What is a Japanese Tomatoe Ring? My patty pan squash is coming out some look like patty pan, some look like small hubbards, strange. I’m getting ready to move my tomato plant into the shade, I noticed, yesterday it looked wilted, but had been watered. My hanging tomato in a pot is doing well as are the yard long beans I planted in the top of the pot. The pot is a commercial soap bucket.
Sorry so long in replying. A Japanese is a way of super feeding tomatoes, when your soil isn’t the greatest. The lady who introduces this method to me had 8 foot high plants that with huges yields last year. What you do is you make a 5 foot or so ring of chicken wire. You put 6 inches of compost in the ring, then 40 lbs of top soil, then 2.5 lbs of fertalizer, then another layer of compost, another layer of soil and another 2 lbs of fertilizer. You plant four tomatoes around the ring and use the ring as your steak. The roots will grow up and into the pile of nutrients and the nutrients will seep down around the plants. By the way, this is not a Japanese growing method. The way the rings came to be called “Japanes” was through an interesting accident. Have fun!