Well here it is my Super duper Tomato box siting outside the front of my house.
I have planted 5 different tomato plants in the same box, Going from the front to the back we have
1. front left Centiflor (org England) Said to put out 100 flowers all at once with lil yellow pear or grape fruits. This one should be fun. I planted straight down.
2. ? Croation Pink Brandywine. Productive, large, meaty pink tomato with delicious, complex flavor. Very tender skin. Regular leaf. Rare, only available from Santa Clara Master Gardeners.
3. ? Paul Robeson Black Large fruits with beautiful mahogany color. Wonderful, complex flavor. Taste test winner!
4. ?
5. ? Hazel Mae
Im missing one variety, I know, oh well i should have started this blog about a couple months ago. I started in january building the box, and creating the trellis. I also added a strip of copper tape to the side of the Box to keep out slugs I hate eating a tomato i had to cut out a slug portion. I dug out the ground and estra 6-8 inches and lined the blox with landscapfabric. I then created a drip system for the bottom of the box to encourage deep rooting of the plants using dripline with drippers ev ery foot. Staked under the dirt in a Z pattern with a flushing end coming out on one corner of the box. I then filled with dirt ( 3 bags miracle gro organic garden dirt, three huge potting plus and a bag of peat moss) PreMoistened dirt with a b vitamin root nutrient and clonex root stimulant. Planted all five plants, the back left and front left plants when straight up and down, the midle three all planted with the stringy plant part striped of leaves and layed down in the dirt. Hopefully these 3 shallow rooters will send long tap roots down to the bottom where the drip sytem is set up. Added top drip to root zones of plants especially if they were shallow rooted minding the zone to drip at. Layed down a landscape fabric to reduce soil contamination of leaves and tomatoes. This is my effort to stop the blight.
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