70 Tomato Plant Set Yesterday -pix

[bp fick]

Set 70 tomato plants yesterday. Will set another 70 in three weeks. The seeds were planted March 15th. The hot caps will stay on until June 1.

 

[Egon]

What kind of Tomatoes and what will you do with them?

In about two or three weeks we may be able to plant Tomatoes here.:thumbsup:

 

[bp fick]

Planting three varieties this year. Roma, Heinz, and Better Boy.
This early planting is quite risky, but I have to get a jump and this is a calculated gamble. The caps can protect down to 28 degrees. Below that, they will not. Thus, holding back 4-6 dozen or so until later on.

We market garden. I have 400 onion sets yet to plant, one little onion at a time! 200 broccoli, 200 cauliflower, 100 cabbage the same way.

 

[oldnslo]

The Wabbits and dear are gonna love you

 

[bp fick]

The Wabbits and dear are gonna love you

You see the fencing, right? Two kinds. One chicken wire and the other is the new light weight plastic knit netting. The coyotes get most the rabbits now, so I am grateful to the pack for that. Sincerely. Used to be over run. As for the deer, well let's just say Beaver Creek has about 200 deer, at least, for every man, woman and child. Geeeeeesh!!

 

[bp fick]

And.... the old backdoor varmint gun.

 

[Egon]

Thanks for the information bp.

 

[Ford850]

Do you straw mulch the tomatoes or cage them upright?

 

[ToadHill]

I like your hot houses. I have a business down the road that sells water in 5 gallon plastic bottles and when they get scratched up they throw them out. I get them and cut the bottom out and use them as hot houses. It gives me a chance to get stuff in the ground a lot earlier than my neighbors.

 

[bp fick]

The Heinz is a commercially developed variety that is a field bush.
The Better Boy benefits from cages or stakes.
I do not normally straw or mulch.