2020: Tomato HOA Rehab journal

KathyDC · June 29, 2020

Love it! I have clay soil here, too, combined with generally terrible soil. This house had been a rental house for decades in a gentrifying area until someone rehabbed it and flipped it, at which point I bought it. I'm pretty sure the back yard was just used as a trash heap for years.

But we're forever digging up glass, and when we dug my current beds we broke a lot of buried glass. It's just everywhere. I've found all kinds of crazy things -- makeup bottles, whiskey and beer bottles, old glass marbles, a skeleton key, even an old square watch face.

Anyway, but tell me how you manage to squeeze so many plants together in that space? 35 tomatoes there! Do you just prune aggressively? What's your methodology for that? Interested because I always want to grow more than I have room for

I have 16 plants this year and had to resist squeezing in more.

June 29, 2020	#18
KathyDC Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Suburban Washington, DC (Zone 7A) Posts: 347	Love it! I have clay soil here, too, combined with generally terrible soil. This house had been a rental house for decades in a gentrifying area until someone rehabbed it and flipped it, at which point I bought it. I'm pretty sure the back yard was just used as a trash heap for years. But we're forever digging up glass, and when we dug my current beds we broke a lot of buried glass. It's just everywhere. I've found all kinds of crazy things -- makeup bottles, whiskey and beer bottles, old glass marbles, a skeleton key, even an old square watch face. Anyway, but tell me how you manage to squeeze so many plants together in that space? 35 tomatoes there! Do you just prune aggressively? What's your methodology for that? Interested because I always want to grow more than I have room for I have 16 plants this year and had to resist squeezing in more.