Gardening
Related: About this forumThe garden is planted. (Tomatoes are 3-4 feet tall already)
I got everything in as planned. The Wall O' Waters worked out great and I have tiny green tomatoes in the first week of June in New England Zone 6!
I took these photos on May 27:
Photos June 7:
alfie
(522 posts)Looking good. What are your tomato cages made from? How about the red towers? Are they for pole beans? Cukes? Something else? I stake my tomatoes and that works pretty well for me. My pole beans are on a tall hoop made from concrete reinforcing wire. I plant green beans on one side, Christmas limas on the other. They meet at the top and fall over to the other side. I am in zone 6 and have green toms about 2 inches across, a few bell peppers nickle sized. Okra is just now coming up. I will try to post some pix in a few days. This time of year the garden looks good. Chaos reigns by August.
NutmegYankee
(16,308 posts)I have been buying sets of cages from Gardeners Supply Company for about 5 years, So I have quite a few. None have ever rusted out on me. The green towers are the Extra tall Tomato towers and the red ones are another tomato tower that I decided to try. I also use some of the spare towers for pole beans and Lima beans, but that garden, a 6x8 plot, is not in the photos. That out of photo garden also has bush beans.
In the photos I have tomatoes, sunflowers, onions, lettuce, broccoli, peas, squash and zucchini, and peppers.
Part of the reason I went with towers versus staking is I grow Heirlooms that are indeterminate. They can get very vine like by late summer. I usually dead head them at 6 feet high and let them bush out.
alfie
(522 posts)I have found toms 6 feet away from the mother plant hiding in the flower beds. I sometime put stakes a couple of feet from the main plant and tie the vines to them. Some times I just let them rip. By then I am like "do I REALLY have to go pick toms?"
NutmegYankee
(16,308 posts)My entire office practically starts drooling when I start my garden. I bring in a lot of excess and it just disappears in minutes.
alfie
(522 posts)and leave toms on their porches late at night.
libodem
(19,288 posts)My garden space is about 20×20 and I have a sneeking suspicion it was the farmer's driveway prior to the 90's.
Every shovel full of dirt is half gravel.
My garden is like road mix.
NutmegYankee
(16,308 posts)I did raised beds because my garden is built into a hillside, but it makes for some easy gardening compared to standard soil plots.
libodem
(19,288 posts)But in a better part of the yard. I'm grateful that this house came with a garden plot but it is on the west side. The shadow of the house covers it intil noon.