Oh, what to do with with the too tall & spindly tomato plants that you've put off getting into the ground? Are they a lost cause? Need to head back to the garden-center and get some fresh "perfect" ones? Au contraire. Check out our Trench Planting Tomatoes blog-post, and find out how you can not just salvage your maladroit seedlings but make them truly flourish.
So, funny story, Japanese tomato rings most likely didn't originate in Japan. About 60 years ago a postal worker from Charleston, South Carolina named Callahan was being interviewed about his tomato growing practices by a reporter named Eddie Jones. As they were talking about the ring method he used for growing plentiful tomatoes, Callahan also spoke about his tours in the Air Force and time he had spent in Japan. Eddie inferred that the rings came from Japanese gardening, but they never did. Eddie's story ran in the paper and was quite popular, so popular in fact, that it ran year after year during gardening season and eventually was picked up by newspapers around the nation. And the rest is history, as they say. Check out our Japanese Tomato Rings blog-post, and you too can perfect the time-honored "Charleston, South Carolina Tomato Rings" technique.
