A big part of the New Yorkshire allotment is to try out new/non-conventional growing methods, and see how they fare against the more orthodox efforts and techniques of the other plots. A key part of this is to conserve room, or rather maximise the use of space, what with the New Yorkshire pitch being 2 plots each approx. 1.5meters x 6meters.Anyway! Some time ago, we discovered discussions on a 'Japanese Tomato Ring' (nothing to do with the horror film/wells/vhs tapes). What is this 'tomato ring' you ask? In summary, it's a wire-made cylindrical tower of compost and leaves (etc), about 1m diameter, with 3 or 4 tomato plants on its outer circumference. Apparently, the tomatoes send their roots up into the tower of nutrients, allowing them to yeild massive amounts of tomatoes - check out this article for more insight.
We planted a few tomato plants of the same size near it to gauge progress in terms of plant size and crop yeild - keep posted!
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