Using baking soda is new to me. I always love hearing what old time gardeners recommend. I am going to have to try this. I had one tell me that he always used copper pipes for tomato stakes because it helped deter slugs and the vibration from wind and storms increased growth. I was really going to try it until I priced copper pipes.
I never grow any hybrids. I quit a few years ago and my heirlooms and open pollinated plants do just as well. The only exception is the trial ones I grow for the Dwarf Project that are still in the hybrid stage. Over the last few years I have become very fond of the dwarfs that have been released. I like having full size tomatoes on an indeterminate plant that is compact.
Even though we are all in Florida there is a lot of difference in our growing condition. I in the very north part of Florida so my conditions are different than someone in south Florida.
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