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Message: [QUOTE="yardiron, post: 229425, member: 17013"] The only 'pests' I've had to deal with is bacterial canker or spot one year and we have huge numbers of ground hogs here. (Tomatoes started getting bleached out white spots all over the tops that turned into round bullseye blotches or rotten spots). It happened only during the super hot weeks of summer, when the temps were over 90 degrees for several weeks at a time that year. Once the weather cooled, the spots and bad spots were gone and the plants went on producing just fine with the new growth producing spotless tomatoes till November while the lower plant, nearly 6ft tall by that point was almost devoid of leaves. The new growth was thick and heavy with leaves and the plants draped over the tops of heir 6ft cages made from concrete reinforcement wire. Ground hogs are what made me give up on planting any leafy green in the garden. I now have two raised boxes 8ft long for cabbage and romaine lettuce, and a few red beets. The 20x20 plot gets peas/beans in one row seasonally, tomatoes in another, okra in another and zucchini/ pickles and peppers in the last row. I put 8 large variety indeterminate tomato plants in one 20ft row, about 40 Okra plants per row, and I use the same spacing and cages for my zucchini, and pickles, usually 2 pickle plants, and 6 zucchini plants, plus 2 or 4 jalepeno plants, and sometimes I squeaze in an extra pepper plant at the end of the tomoto row too. I used to till up longer rows but the last 10ft of ground never produced much and watering that section meant soaking wear and tear on the building both due to wear from the plants or constant water. Since I rebuilt the wall on the shed I shortened the four rows down to 20ft tops. If it were up to me, I'd have put that shed on the other side of the yard but I'm not busting up a perfectly good foundation and building just to gain a bit of garden space, and doing so would also mean taking out a massive silver maple tree that would cost a fortune to have removed. Besides, i don't really want loose another shade tree. [/QUOTE]

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