South Louisiana Drip Garden

[Cajun_gardens]

I'd like to share my garden with yall.

Im using the Burpee heavy duty XL cages with extensions installed - tomatoes do grow that tall down here.

I have 17 tomato plants, 1 straightneck squash, cucumbers, red bell peppers, lettuce, spinach, texas sweet onions, sweet basil, strawberries, and 2 varieties of watermelons along with marigolds to attract pollinators and keep nematodes away. I know creole and amelia grow well as I've grown them before ... and the Creole was developed by LSU to grow in this super retarded humid hot environment down here. I like the flavor of the Amelia ..and didnt split on me last year while being grown in a half barrel container.

The cherokee purple's I also grew last year in containers. They didn't fare off well until it became swamp nuts hot and hence exploded with growth and blooms. Thus far - it is my favorite tomato to simply eat off the vine.

The others ... well .. pretty much a shot in the dark. I know the big zach can grow some monsters and have many ginormous flower sets and one big tomato growing near the middle of the plant. Rapunzel looked attractive in the photos I've seen. Was told by the gardener in Cali to grow it in a container. No way ... im gonna grow it big. The Solar Flare simply looked good ... Cherokee Chocolate - never grown one.

I'm using dynagro with a 2 gallon ez flow injector. Yeah yeah ..its not organic, but i work offshore and am gone often. Organic needs instant attention often ..something I can't devote enough time to. Besides - I've always had phenomenal results with it. Watering is 4xs a day 4 minutes each time.

I've already harvested several straigtneck squash .. and one of my red bell pepper plants must have a dozen peppers growing - one of which is starting to ripen.

The watermelons - well ... they are a looong looong way off but are just starting to send out their feelers ..

Cucumbers wont be long if some dang bees show up.

Week 5 photo

garden and a shot of rapunzel

closest row left to right:

Cherokee Purple, Cherokee Purple, Creole, Creole, Some jumbo something, Early Girl

Middle Row:

Amelia, Amelia, A yellow something, Black Krim, Roma, Hearty Cherry

Far Row:

Rapunzel, Big Zach, Solar Flare, Cherokee Chocolate, Early Girl