Tomato Notes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tomato Notes Certain of the more salient points in the field management of this crop which have received the writer's attention during a somewhat extended study, are considered in this connection. One of the most important problems in tomato culture is that of earliness. As a rule, plants purchased of the local dealers are drawn and leggy, being crowded together in small boxes. When set in the field, where, too often, the soil is hard and dry, the shock is such that several weeks are re quired for the plants to recover, and no fruit sets until late in the season. In general, these weak drawn plants are not worth setting. Frequent transplanting before setting in the field is the best method of securing strong, stocky, well developed plants. The practice usually followed by the writer has been to sow the seeds in hot beds, or in shallow boxes in the greenhouses, about April 1. When the first true leaves have well started, or as soon as the plants begin to crowd, transfer to 2-inch pots, and later to 3-inch and 4-inch if occasion demands. As a rule, how ever, in this climate, it will be unnecessary to handle the plants more than twice. In the absence of pots, the plants may be handled in boxes, or even in the bed, but pot-grown plants are always preferable, as they are checked less by removal to the field. In the field, the plants are set about 4x5 ft. Many would plant closer, but on reasonably rich ground the plants will cover the whole surface if set at this distance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.