think about five times the amount of foliage we need. And we have the generic cages, which don’t do a very good job of containment unless you spend hours pushing the branches back in every single day. But, this year, we also have the problem that we are growing in containers, which makes them a little harder to cage. We didn’t get around to building the raised beds that we want, partly because we haven’t lived in our house for a full year yet, and we don’t know the optimal locations for stuff and didn’t want to do anything too permanent. But, damn, I wish I could keep our tomato bushes from having those suicide branches that shoot out the side way far and then get fruit on them and then break off. Thanks for the links in your posts.

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