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Square Foot Gardening and the Japanese Tomato Ring
are two gardening methods that are designed to produce high
yields with limited space. “Square Foot Gardening”
is an exciting new theory developed by Mel Bartholomew that
is specifically designed to grow a thriving garden in less space
than traditional gardens, with fewer resources and significantly
less environmental impact. His ideas have been utilized in countries
throughout the world and are very adaptable. The basics of the
technique are to garden in squares instead of rows with a custom
soil mixture. You then plant each square with a separate crop,
changing out crops as they are harvested. To learn more about
this inventive new gardening method, check out the official
site for Square Foot Gardening.
The Japanese Tomato Ring is an unusual growing technique that
one gardener claims can produce as many as 600 tomatoes per
plant every year. The Japanese Tomato Ring was supposedly developed
by a postman in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1960s. The
technique is based on the postman’s own design and curiously
has nothing to do with Japan. Read the history
of the Japanese Tomato Ring here.
This method involves forming a large ring with fencing wire
and filling it with a fertile mixture of topsoil, compost, and
mulch. The tomatoes are actually planted around the outside
of the ring and send their roots into the nutrient rich soil
and compost mixture, which has plenty of air pockets for the
roots to breath. Watering is performed not by irrigating the
plants, but by pouring water over the top of the ring and letting
the water and nutrients slowly water and fertilize the plants.
As the tomatoes grow, you can tie them onto the fence and train
them to grow up and over the ring. This Florida
horticultural extension site explains how this method works
and even has a diagram.
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