All I know is that I can't compete whatsoever with Eddie, but we have a little tiny garden with some tomatoes and a couple basil plants. The variety is called Caspian Pink - they are a pink heart shaped tomato and they get red after you pick them. They are a fabulously delicious open-pollinated (not stable enough to be heirloom) tomato.
The plants are 8.5 feet tall now with the hi-tech trellising system that I made out of old stakes, cheap twine, and cable ties. Cable ties are the greatest thing since sliced bread if you never knew that. I had some old landscape fabric around so I made the setup super low maintenance with virtually no weeds. And I tested out one plant with cardboard instead of the landscape fabric, and that seems to be working out pretty well. There's 7 tomato plants in a pretty small area (8 ft x 6 ft approx), which only gets sun until about 1:00 each day. The plant in the middle has, sadly, just about died.
The toughest thing we've had to deal with is the neighborhood ground hog who has seemed to develop a taste for tomatoes. We wanted to save the seeds of the earliest tomatoes, but the ground hog had other plans for those tomatoes. We haven't seen any damage in the past few days, so hopefully the tomatoes are too high up for him now, and he's maybe found greener pastures elsewhere. The bags were put there to scare the groundhog away when they hit the rustling plastic, but that didn't seem to work..
It has been a much better season than last year so far as we had so much rain last year that the tomatoes were splitting in extreme fashion. This year, no problems so far..
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And here's our huge bounty so far :
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The plants are 8.5 feet tall now with the hi-tech trellising system that I made out of old stakes, cheap twine, and cable ties. Cable ties are the greatest thing since sliced bread if you never knew that. I had some old landscape fabric around so I made the setup super low maintenance with virtually no weeds. And I tested out one plant with cardboard instead of the landscape fabric, and that seems to be working out pretty well. There's 7 tomato plants in a pretty small area (8 ft x 6 ft approx), which only gets sun until about 1:00 each day. The plant in the middle has, sadly, just about died.
The toughest thing we've had to deal with is the neighborhood ground hog who has seemed to develop a taste for tomatoes. We wanted to save the seeds of the earliest tomatoes, but the ground hog had other plans for those tomatoes. We haven't seen any damage in the past few days, so hopefully the tomatoes are too high up for him now, and he's maybe found greener pastures elsewhere. The bags were put there to scare the groundhog away when they hit the rustling plastic, but that didn't seem to work..
It has been a much better season than last year so far as we had so much rain last year that the tomatoes were splitting in extreme fashion. This year, no problems so far..
And here's our huge bounty so far
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