Yay!!!  We got our tomato plants planted into the garden.  It seems like a small project, but it took us two days.

 

The soil was already prepped with mushroom compost and eggshells.  But then we had to dig deep holes, plant the two-liter bottles, plant the tomato plants, then secure the cages.  

 

I know I’ve told you this before, but it is such a cool system that I learned about 40 years ago from our friend Alma Barrett, that I’m going to tell you again. 

 

The two-liter bottle is planted upside down with the small opening deep in the soil.  We add a little gravel to keep the opening from getting clogged.  Then the tomato rootball is placed next to the opening of the bottle.  Tomatoes can be planted up to their top two sets of leaves.  That way all those tiny hairs on the stem grow roots.  And the rootball is deep, getting watered through the bottle.  We don’t get water on the leaves (which tomatoes hate) and the roots get deep watered (which they love.)

 

And all those brown leaves?  Free mulch.  What’s not to love?

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!