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Keeping tomatoes off the ground

ost tomato plants are staked for various reasons, including the fact that foliage or fruit that touch moist soil may become diseased. However, there are occasions when you can grow determinate varieties without staking them, provided you don’t expect rain during the growth of the crop, and you use drip irrigation so that the crop can

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