General discussion regarding the techniques and methods used to successfully grow tomato plants in containers.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: SoCal Inland
Posts: 2,705
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Maybe we should start a letters to the Editor campaign. We all understand how damaging these sprays can be and how far the drift can travel, but it is not generally known outside of gardening geeks like us.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Honey Brook, PA Zone 6b
Posts: 399
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I used to grow grapes and also took some tours of wineries here in PA. I heard stories of vineyards lost due to spray drift (At the time 2,4 D was very popular for corn). I also had a very learned vineyardest showed damage and described how even though the farmer on the other side of his narrow valley had sprayed correctly without normal drift, that under the right atmospheric conditions (probably not occuring in CA ![]() |
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#18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
Posts: 3,207
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To think, back in the early 90s when I lived west of Tulsa all the fields in my area were sprayed with 2,4,D or Graze-on from crop duster planes. Ugh!
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#19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: oak grove mo
Posts: 406
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I did get lucky today. A friend of mine called and said he had three volunteers brandywines come up in his garden.I'll go by and get them tomarrow and replace a few of the worst plants.I'll be a month late but maybe I';ll get a fall crop off these plants. Hopefully the rest will recovery and give me some kind of crop
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#20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
Posts: 3,207
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I have a ton of volunteers now and they are catching up/surpassing the planted ones!
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#21 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: rienzi, ms
Posts: 470
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by volunteers do you mean surprise plants? i had one of those come up in one of my corn/squash mounds and it looks great, probably the nicest looking youngling i've got going so far
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#22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: oak grove mo
Posts: 406
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The brandywines shouldn't be a suprise.It was the only potato leaf he planted last yr.
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