Tomatoes are like some wild animals (and other entities); they need to be restrained. The youth minister’s best friend gave the garden 24 tomato cages. Her church supports the Network, and she wanted to make a contribution to our garden. With the cages, the plants won’t touch the ground and, hopefully, will produce lots tomatoes. If you would like to check out the garden, there are four little tomatoes growing on one of the plants in the first garden bed.
Four raised beds are planted with Chef Jeff’s Early Girl and hybrid tomatoes, Chef Jeff’s California Wonders Green Peppers, Burpee’s Bush Blue Lake 47 green beans, Burpee’s Cucumber Bush Champion Slicing Cucumbers, and carrots. I am keeping a journal of the kinds of vegetables, their production, planting dates, problems, and so on. This should help us as we do our succession planting. We may have to make cucumber frames as the plants grow. Later in the season, we will have pole beans as well. In two of the beds, marigolds are starting to grow. They will help naturally control any insects that may want to use the tomato plants as a snack.
We may have our drip irrigation problem solved next week!
