01-26-2010, 05:59 PM
We grew a few types of tomato plants and the cherry tomatoes took off with no problems at all. They were outside in the ground and all we did was build a trellis and put large mesh netting to keep the birds off. Zero problems with bugs or mildew. Probably just lucky. We had a yellow tomato shaped like a pear and those tended to split. The taste was fine, but the texture was off.
We used 3/8" black cinder soil from Sanford with a hole scooped out and mixed in supersoil with the cinder soil. The fertilizer was CTAHR and dolomite. A friends father was a soil scientist with UH and he developed the CTAHR fertilizer specifically for the mineral deficient soils typically mixed with the cinder for the cinder soil. Our next batch of tomatoes will be inside a greenhouse similar to what Dick Wilson has above, but with the cherry tomatoes still outside.
Good luck,
Sean
We used 3/8" black cinder soil from Sanford with a hole scooped out and mixed in supersoil with the cinder soil. The fertilizer was CTAHR and dolomite. A friends father was a soil scientist with UH and he developed the CTAHR fertilizer specifically for the mineral deficient soils typically mixed with the cinder for the cinder soil. Our next batch of tomatoes will be inside a greenhouse similar to what Dick Wilson has above, but with the cherry tomatoes still outside.
Good luck,
Sean
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