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Gardening

alfie

(527 posts)

1. Neat garden!

Reply to NutmegYankee (Original post)

Thu Jun 9, 2016, 08:11 PM

Jun 2016

Looking good. What are your tomato cages made from? How about the red towers? Are they for pole beans? Cukes? Something else? I stake my tomatoes and that works pretty well for me. My pole beans are on a tall hoop made from concrete reinforcing wire. I plant green beans on one side, Christmas limas on the other. They meet at the top and fall over to the other side. I am in zone 6 and have green toms about 2 inches across, a few bell peppers nickle sized. Okra is just now coming up. I will try to post some pix in a few days. This time of year the garden looks good. Chaos reigns by August.

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The garden is planted. (Tomatoes are 3-4 feet tall already) [View all] NutmegYankee Jun 2016 OP

Neat garden! alfie Jun 2016 #1

I purchased the tomato towers. NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #2

I know what you mean about late summer tom vines alfie Jun 2016 #3

I have the luck of having a lot of "customers". NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #4

I've been known to sneak over to neighbors... alfie Jun 2016 #5

Fabulous! libodem Jun 2016 #6

Is it possible to bring in dirt and build large raised beds? NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #7

I've thought about raised beds libodem Jun 2016 #8