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.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Tomato starts head outside!

We are going something different this year - in an effort to maximize our sunniest space. The garden bed is loaded with garlic (planted Oct); onions (planted Mar) and carrots (planted Apr). So it's impossible to use the same space for tomatoes - correction - the same dirt for tomatoes.

Instead we are going vertical up the side of the house. We have a combination of indeterminate and determinate plants: Sweets & Yellows (cherries), Brandywine (pinks), Heirlooms (a surprise), Borghese (sun-dried), Siltez (large, early), and Tomatillas. You can see the bar that we'll use to hang the support twine from at about window height.

The indeterminates we are planning to send of single support twines and prune hard to develop only the main line.

The determinate Tomatillas are going up the side in their own netting; but the determinate-Roma, Siletz and Borghese are going in other areas - with traditional staking.

At the other end we are adding zucchini up a tee-pee; and preparing a sunny corner for peppers.
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  1. CLYMay 7, 2011 at 4:46 AM

    Awesome what great ideas!! I am going to let my pots outside for a bit today, Shawn took his to his protected outside site I will post pictures once I get to the farm.

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  2. CLYMay 22, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    How are the tomatoes doing in the pot paradise!

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