This Memorial Day weekend, we focused on....tomatoes! And tomato containers. The original goal was to add two plants to our existing two (a Brandywine and a Cherokee Purple), which I planted about a month ago and which have gotten to be about 4' tall. Only one fruit so far, and they've been experiencing blossom drop, but I ordered some special blossom set spray from Burpee that everyone seemed to like, so here's hoping.
We started a Pike's where the plants were two for one -- which was a sign of the plant quality -- had to look hard to find good plants but ended up with a Celebrity, a Big Boy, a Better Boy and something else. Then went over to Hasting's, which is where we should have started. From there, we departed with a Mr. Stripey (Alan's choice), a Yellow Jubilee, a Yellow Pear, and a Grape Tomato. All went into various containers, including a reuse of one of our cat litter containers to attempt an upside down tomato plant, which were all the rage in the internet forums. That was yesterday's DIY adventure. Today's was to create a homemade self-watering container.
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