TOMATO PLANTING
Suitable manuring and rotation of crops are most important. Though' plants differ in the way of producing their respective products, experience has taught us that it is not wise to plant these in successive years. Tomato fruits above the ground and potatoes are borne on the roots, but they are so allied to each other in their growth that trouble with disease has often occurred where one has been planted in a plot where the other had been grown. Though many growers make rotation of crops a study, some of them do not consider it of such importance. It is a well-known fact that ground that has been planted for successive years with class of crop will be depleted in the certain class of plant food required to develop that "crop.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 32
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133TOMATO PLANTING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 32
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