NOTE: Garden tips on planting our giant tomato plants and how to tamp the soil over your seeds for better germination. Free garden ties, clay soil, staggering your planting times, a special made hoe, and the first 3 drip lines installed. Finally it got dry enough to start our garden. We did this over the Memorial Day weekend. My bride and I planted 39 tomato plants and 40′ of cukes.
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Those tomatoes look great. Thank you for sharing.
WOW, that is a lot of tomatoes! And a lot of work. I am growing the 'Market More' for the first time this year. It was recommended for Wisconsin. Thank you for the handy tips.
Navajo you are such a wealth of knowledge. Good luck with the garden, you have it setup really nice. Even have a Bride for doing weeding 😉 -Mark
Looks good. You got a plan man. Good job!
Great tips Bernard. I need to make a hoe like that. Very creative idea there!
Chuck
Mrs. Navajopa made another cameo. Yea!
That's a beautiful garden spot. I'm trying to get my soil worked in like yours. I'd be happy with 8 inches of good stuff above the clay. But I need to step up the addition of organic matter and compost. It's just hard to find that stuff around here. I might have to go into the woods and start raking leaves. 🙂
That clay looks about like what we got here minus the ever present limestones all through it! Very impressive tomato patch you got, and the irrigation too. Like that hoe you made, and thanks for the tamping tip. Never planted tomatoes from seed straight into the ground yet, but your demonstration makes it look easy. Thanks!
We had a few days of mid 90s as a relief from our mid 100's these last few days. But it was too short. We will soon be pushing 110 plus.
Compacting your soil makes all the difference.
How long have you been growing tomatoes?I guess you've really gone this far and I truly admire you for being a green thumb! Anyway, I am so thankful learning some reliable ideas regarding on this crop.
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Time was never wasted on watching this informative video, because I have really learned useful tricks on growing tomatoes in a very productive way. I am really glad for sharing these tips!
Hello I am down here in south Georgia, I have, what appears to be a sandy red clay dirt here, will tomatoes grow in that type soil or do I need to supplement with top soil Pete moss compost.
The birds get my seeds when I plant like that.