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Post by daylilydude on May 3, 2017 4:06:08 GMT -5
Was wondering if you had a certain spacing you use for your tomato plants? I know it's probably gonna make a difference on what your growing... determinate, non determinate, dwarf and so on but was just gonna see if y'all had a certain space that you kinda/sorta stick to most of the time? Here most of the time I stick to 2ft. or there abouts for my tomato plants and it seems to work out alright.
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Post by paulf on May 3, 2017 7:37:33 GMT -5
My tomato cages are reinforced concrete wire circles about 2 feet in diameter. Centering the plant that gives about a foot from plant to cage edge. Then a space between cages of three feet. So for me it is 4 feet apart in each direction. This year the east/west rows are four wide and the north/south about eight plus a row of three plants. All the tomatoes this year are OP indeterminate but when I grew a dwarf it got the same spacing just because I like keeping the pattern. I like to be able to walk all around each plant.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 3, 2017 10:07:38 GMT -5
Ah, I wish I had the space to set my plants so far apart!
I settle for being able to walk around the ends of my EBs and when the plants get big I can just barely squeeeeeze between the boxes - at least, I can get in there as long as I dutifully keep the stray branches tied to the trellises.
I have two plants per EB, with a trellis 5' wide and about 6' tall over each EB. So each pair of plants shares a 5' wide by 6' tall vertical trellis as their growing area. Since the plants that share a box will end up all tangled together, I try to pair up tomatoes that are a different color/size/shape so I can tell them apart when harvesting. The EBs are spaced 3' apart. If I had put the boxes 4' or 5' apart it would have been much easier to walk in between the boxes when the plants get huge, but since my garden is space limited, I would have had to put in fewer EBs and grow fewer tomatoes.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 3, 2017 10:28:51 GMT -5
I space them 2-3 feet apart, down the trellises, depending on the size of the plants. For new types I'm guessing, but cherries traditionally grow the largest, so I assume that to start. The Earthboxes and other SIPs I have net trellises over, and space them a few feet apart, since the two plants are pretty close, and I train them toward the empty area, though eventually, they get all run together!
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Post by paquebot on May 3, 2017 22:21:26 GMT -5
I plant mostly pairs which are spaced about 2 feet apart. Then 10 to 12 feet between pairs. Doesn't matter if determinate or indeterminate. Root system of an average tomato may extend 9 feet or more in all directions. Favorite crop in between is beans and peppers. All are New World species and get along fine.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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