All together, I put 46 seedlings and young plants in the ground today. I hand dug each hole, filled it with water, added a pinch of Epsom salt, and then transplanted the tomatoes (and watered them a few more times for good measure). I did run out of bamboo poles in the end there, but I plan to go to Menards tomorrow anyway so I can pick up a few more while I'm there.
I spent most of today transplanting tomatoes. It took longer than anticipated to prepare the backyard to be a garden, so we only tilled and amended this section for the tomatoes. Last year the tomatoes ended up abandoned in garden cups in the back yard for months while we dealt with other stuff. I didn't want a repeat, so we made the tomatoes a priority. Every tomato was winter sown this year. I didn't do any indoors. The real test will be to see if they actually grow and produce tomatoes in abundance. The neighbor commented that we were "going to have enough tomatoes to feed an army." I just replied with, "I sure hope so!" The tomatoes closer to the bottom of the photo are the "leftovers" that didn't make it into the garden. One solanum spontaneum that will be planted at my parents' house, hopefully tomorrow. There's two Cow's Tit tomatoes that have a place reserved at the T-pole for the clothes line, a couple Tiny Tim tomatoes that will be moved into containers, and a pretzel barrel with an Uluru Ochre tomato - from the Dwarf Project... that one is already in it's permanent location.
All together, I put 46 seedlings and young plants in the ground today. I hand dug each hole, filled it with water, added a pinch of Epsom salt, and then transplanted the tomatoes (and watered them a few more times for good measure). I did run out of bamboo poles in the end there, but I plan to go to Menards tomorrow anyway so I can pick up a few more while I'm there. Comments are closed.
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