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| Heirloom Brandywine Tomato Plants |
I try to use regional heirlooms as much as possible in my garden. These are Brandywine tomatoes and are a wonderful, large, soft skinned, fleshy variety. I've also grown the yellow, orange, and black Brandywines and saved seeds from each. This year I didn't get anything started inside so I just hopped over to the local garden supply center and picked up a six pack. I actually got the smallest plants that they had because I knew that the weather wouldn't be right for planting for weeks. By that time, they would be all sold out and I would have missed my chance to have some this year. Living on the mountain puts me 2 weeks behind those that live in the valley. My season also ends 2 weeks before theirs.
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| The State Of My Raised Bed Kitchen Garden |
My poor kitchen garden has been so neglected this year. Here is the state of the bed when I went out to plant my tomatoes this morning. What a mess!! The children had been dumping grass clippings into this bed instead of taking to the chicken run. I'm not sure if it was hurting or helping things here. It was definitely 100 times easier to turn over than the bed that had pine shavings in it. When I turned the soil over it was the beautiful black dirt that I have grown to love. Weeding this bed turned out to be no problem because the soil was so loose.
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| Raised Kitchen Garden Bed After Weeding and Turning the Soil |
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| Happy Brandywine Tomato Plant in It's New Bed |
The box that I chose to put my tomatoes in this year is 6' by 4'. That gave me exactly the space I needed for the entire 6 pack of plants. This is a very stocky plant that bears heavy fruit in abundance, so I will need to add supports as the plants get bigger. For now they just need watered..... and for the chickens to stay out of them.
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| Raised Bed Kitchen Garden Planted With Heirloom, Brandywine Tomatoes |
I'm very pleased with how this bed has turned out. Now to tame the jungle that's growing in the other beds.
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