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Tomato and Cucumber Plant Spacing
Jul 25
Planting three tomato plants in one grow bag creates a mess, although the self-watering boxes are prepared for three plants having three internal tubes reaching down into the water.
When you’re dealing with cucumber plants it’s even too much with two plants in each grow bag:

One cucumber plant in each grow bag is a better solution.
Last year I did in fact only plant two tomato plants in each grow bag, with a good result. Here’s a picture from last year:

I’m building up my courage to try and grow tomatoes without the self-watering boxes and just grow them directly in the ground. I guess the boxes are not old school enough for me after all
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2 Responses to “Tomato and Cucumber Plant Spacing”
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liz said on July 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
What an awesome blog! Simple, uncluttered and highly informative. Great job! Stumbling it right now.
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Thomas W. said on July 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Thank you Liz for your kind words and the stumble!
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