Sunday, February 24, 2013

coffee & tomatoes


here are the tomatoes i have planted so far:
1. creole 2. better bush 3. bush goliath 4. lemon boy 5. arkansas traveler 6. black krim 7. black prince 8. homestead 9. german johnson 10. striped german 

i am at this tomato thing again…I swore off my tomato farmer status last year…the drought, the stink bugs, the texas hail storms, the water restrictions…I swore it off…then I had a bunch of trader joe ‘s coffee cans…started thinking…give these plants a good home, a good start /w/ some organic soil, epsom salt, rock phosphate and spread coffee grounds around them(saved by the hipster kids at local coffee shop)…just maybe i’ll have better luck than previous years…all the varieties i have planted so far have favorable reviews…can tolerate the heat, the humidity, the drought and for the most part are blight resistant…i know i am taking a chance by planting them in february  but they can easily be replaced if we get one of our freak texas freezes…i have also elevated them in pots that I hammered out the bottom…and wine boxes where i removed bottom slats…fingers crossed for some luck in the hope of tasty organic tomatoes…this summer, 2013!!!

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