Just curious...How many tomato plants did you
people plant this year? Are you thinking maybe
you planted too many?
...and he's planning on a bigger garden next year.
The garden is always the same size silly Spook... about 200' by 125' or so. Been there for around 50 years now, I think it would be too much trouble to move it. Quite a tiny garden for our area of the country.
We planted around 100 tomato plants, but only the first 25 or so in the lowest, dampest part of the garden done very well. The second set planted a month later we will get just a few buckets from. The last batch planted a month after the second batch isn't going to do anything. It will just get plowed under for the fall crops. I try to plant most things in batches. That way if the weather goes nuts maybe something will make anyway.
On a serious note; MFB has been hungry. I know what it feels like to go days without eating. Being poor, uneducated, unskilled and too proud to ask for help tends to be a bad thing sometimes. When I moved back to the family farm I promised myself I'd never, EVER be in that place again. I do plant too much. I admit it, but I'd rather have too much as too little. If we have a good year like this year, we preserve all we can, sell some and give away some to friends, family and people we hear of that are in need. Some years I've gave away as much as half the produce we raised, other years we don't make enough to get through the winter ourselves. Farming is a crap shoot, but it's the only life I know.
But if you can get your golf cart outta the mud, you are welcome to take all the tomatoes you want. Em's not the only one getting sick of them.
I'll even help you pick them.
