Comments on: Home Kitchen Tomato Garden http://www.homekitchengarden.com/home-kitchen-garden/home-kitchen-tomato-garden Where you grow your own food for your table Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:35:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.homekitchengarden.com/home-kitchen-garden/home-kitchen-tomato-garden/comment-page-1#comment-42 admin Fri, 08 May 2009 21:29:50 +0000 http://www.homekitchengarden.com/home-kitchen-garden/home-kitchen-tomato-garden#comment-42 Thanks for your comments, and you make an important point that I'll take up in a future post: horse manure is usually seedy. When you use it as mulch and pull weeds when they're reasonably young, they come out very easily, so the weed seeds aren't a big deal. If you turn the manure into the soil, then mulching on top is good practice. Later in life, my mom took on the kitchen garden, and she mulched with black plastic; seeds in the manure never had a chance. Thanks for your comments, and you make an important point that I’ll take up in a future post: horse manure is usually seedy. When you use it as mulch and pull weeds when they’re reasonably young, they come out very easily, so the weed seeds aren’t a big deal. If you turn the manure into the soil, then mulching on top is good practice. Later in life, my mom took on the kitchen garden, and she mulched with black plastic; seeds in the manure never had a chance.

]]> By: Ben http://www.homekitchengarden.com/home-kitchen-garden/home-kitchen-tomato-garden/comment-page-1#comment-41 Ben Fri, 08 May 2009 08:45:08 +0000 http://www.homekitchengarden.com/home-kitchen-garden/home-kitchen-tomato-garden#comment-41 Great post! I can see why your dad's tomatoes grew tall and large, the free draining soil along with it being soft and uncompacted would allow for easy growth. It's interesting that you also use horse manure. Most people don't realise that they can get heaps of it for free from people who own horses, as they think that the horse owner uses it on their own garden. The funny thing is that horse people are into horses, not gardening, and can't seem to get rid of the stuff. Also a lot of the gardening community don't like horse manure as they think that it contains many weed seeds. Some batches do, but if you mulch over the top of the manure there is no weed problem! I know that when I have kids they will have a sand box, now you've given me an idea on how to use it when they grow up! Great post!
I can see why your dad’s tomatoes grew tall and large, the free draining soil along with it being soft and uncompacted would allow for easy growth.

It’s interesting that you also use horse manure. Most people don’t realise that they can get heaps of it for free from people who own horses, as they think that the horse owner uses it on their own garden. The funny thing is that horse people are into horses, not gardening, and can’t seem to get rid of the stuff.

Also a lot of the gardening community don’t like horse manure as they think that it contains many weed seeds. Some batches do, but if you mulch over the top of the manure there is no weed problem!

I know that when I have kids they will have a sand box, now you’ve given me an idea on how to use it when they grow up!

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