Burning Down The House

[AlittleSalt]

There has to be a way

[AlittleSalt]

My wife wants tomatoes. There's a house that needs to be burnt down in my garden. It has RKN in that garden space. Hmm, I'm 57 and don't give a care anymore. Burn it down and F RKN might still be there or not?

[brownrexx]

I know of people in RKN areas that plant their tomato plants in huge pots and separate the bottom of the pots from the infected ground with black plastic or putting the pots up on blocks or a pallet. That's what I would to.

[GoDawgs]

The tomatoes here are grown down in the garden in large pots set on wooden pallets. That solves not only the RKN problem for me but also whatever bacterial wilt will collapse the tomatoes. The corners of the pallets have bricks under them in an effort to keep the fire ants out of the buckets. It works good until about 3/4 way through the season when they set up housekeeping in one or two buckets. Then it's time for Death From Above, a gallon of soapy water to drown the suckers in the buckets. They usually don't return.

[MissS]

If that house is on a concrete slab then you can easily container garden on it without getting RKN.

[Sue_CT]

I can only imagine how hot a concrete slab would get in the Texas heat, I would still probably elevate the pots somehow on bricks or something to allow for some airflow around the pot instead of sitting it right on the concrete. Excellent idea, though.