One Tomato, Dead Tomato

Not sure what happened to this hapless tomato but it just did not make it!


Our other tomatoes look great though. You win some, you lose some.

In other news, today we planted potatoes! Yukon gold, red and sweet potatoes.


We used a similar method as we did last year:
1. Cut off portions of the potato with several "eye sprouts",
2. Plant the potato chunks with the "eye sprouts" facing up
3. Cover with dirt and mulch.

Our potatoes did well last year so I'm hoping we are just as successful this year - particularly with those sweets!

Up next:
1. More planting (flowers, herbs and beans)
2. Figure out our watering system

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Send Good Sweet Potato Thoughts (Part 2)

Keep 'em coming because I think they are working!

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Send good sweet potato thoughts!

When we planted the garden we left one row vacant in case we thought of any other veggies we'd like to cultivate. Adam bought me some sweet potato plants that were on sale (you might be able to tell why) to make up for the fact that we planted so many potato-potatoes and we made use of this empty row. After planting, we watered and fertilized the puny guys with the fish emulsion.

I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

We also planted some mint because the mint we started from seeds didn't quite make it through all the rain. I planted some tarragon seeds and I'm in hopes it actually grows. I sort of threw them into the dirt on a prayer but I don't have a lot of faith they will make it.