Plumcots ripe this week. Aren't they beautiful. This is their first year to bear fruit. They are really good, though as with plums, the flesh is sweet and the peeling tart. I hope to sell most of them and make jam with the rest. The "Methley" plum tree is in the background and "Rubrum" is past that.
This is my classic bed that works so well for me: pole beans intermixed with cucumbers and marigolds. Everything is just starting to climb and it will be a few more weeks before cucumbers are on the vines and July before the "Rattlesnake" pole beans begin to bear. The marigolds just take up space where the emitters lie on the irrigation line and keep things pretty. Beans are on the big pole teepees and cucumbers on the smaller structures. See beehives in the background.
This is the tomato bed. Tommy put up the cages and poles. I planted and keep them trimmed and tied up. I have 48 plants in this bed with a deep straw mulch. Most of them are heirlooms, but I always have a few "Big Beefs" and "Better Boys" in there for backup in case of blight. The"Roma" tomatoes are in another bed with more "Sungold" cherry tomatoes.
Here is succession one and two of sweet corn. To the right is the potato row which is now in the process of being dug up as needed. I just got done applying fish meal to the second planting and hilling up the rows to avoid lodging. It all comes and goes so quickly.
This is my classic bed that works so well for me: pole beans intermixed with cucumbers and marigolds. Everything is just starting to climb and it will be a few more weeks before cucumbers are on the vines and July before the "Rattlesnake" pole beans begin to bear. The marigolds just take up space where the emitters lie on the irrigation line and keep things pretty. Beans are on the big pole teepees and cucumbers on the smaller structures. See beehives in the background.
This is the tomato bed. Tommy put up the cages and poles. I planted and keep them trimmed and tied up. I have 48 plants in this bed with a deep straw mulch. Most of them are heirlooms, but I always have a few "Big Beefs" and "Better Boys" in there for backup in case of blight. The"Roma" tomatoes are in another bed with more "Sungold" cherry tomatoes.
Here is succession one and two of sweet corn. To the right is the potato row which is now in the process of being dug up as needed. I just got done applying fish meal to the second planting and hilling up the rows to avoid lodging. It all comes and goes so quickly.
