TOMATO GARDEN

Posted By on July 24, 2011

Those of you who live on a farm and have REAL GARDENS are probably going to be raising your eyebrows at this……

BUT I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT MY TOMATO GARDEN!  I am a grown up – relatively speaking – and I have tried to grow tomatoes all of my life – in EIGHT DIFFERENT STATES and I have never been successful.  Either the birds, or the squirrels, or the bugs have enjoyed every tomato crop that I have attempted to nurture.  In some cases there was not enough sun on my patio  (Kansas, Missouri, Washington, and Wisconsin)  and in Atlanta, Georgia the rabbits ate my tomatoes.

OH YES – and then there were the CALIFORNIA YEARS when the mold and white bugs ate the tomatoes.  I didn’t try to grow tomatoes in Colorado – that was the state where I was not successful trying to grow an avocado tree.  In Colorado and Georgia, I counted 27 avocado trees that I tried to grow by putting the seeds in a glass of water elevated by tooth picks…..no luck!  I was good at producing moldy avocado pits but no trees.

BUT I HAVE DISCOVERED UPSIDE DOWN TOMATO PLANTING IN VIRGINIA AND MY DH AND I JUST ATE SOME VERY DELICIOUS RED AND CHERRY YELLOW TOMATOES…….it just excites me to eat a tomato that tastes like a tomato….the ones from the store do not!!!!  I LOVE TO EAT A TOMATO OFF THE VINE JUST LIKE AN APPLE!

LOOK AT MY TOMATO GARDEN…..I have three in pots on the back porch and two hanging planters full of tomato plants…..one planter with RED TOMATOES and one  planter with YELLOW CHERRY TOMATOES.   The hanging planters are on hooks away from the porch railing so the squirrels and birds aren’t able to reach them.

The tomato plants are hanging two stories up from the ground so that the deer and the turtles in the back yard on the ground cannot reach them.   In fact,  to get our tomatoes picked from the  hanging planters, I have to stand on the back porch at the top and bend the planters down so that my DH in the yard below can reach up and pick the tomatoes.

Sometimes I think that I really should live on a farm.

Maybe when I retire and get my BED AND BREAKFAST I will have it on a farm – and I will  grow tomatoes and serve TOMATO PIE to my B and B guests for breakfast!!!!!!  Some day I will have my avocado trees too…..it is on my BUCKET LIST!   I truly think I could live on tomatoes and avocados!  Where can I buy a B and B on a farm near the ocean – or in the mountains would be fun too!

And, yes, the tomatoes taste better when they are grown in hippopotamus and swan planters………….:)  I bought the hippo planters in California – but the SWAN PLANTERS (yes, there is another one) were in the  FRONT yard (REALLY) when we bought the house in Virginia!!!

COLOR ME HAPPY!

 

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