The garden is now fully planted. All 12 seedbeds have seeds or plants in them. I still have some plants in the greenhouse, but I will slide them in as current crops are harvested and space becomes available.
Above is a picture down the length of the garden. At the far end are the tomatoes, planted in the two seedbeds that I covered with black weed-blocking fabric. It's not plastic, but a fibery fabric that water can pass through. It absorbs sunlight, warms the soil, and makes tomato roots happy.
I have put 73 tomato plants in the ground. Yes, I know. That's a crazy amount of plants. I have a problem. I have put in 14 different varieties, one of which was a unknown volunteer tomato that came from some compost I used to fertilize some other seedlings. Here's the cheat sheet I created as I was transplanting them.
Most of these are types that I have not grown before, so I'm expecting a few surprises. I'm happy with the mix of different varieties, and I'm really looking forward to the peak of the season. These all went in the ground a week or two ago. Tonight we were out in the yard and Angelia noticed a small green fruit on one of the Park Early Hybrids. Many of the tomato plants are putting out flowers. I see a lot of canning in my future. Salsa anyone?
78 tomatoes, 90 cucumber plants. Maybe I'm not so crazy after all. Or we both are. Either way, we're both going to have a lot of veggies. Thanks for commenting...I look forward to hearing about your crazy cucumber harvest this summer.
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