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 ‘tomatoes’
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 [...]
27 Feb
Spring Garden Planning – on Paper
When I originally built my first set of garden beds in 2008, I had a brilliant idea. Every web site and book I could find was telling me that I wanted my garden beds to be 4 feet wide, for the convenience of reaching the crops easily and the benefit of never having to set [...]
7 Jun
June 1st Garden Panorama
If you look closely enough you can see a few of the “stitching” mistakes. Oh well, you get the idea.
11 May
Protecting Tomatoes from late frost
What can you do when you have already planted tomatoes in your garden and you notice that the forecasted overnight low is going to get dangerously close to freezing? Cover them! The ground around the tomatoes will still be warm with the heat absorbed from the sun all week. Even if the ground is 50 [...]
19 Apr
How many tomatoes?
I have alloted two 6 x 8 foot raised beds for tomatoes this year. For each of the last two years I have planted beds this size with 12 tomatoes each, giving them a nice 4 square feet to grow in. Most of the tomatoes I have grown have used all this space and I [...]
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 [...]
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
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