You will get some different POV's by google for "hilling tomato plants". I think it has merit in specific situations - when a plant is in the ground and waterlogged, you can create drainage and a chance for the plant to rebuild a damaged root system by hilling up and at the same time making a ditch along the row.
Maybe this is why it was a common practice in some parts but not others.
I find this idea interesting because of plants getting rootbound in containers at a certain point in the season, where the roots go right to the surface and are exposed because of feeding from the top. So I'm interested in the idea of building up - even if only a few inches - that would allow feeding and topping up the plants at that stage.
Just wondering if I could use something like plastic edging to do that.
It would be cool to see a side by side comparison of how the plants did with and without the box... then we'd know for sure.
