Targeting a super tall tomato plant

[IdahoTee]

I was able to locate the Zamzows page "Growing the Tallest Tomato Plant" via the Internet Wayback machine. (That is a great resource BTW, as it takes snapshots of websites over several years so you can search old, no longer published web pages)

Here is what Jim did:

It’s just not a matter of what products Jim used; it’s how he grew it!

First, you plant one tomato plant in an 8’ by 8’ square so it had the room needed for the roots to spread. The entire area was then covered with a 4” mulch of alfalfa hay.

The soil in the entire area was conditioned the previous fall with plenty of Gandma Z’s Premium Compost and Zamzows THRIVE.

The tomato was planted in the middle of the 8’x8’ square and was fed with one ounce of Thrive in 1 gallon of water (which was repeated every two weeks throughout the season}.

The plant was also foliar-fed with Zamzows Thrive Boom and Magic Mineral (an experimental mineral and Complex Compound Fertilizer).

Jim built a special 30 inch diameter frame to hold the plant made from concrete reinforcing wire and anchored securely with 30” rebar with a “hook” at the end.

The plant was trained to grow with one sucker per vertical wire…and then tied weekly. All other suckers were removed.

My memory was off a bit but this clarifies things. Sounds like the use of hay mulch was a consistent method between Zamzow and Wilbur.