Tips for the Lazy Gardener by Linda Tilgner

Author:Linda Tilgner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Ray Lambert digs out an eight- to twelve-inch deep circle four feet in diameter, fills it with manure and compost, and puts a little soil on top. He plants six early (determinate) tomato plants around the circumference of the circle and slips wire cages over them. In the center of the circle, he sets a two-foot high, two-foot diameter cylinder of pea wire. He fills it with manure and compost.

In dry weather, he lets a hose trickle into the top of the feeding cylinder. He does virtually nothing else — doesn’t prune, doesn’t weed, doesn’t feed. The cages contain the plants, the plants are close enough together so they shade the soil and no weeds grow, and the center cylinder does the feeding.

He does the same thing with late varieties of tomatoes, but because they need more room, he sets only four plants around one feeding cylinder, two to three feet apart. In mid-August, he chops off the tops, so all growth goes to ripening tomatoes.

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