May 29th, 2011 Archive

Tomatos and eggplants in the ground

May 29th, 2011 by admin in Garden

Busy day.  Now that the rototiller is working and most of the garden is tilled it was time to plant!  Tomatoes first and then eggplants.  About 35 tomato starts are in the ground.  This year we took a different approach.  Previously  we tied two 52″ cattle panels together with twine at the top then leaned them together.  This gave us frames that were about 4 feet 6 inches tall.

This year we picked up 7 foot T posts from the Grange Co Op and mounted a single panel between two of the posts.  This gives us the full 5 foot panel to grow on and by putting it 8 to 12 inches off the ground gives us much more room at the top to tie the tomatoes to.

Looking forward to another great year