Channeling Sophie's Garden: Growing Up!

Channeling Sophie's Garden

Carol's garden is in Port Hope MI, in a rural, lakeside community. She has lots of space and expertise. Laura' garden is located in Centralia WA, in a small suburban yard challenged by access to sun and space. Debbie's garden is in Deckerville MI, in a smaller rural yard, where rules are ignored.

Each of us is applying what we learned at at our mother's and grandmother's knees in space once owned by Sophie Mayer Birg Harter on Rangeline Road. Sophie immigrated to Detroit in 1908 from Heufeld, a once German (Donauschwaben) community of Hungary. Her hope lives on.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Growing Up!

Set up the nets and cords for the tomatoes and beans to climb. Everything feels secure - we have them taunt and wrapped top and bottom - but since I haven't grown tomatoes stakes this way before, just waiting to see how it works. For now, we're just spotting and removing suckers.

First set of nets is for the pole beans - and the second for the tomatilla plants. They are a monster of the plant, I read, so we have a large net to support them.

The rest of the tomatoes here are indeterminate, so we're hoping to keep them staked to the cords.

Took this picture late afternoon when the tree to the west shades the area, but it gets a good amount of sun (6-7 hours in June/July) IF we have sun!

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