It appeared we may have one potato plant coming up, but a quick search online indicated it was only a weed. We didn't want to buy a huge bag of seed potatoes for this small experiment so we just let some from the grocery store grow 'eyes.' These don't seem to be growing, but when I've had to put old potatoes in the compost bin they've grown in there before. Oh well, we tried and may try something different next year.
The tomato plants, meanwhile, have outgrown their covered cages but have not been vandalized by any critters. The main problem is when the fruit is growing, so we needed a new plan to keep them protected.
The old wooden ladder, some stakes and bird netting is what we came up with. Hopefully it will be effective. Note the two sunflowers on the right.
4 comments:
Your tomato plants are looking very good, hopefully you will get a great crop. Our spuds are doing well and I’m not sure what we did to achieve that although a lot of old and well composted material went into the raised bed earlier this year. I rarely have any success with sunflowers, only the once that I recall.
Thank you, they are cherry tomatoes. I'm not a big fan of raw tomatoes but my wife loves these in her salads.
Looking good!
- BW
Thanks, they're not just taller now but much wider.
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