Comments on: Gardening on a Friday

By: david

david — Tue, 17 May 2005 14:31:04 +0000

I certainly hope that you get more than just the two tomaters as well… that was just downright wrong last year. Margaret had a potted plant on her patio that was kicking out six tomaters an hour, and your garden had, what six, something like six tomater plants and the squirrels got all the tomaters.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 May 2005 18:03:13 +0000

I read that tomatoes grow well in sand. Unfortunately we have a lot of clay around this area. I added sand to my garden last year or the year before. Sand + clay = concrete… and needless to say nothing grows too well in concrete. The loose organic material I have now seems to be great for maintaining moisture. I used to be of the mindset that clay wasn’t too bad because it’d hold onto moisture much better than plain old dirt – while that may be true for heavy penetrating rain followed by long dry spells, it’s not true when you have regular short watering. Further, the roots suck at penetrating the clay – so now every time I see a dried ball of red clay I break it up and sprinkle it around, hand mixing it in with the organic material. It may re-form eventually into clay balls, but maybe not.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:58:39 +0000

Try mixing sand in with your top soil, does wonders for holding moisture and makes it easier for roots to grow out.