The salsa garden has come in and boy oh boy is the eating good. We have a full shelf of tomatoes and are harvesting 3-5 new ones per day.
The garden doesn't look anything like it did in March either, as many of the tomato plants are now 6' high and growing. We've used no fertilizer, no plant food or any other stimulants, just cheap Wal Mart dirt piled into raised rock beds. It works.
Scroll back to March 12 to see what the garden looked like when we first put it in....
I have hundreds of green tomatoes and lots of budding pepper plants. Unfortunately, your season is way ahead of mine. Up here in the NW tomatoes don't ripen till late August. They look good.
We had so many volunteer tomato plants from the worm castings which I couldn't bear to pull out that we have too many again. But, they are starting to come on very well. In one baby maple tree site, there is a volunteer tomato with egg size greenies ripening and a watermelon vine!
I'm trying some different things this year: I broke a plant off just above the roots; there were little knobs on it which I put into a pot and it is growing. Took a little longer, but it is coming on. I put another one into a big milk jug of water to see if those little knobs on the stalk would root. They did. I don't know if it will make tomatoes, but it lives. I like the smell of the vines!
Sun-ripened, home grown tomatoes are the way to go!
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