The tomatoes are starting to grow well for me in their new boxes. As you might be able to see I have planted each one with two basil friends to keep it company, and nature has planted several annoying wanna-be friends in there too. The wire tomato cages are only there to steady the plant [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tomato’
1 Apr
Moving tomatoes
My tomatoes have been getting blight (I believe it’s septoria leaf spot) earlier and earlier each year. I decided that I need to move them completely out of my main garden area this year. I built these four 2 foot by 2 foot raised “bed” boxes up by my back porch. They’ll get great sun [...]
23 Aug
Tomato Stealer
Our Boston Terrier has been helping herself to garden tomatoes all season. Seems healthy enough to me.
27 Mar
Time to thin the ‘maters.
I did not know if I should expect a good rate of germination from the tomato seeds I saved last year, so planted 3 or 4 seeds in each of these 72 compartments. Most grew. Now it’s time to thin the ‘maters. I just clipped them off with scissors.
3 Feb
Kid’s Garden Planner
I am adding two new 4 ft x 8 ft garden beds this year, so I decided to let my kids each plant one. I’ll also let our wonderful friend and neighbor, M., plant one of my existing 4×8′s. These children are 8, 6 and 6 years old, so I made them up a planning [...]
2 Jul
I picked 25 or 30 tomatoes today…
…in about 15 seconds. These are “Spoon” tomatoes, which are a type of very small currant tomatoes. The ones shown here are the first to get ripe. Later in the year I expect much greater smallness from them. The seeds were given to me as a novelty present this Christmas, so I grew one. These [...]
28 Jun
Tomato Sun Scald
When I finally got around to trellising my community garden tomato plants, they were a huge tangled mess. I pruned back many of them quite a bit just so I could see what I was doing to get them strung up off the ground. Unfortunately, many tomatoes that had been shaded up to that point [...]
21 Jun
Green Tomatoes. Beefmaster, Big Mama and Cabin
Here are a few pictures of my developing tomatoes. Unfortunately, two of the three featured in this post are hybrids. I’m going to actively move away from the hybrids in the next few years. That’s the main reason why I am growing so many different tomatoes (18 types this year)… I want to find an [...]
19 Jun
Tomato Trellises 2009
I built these interesting, semi-obelisk tomato trellises this year to try to give the tomato plants more head room at the top versus last year’s teepee design. I’ll probably change them next year to give them a slightly wider footprint.
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