Tomato Culture: a Practical Treatise On the Tomato

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CHAPTER V Selection of Soil for Maximum Crop Large yields of tomatoes have been, and can be, obtained from soils ofvarying composition, from a gumbo prairie, a black marsh muck, or astiff, tenacious clay, to one of light drifting sand, provided otherconditions, such as drainage, tilth and fertility are favorable. TheConnecticut experiment station and others have secured good results fromplants grown under glass in a soil of sifted coal ashes and muck, oreven from coal ashes alone, the requisite
... plant food being supplied insolution. But a maximum crop could never, and a full one very seldom, beproduced on a soil, no matter what its composition, which could not be, or was not put into and kept in a good state of tilth, or on one whichwas poorly drained, sodden or sour, or which was so leachy that it wasimpossible to retain a fair supply of moisture and of plant food.
Of the 10 largest yields of which I have personal knowledge and whichran from 1, 000 to 1, 200 bushels of fruit (acceptable for canning and atleast two-thirds of it of prime market quality) an acre, four were grownon soils classed as clay loam, two on heavy clay--one of which was soheavy that clay for making brick was subsequently taken from the veryspot which yielded the most and best fruit--one on what had been a blackash swamp, one on a sandy muck, two on a sandy loam and one on a lightsand made very rich by heavy, annual manuring for several years.


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