Garden 2012, Early Edition

It is the last weekend of February and I'm taking the advice from the garden center tomato class. I planted tomatoes today.

I put two plants (brandywine, valley girl) in the raised beds I built.




I put one plant (supersweet 100) in the self watering container from last year.




I made a couple of adjustments to the swc. I cut several inches off and angled the end of the pvc tube for adding water to the container. It was sometimes difficult last year to fill it last year and I'm hoping those changes will improve things.




The strawberry plants are doing well. I moved them around to make room for the tomatoes. I hope it doesn't mess them up. A would really like to get strawberries this year.




The onions are hanging in there.






We had a freeze with rain a few weekends ago and, despite being covered, they weren't looking so good.  They are finally look a little less straggly.

garden 2011 update

The garden is growing well.



The tomatoes are getting big. I built a trellis around the swc.


Here are the grape/roma (I forget what I bought)


And the other kind (again I forget what I bought)


Frankie climbed up into the fort to check out the neighborhood while I was out weeding & photographing. He's such a funny dog.

Tomatoes

I haven't had much luck with tomato plants the last few years. I think inconsistent watering was a big issue. I decided to try something different this year.

I followed these directions to make a self watering container for tomatoes.

Here is the process:

First bucket with bricks to create a reservoir.


Second bucket with glad container zip-tied in and hole for watering pole


Buckets stacked


Landscape fabric & watering pole added


Adding dirt in layers, watering in between


Planting with some fertilizer


Done


Water running out the weep holes so it doesn't overfill



I don't know if this will work or not but it is worth a try.