Tomatoes in.

Spent a few hours Saturday and a few today at the garden plots getting some work done.

8 weeks after sowing, I finally got the tomatoes in (sown 03.16.08). 2 weeks ago, the tomato bed was deeply dug, rototilled, amended with fertilizer, lime, and compost, and covered with black plastic to heat up the soil. Saturday I built my tomato mini-greenhouse.

10' long 1/2" SCH20 PVC for the arches. I pounded 8" long, 1" diameter PVC pieces into the soil and slipped in either end of the 1/2" pipe.


Leftover scraps of 6 mil greenhouse plastic made a solid covering for my 8 transplants.

We also got our dahlias in, cut down the cover crop and covered the bed with more soil, and weeded everything. Starting to look pretty good.