[permaculture-oceania] Arrowroot, tomatoes and tools

[Mike Morris]

On 28/08/06, jedd <jedd at progsoc.org> wrote:

>  Can other plants (especially eggplant, capsicum/chillis) be planted
>  out as seedlings in the same way that tomatoes can - ie, buried maybe
>  a foot deep with the top few leaves showing.

They can be planted deep, though perhaps noot as deep as you are
suggesting.  I usually do this with both Chillis and Eggplant, and it
certainly does help the plant to be more stable in windy conditions.
However, I don't think they put out much in the way of adventitious
roots as Tomatoes do, the stems being that much more woody than
Tomatoes' - some, though, but insignificant for affecting cropping or
drought hardiness.  (All this from my own experience and observation,
particularly of several hundred chilli plants each year :-)

Whilst on the subject, I have found it very worthwhile to plant Chilli
plants /much/ closer together than usually suggested - as close as
15cm spacing.  What you lose in productivity from each individual
plant is much more than made up by overall yield, and much reduced
sun-scald of the fruit.  (Hmmm.... I wonder if/how it would work for
Eggplants.  Will give it a trial this coming season.)
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