Eight Hundred Tomato Plants…
800 tomato plants, most of them heirlooms.
As you can see, Alex is about to use all of our tomato plants as a slip and slide! So much for tomatoes this year. At least it was worth it! Oh relax, tomato lovers, I’m kidding! These are a few short weeks shy of the being put out into the fields. I am so pumped for tomatoes this year. We are trying many new tomatoes this season (Black Prince, Sunkist, Buffalo, and Garden Peach, to name a few) as well as our personal favorites (Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Green Zebra, Sungold). I can practically taste the pico de gallo! And bruchetta! And gazpacho and salsa!
For our climate, tomatoes traditionally go in the field around memorial day. Until then, we keep them cozy and covered at night.
Alison on the tractor.
Before the rain, we also got a chance to till the cover crop under so it can break down in the soil, supplying it with more nutrients. Here I am tilling our lower fields.
May 17, 2010 at 1:32 am
800?! wow. Hope you’ll do a future blogpost on how you use your tomatoes including some of the recipes.