We took a little field trip this morning to a local nursery. All the kids got up early on a Saturday to make it happen. Our intention was to ask a professional gardner how we should proceed with our Fall planting and then to pick up some plants. Well, we got some great advice from our expert, Hugo. He was very helpful and the kids enjoyed ask
ing him questions. The Fall veggies weren't available yet, though. It's still too warm in our area. I'll call next weekend for updates. We're to have even warmer temps next week, so if I had to guess, we're looking at two weeks. But, we'll see.
The kids had a great time exploring (me, too!). We learned from Hugo that when planting tomatoes, don't replant the next harvest of tomatoes in the same spot as before. If you do, then you will have fruitless plants. Good to know!!! Currently, we've got tomatoes in both of the boxes. Next Spring, we'
The kids had a great time exploring (me, too!). We learned from Hugo that when planting tomatoes, don't replant the next harvest of tomatoes in the same spot as before. If you do, then you will have fruitless plants. Good to know!!! Currently, we've got tomatoes in both of the boxes. Next Spring, we'll have one box for tomatoes and one box for the other loot. Then the next season, we'll be able to just swap boxes. For the Fall boxes, we're going to keep our tomatoes in place ... they're still full of flowers and green fruit. We decided this after Hugo took us to a large tomato pot with lots of green fruit to have us compare our tomatoes to his (picture below shows the kids following Hugo to his plant). We'll just have to remember our spacing (not hard with all our pictures!) so we can space the tomato plants differently in the Spring.
I picked up some large stakes to install in the second box to help our leaning tower of tomatoes.
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