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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Tomato Cages
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 16:22:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 16:22:59 1984
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!tellab1!popes says that :
Sprawling will give the heaviest yield of any
method. There is no problem with loss from bug damage(other than that
you would normally have). 
 
Such was not my experience.  Lured by promises of heavy yields with light
labor, I set my tomatoes free last summer.  Approximately half of my
tomatoes rotted on the ground before they ripened completely.  It seemed
that the contact with moist soil was slug and rot heaven.   My yield
was the worst I've ever had.  There's no sensation quite like lifting
a luscious, scarlet Burpee Supersteak (TM, patent pending) half-way from 
the ground, and then feeling your fingers slip deep into its heart, dislodging
the odd slug on the way.
 
Need I add that this year I'm caging religiously?
-- 
Betsy Perry
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