I am dragging. I managed to finish my new tomato garden bed and get the tomatoes in there planted today. More work to get it done than I thought it would be. But it is all done and planted. I am so very, very pleased with it.
First picture after putting all the bricks around and starting the posts. I pounded them in enough to stand up here but I finished pounding them later.
Next picture it already looks like a garden. Pounded it the posts until they are all even. Put newsapaper on top of grass and dumped each bag of compost in each section were you had seen it laid out in the first picture. Then leveled it all out and set white plant stakes were I will place each plant.
Last picture tomatoes all planted. They are actually just in the compost and on top of the newspaper laid over the grass. So if your planning to do this, you have to use the small plants in those cell packs, not the big plants in the single bigger pots that you can get.
Done and it looks sooo good to me. Going to use the Florida Weave method of "staking". In case your wondering about the weaving the plants are too small to start the weave. But basicly looking down the long way of four. Tie twine to end stake and pull tightly. Go around the outside of the first plant and then run the twine along the inside of the second. At the stake pull tightly and wind around twice then keep going and then come back along the opposite way from that already done. So each plant ends up being held by the two sides of the twine.
I have this set up so that I can put low early season veggies like radish and lettuce in the middle there between the two rows of tomatoes. They will be harvested by the time the tomato plants get large. I should have had lettuce and radished planted already but what can I say. I am doing the best I can.
Of course I don't have any lettuce plants or radish seeds but no big deal. The nurseries have plenty and I will get some. Also want more peas and aome pole bean seeds. I always start my own beans. It is so easy. Peas are easy too but I will go with more plants because it is late already. Also going to put some dill seeds to make dill plants.
I am so happy to be veggie gardening again even if my veggies are planted all around the garden in various places instead of in one plot like they used to be.
