A few years ago I was doing this roof for this farmer. As the day went on the farmer was out in his garden running his tiller around in a circle about 15 ft wide…

Then he came out with a 5 gallon bucket and fill it with dirt he then dump the dirt far in another section of his garden…after a bit he walk out of his shed with bucket fill with something else and dump it back into the circle he been working on and started the tiller up again.

He then put some weed control netting down and later he walked out with 2 section of concrete mesh wire. One was 8 ft. long and the other was 10 ft. bye 6 ft. tall. He put the first 8 ft one together in a circle and then planted 6 jet star tomatoes around it. Then he put the 10 ft. around the first.

Later I ask what was in the bucket. Sheep manure he said. You take those jet star as they grow up between the wire you keep the limbs pull inside. This keeps the center clear for air circulation. He said they will grow out the top of this 6 ft gage and produce 400 to 500 pounds of tomatoes. He also made it clear it had to be jet star tomatoes.

A couple months later I stop by wanted to see if this really happen and it sure did. These tomatoes were growing out the top of that gage and were loaded down big time.

The year before I move to Missouri, I tried this but could not find any sheep manure so I used Tomato Tone. I had a lot of tomatoes but not like the farmer did.

When I first moved to Missouri I lived down there in Stone County and they call it that for a reason.So I was a bucket farmer for the last 3 years. Not very good.

SO now that I have another garden spot I’m going to do this again. Just need to find some sheep Manure.