Self-watering container garden update: Oh, deer
I’m assuming it’s the deer who’ve deluded denuded (hah!! oops!!) my tomato plants’ lower portions. You’d think deer would get the stuff up high as well as the lower leaves. They don’t seem to be interested in the tomatoes, just the leaves. The basil and pepper remain untouched. I’m making a big batch of roasted [...]
Update on the DIY earth box type garden
Everything in my self-watering containers is doing great! Check out the nice harvest from Thursday. The Brandywine tomatoes are averaging about 11oz each and none are splitting. I usually have a lot of split tomatoes because of uneven watering. With these boxes, the moisture is controlled and consistent. A few of the Sun Cherry tomatoes [...]
First fruits of our 2009 garden
I plucked the first cherry tomatoes today! Sun Cherry is this variety and I’d had it in my head that they were a red variety; they’re decidedly orange, however, a warm orange. They could be any color for all I care, for they’re incredibly sweet, especially popped off the vine and directly into your mouth. [...]
Already have a tomato!
We already have a tomato on one of our patio tomato hybrids. I can’t take any credit for it, though. It was already there when I bought the cellpack of three little plants. I am going to remove it and let the stressed little seedling put its energy into developing a healthy root system in [...]
