My small container garden

[PaigeJ]

Hello all,

I decided I should come out of lurking and wanted to share my humble tomatoes for 2013 with you. This is my second year growing vegetables for my husband and I. Last year was a valuable learning experience with the extreme heat, spider mites killing off all cucurbits and most tomatoes (except the sun gold, nothing could kill it), and no rain from April - October. This year I'm arming myself with plenty of shade cloth, a better irrigation system, and keeping up better with the aphids and thrips I've seen so far. I'm growing cherokee purple, mortgage lifter, better boy, san marzano, sun gold, and super sweet 100, three plants of each. I've got nine plants in 15 gallon root pouches so far and just ordered more so I can pot up the remaining seven tomatoes this weekend. I just put two (a sun gold and a san marzano) in one of my raised beds yesterday after pulling up all the cabbage. It's a bit too hot for cabbage now

Thanks for looking. I really enjoy it here.






Will need to put some mulch down tomorrow, looks like they handled the transplant OK.


These are all hardening off, waiting to be transplanted this weekend.

[Deborah]

Fabulous ! Your patio garden's alot bigger than mine.
Wow, would my pet rabbits have a blast with that good grass !
I like the whole thing.

[PaigeJ]

Thank you! We have ducks I let out in the grass a little each day but I haven't found a happy medium yet between having them keep things mowed down and completely destroying the grass lol.

[Deborah]

I call one of my rabbits "Duck" because he kind of looks like a duck.
Would love to see pictures.

[BucksCountyGirl]

Wow...looks really good! I love those root pouches for tomatoes. I have about 5 in them, myself this year. Good luck!

[PaigeJ]

Tomatoes grow so fast! I'm always amazed how plants take off when the weather heats up. Here are my tomatoes today. The super sweet 100 and sun gold buds are about to open up. I transplanted the 2nd batch of younger ones into root pouches yesterday. Deborah there's a picture of my ducks for you too

[Deborah]

Tame Mallards?

[PaigeJ]

The brown ones are khaki campbells and the one with the mohawk is a rouen. They're all domesticated breeds derived from mallards

[Sun City Linda]

Paige your tomatoes look great! Ducks and dog look good too. Guessing they probably dont roam together

[Deborah]

Oh ! That explains why I thought they're Mallards.