MB>I am interested in your comment about moving the soil in your
  >tomato garden. I've been trying to "downsize" my garden since
  >it's hard to keep up with the weeding etc in a bigger one.  But
  >tomatoes can shade other plants so it's hard to rotate them.  How
  >deep does he dig the soil when he moves it?  That sounds like
  >that might be a good solution for me.
My husband takes about a foot of topsoil off and this added to the 
flower gardens around the property.  Because our area is a hard clay 
area, this is one way of breaking it up more each year.  Ordinarily we 
would add fresh soil and peat moss to the flower gardens each spring, 
but now we take some of that from the tomato garden and replace it 
with top soil, compost from our composter and peat moss.  This is just 
the soil bed, he adds other things because of them being tomato beds.  
I will have to ask him what he adds...this is not my garde, but his.
                           Doris Dignard
                      dorisdignard@better.net
                    doris.dignard@capcanada.com
                      
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