Pink Croation

Green tomatoes

this will be #1

The first red tomato but not ready yet

July tomatoes are huge but no reds yet

Big beefy stripes on this green tomato

My first tomatos of the season in my Tomato box!

Tomato blossoms are like little yellow starbursts

All the tomatos are reaching past the second and last set of support timbers,
Upward & Onward to the newly installed line

Corn Onions and peppers .. or how i round out the rest of my garden

My co planted Corn, with white and green beans. and A red sunflower
 

Jalepeno and onions coplanted, also Green Eggplants. Neither the peppers or the  eggplants have being doing wellthis season.  The weather this year has been wet and rainy all the way into june.

 

The front of my corn patch

 

Some tomato pics taken on june 6th

 

 

Just past the second Sets of boards.We had a bunch of growth last week because it was finally hitting the 80 f

 

Centiflor Tomatos blossoms look alot like Sweet 100's

red sunflower and son

 

 

 

 

thursday may 27th Pouring rain with a chance of thunder

well the tomato still look happy so we will jsut hope this rain isnt for too long

Rainy Tuesday the 25th of May

Maybe i should just learn aquaponics

Barrelponics or Aquaponics

How can i turn my small pond into a tilapia farm ?

Upside down Tomatos

Check out some upside tomato pics and article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/garden/20tomato.html

May 17th Drizzle rain

It should be 80 degrees everyday right now
but its about 60 today, just hoping for warm weather!

May14th rain again?

What a year to test a gardeners resolve against the elements.

The perfect Tomato Box

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.