Pop decided to try John Pratt's approach to growing tomatoes. He put new landscape timbers in the tomato bed, which was a big project. It really looks nice. He added a truckload of mulch and then rototilled it all in.
Then Pop divided the garden into four rows, with "walking paths" in between. He laid the new irrigation tape, which will water the tomatoes at their base, which is what they love.
The next step was to add time-release fertilizer.
He then covered the garden with plastic, put mulch between the rows, and in this picture he's planting 28 Roma tomatoes for our family to enjoy.
The next step was to put in stakes, which he'll use to support the plants as they grow. Notice Mom's dahlias at the end of the bed.
The finished project. We have a total of 42 plants. With luck, we'll have more produce than we can use.
1 comment:
Amazing! We can't to come a try them out.
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