Our tomato staking method around the Homegrown Evolution compound is simple and lazy. We plant our tomatoes and then surround them with rolled up concrete reinforcing wire. Normally used to reinforce concrete slabs, reinforcing wire comes in 3 1/2′ by 7′ sections. We use a circular saw with a metal blade on it to cut off the bottom rung, so as to leave spiky wires with which to stick the reinforcing wire tubes into the ground, but this is not absolutely necessary.
Once in place that’s it. According to So Cal gardening guru Pat Welsh, tomatoes surrounded by a reinforcing wire staking system need not be pruned nor will they need any additional staking.
Over time the reinforcing wire rusts lending the garden a certain deconstructed vibe.
Numbers? Weh– I work in banks.
I had *so much fun* playing with those dolphins.
Why did you say this? I have been looking for a recording where this was a spoken word part in a song. Please tell me where you got this!
It’s nice to see someone quoting SurviveLA’s favorite album from High School, the obscure “Flee Past Ape’s Elf” by Orchid Spangiafora. Rock on anonymous and send us an email . . .
Ah, so you *are* you.
Watch, and get a photographer sneaking out from behind a tree!
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