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NutmegYankee

(16,308 posts)
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 06:34 PM Jun 2016

The 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:


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The garden is planted. (Tomatoes are 3-4 feet tall already) (Original Post) NutmegYankee Jun 2016 OP
Neat garden! alfie Jun 2016 #1
I purchased the tomato towers. NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #2
I know what you mean about late summer tom vines alfie Jun 2016 #3
I have the luck of having a lot of "customers". NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #4
I've been known to sneak over to neighbors... alfie Jun 2016 #5
Fabulous! libodem Jun 2016 #6
Is it possible to bring in dirt and build large raised beds? NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #7
I've thought about raised beds libodem Jun 2016 #8

alfie

(522 posts)
1. Neat garden!
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:11 PM
Jun 2016

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)
2. I purchased the tomato towers.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:27 PM
Jun 2016

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)
3. I know what you mean about late summer tom vines
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:42 PM
Jun 2016

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)
4. I have the luck of having a lot of "customers".
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 07:49 PM
Jun 2016

My entire office practically starts drooling when I start my garden. I bring in a lot of excess and it just disappears in minutes.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
6. Fabulous!
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:17 PM
Jun 2016

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)
7. Is it possible to bring in dirt and build large raised beds?
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 09:29 AM
Jun 2016

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)
8. I've thought about raised beds
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 02:18 PM
Jun 2016

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.

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