Saturday, May 26, 2018

Tomato planting!

Twenty of the 22 tomatoes are in! I don't seem to have any Black Beauty tomatoes in my Burlington batch and I can't remember if there was a germination problem or whether they're just hiding in my Craftsbury trays.

One Speckled Roman has some weirdness with its foliage. I should have probably culled it but it looks more like heat/water stress than anything so I'm just going to keep an eye on it.

The western most row has 4 Dora and 3 Druzba tomatoes. The middle row has 3 Opalka, 2 Heidi and room for the 2 Black Beauty, and the eastern row has 3 Red House Free Standing, 2 Speckled Romans and 3 Baylor Paste. That row got one extra because I planted the RHFS 18 inches apart rather than 24. All rows are listed north to south.

20 of 22 tomatoes going in the Intervale!
20 of 22 tomatoes going in the Intervale!

I pulled the bottom branches off from each plant and planted each one a few inches deeper than they were in the pots. If you click on the picture to make it bigger they look a little short and bedraggled but they'll recover and have healthier roots in the long run.

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