Full speed ahead!
The girls and I started in a foggy morning by planting seven Siberian tomatoes in the front yard. The plants themselves had just shown their first true leaves, so these are not really well developed seedlings, but what the heck. <grin> The plants are protected from the direct sun and cold with milk jugs which have had the bottoms cut out of them. In this planting, honestly, I have them closer together than I usually plant these, but I have staggered them over the bed instead of just doing a straight line of cages so there is some room for them to sprawl. This is a type that does not form a central leader stalk, and instead grows like a low shrub. The low cages support the branches and the plants will get a bit intertwined.
From there we went to the Minnetonka garden. The endeavors there were a bit more industrious. We first prepped a bed and planted ten Canabec Super tomatoes, which is a small, early, determinate tomato. From that we then did 4 beds of Grunt’s Autumn Delight popcorn, a couple of hills of squash (just to see if they will germinate this early), a bed of Purple Blauchakker soup peas, and a bed of onions. Total time was about 3 hours for all of that.
Nearly as soon as we had arrived at the Minnetonka garden, the sun finished burning off the fog, leaving us with a sunny humid day. It seemed appropriate to celebrate the completed work with ice cream cones. Not bad for a March gardening day.
They have grow up a bit since the photo I took last year at the same ice cream counter.
