Tie ’em Up! Once the plant starts are established and begin to crawl on the ground we tie them up on fencing, to protect them from wind and it makes it easier to pick later on. Then, Mr. Wind won’t be able to lay them all down if he decides to visit.
We have been blessed this year to have a wonderful young man join us in the garden. He is interested in learning how to garden and you can see his spirit as he works with Mr. Pete on rototilling.
This season Boaz has learned how to plant his own seeds and care for them. Pete and he are planting tomatoes here. Boaz has his crops with ours all over the garden and he is doing quite well. In fact, he sold 10 heads of lettuce at the Deer Park Market on July 1st! Way to go! He is a fun guy to work with.
Tomatoes
This is a 60-foot row of tomatoes with lots of varieties, and sizes but only two cherry tomato plants closest to the gate. Where I stood to take the picture. Why, are there only two cherry tomatoes? We don’t have enough time to harvest those teeny tiny cherry tomatoes.
A larger volume of tomato products is what is important to us. Tied-up tomato plants look like this when done. We grow as many tomatoes as possible. This year we are delighted with how early our tomatoes began to make fruit. We changed the way we start our plants inside in early spring, and are seeing great results this year. It really helps to have sturdy and mature starts for that transplant into the garden. We love to have a pantry full of tomato stuff all year long. Spaghetti, juice, sauce, paste, salsa.. salsa.. salsa… Yum!