Nate was a big help with the twine, helping me run it through our rigging.
I can't wait until stakin' tomatoes can be steak and tomatoes! Yum, yum!
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Stakin' Tomatoes
Hard to believe, but the tallest of the plants is as tall as I am - boy these things sure have taken off. Yesterday was a little gusty and one of them decided to flop over - thankfully there was hardly any damage, but it was their way of telling me they'd like to get some extra support. So this morning Nater Gater and I took a trip to Lowes and picked up a 1" by 6" by 8' board and I ripped it into 1 inch by 8 foot stakes. I got out my rubber mallet and stepladder and pounded them into the ground next to my four beauties. I then stringed them up with some nylon twine.
Nate was a big help with the twine, helping me run it through our rigging.
MM
Nate was a big help with the twine, helping me run it through our rigging.
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MM your maters look really great. They seem very happy in that Chalstin' sun! It's going to be a close race for sure!
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ReplyDeleteMike, Looking good on the maters. They are really growing tall and lots of maters for the Nater. I hope they can keep going and avoid any further browning. I am wondering if the plastic containers has something to do with the disease. The only plants that got it on mine where the ones in the containers. The plants in the garden have none.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work - we should all have maters soon.
I don't think it's the plastic, since the buckets I used are food grade, and there's a whole community of SIPpy planters out there following the same convention - if it were an inherent problem with the approach, I suspect I would have come across that in my research, but who knows.
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