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Article: Plant a tomato tepee: train four seedlings up poles to save space and reap fruits aplenty. (Garden).
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- Sunset
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- April 1, 2003
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You don't need a big yard to grow tomatoes successfully In Sunset's test garden last summer, we grew four different tomato varieties on a single compact tepee and harvested great crops. We grew 'Marvel Stripe' and 'Mortgage Lifter', both of which bear fruits weighing a pound or more, and 'Dona' and 'Black Krim', which produce smaller fruits in prodigious quantity. These are all indeterminate types, meaning that the plants continue to grow and bear tomatoes over a long season.
What's the secret of this method? No sprawling allowed! From the time the tomatoes go into the ground, they're trained up the tepee's bamboo poles. As the vines grow, they're tied to the ...