beth@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/21/83)
To get away from the fear and death topics, I'll describe my experiences
with growing tomatoes indoors. I wish I remembered the name of the variety,
but I got it from my mother and she forgets. Anyway, I have a "basket
tomato" growing in a 12" across x 8" deep pot on my windowsill. Since
March it has produced about 30 tomatoes (about cherry tomato size). I didn't
expect it to produce wildly, but the tomatoes have never made it into a salad
because they are so delicious, I eat them right off the plant. I've taken
cuttings from it, and those are growing tomotoes as well. They get the
afternoon sun and love it in the window. The original plant in about two
and a half feet tall and three feet across. It really looks good in the
window. I've also grown lettuce indoors. I've just noticed that vegetables
seem to need more water and direct sunshine than the usual houseplant.
Now back to killing. I have fought off the tomato horn worms on the outdoor
tomatoes by pulling them off and squashing them. But now I have a different
type of green caterpiller. They are about an inch and a half long, have
brownish stripes, and eat tomato leaves but not as voraciously as do the
horn worms. Does anyone out there know what they are? Again, I am just
removing them and squashing.
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Beth Katz at Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Dept. of Computer Science
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