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@kingfisher68 I usually plant in early May and start getting fruit in mid July, earlier with the smaller varieties.

@AnneMacro I highly recommend making the investment. They work really well for soil like that.

@kingfisher68 Tomato varieties I like are Mikado, Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, Speckled Roman, Blush. But I also love trying heirlooms I've never heard of, so perhaps 1/4 of the spots go to those. There's nothing better than harvesting a big basket of different tomatoes and eating slabs of them with fresh mozzarella and an expensive balsamic. Pure joy.

Here's my tomato waterer in action. The screening attached to the wine-bottle funnel prevents insects and garden debris from getting trapped inside the PVC tube. #tomatoes #water #gardening #allotment

This morning I prepped the spots at my allotment where the tomatoes will go. The soil becomes rock-hard clay at approximately 6", so I use a posthole digger to make an 18" hole that gets filled with compost. And to make watering easier and more effective, I have PVC pipes, capped at the bottoms, that have 1/8" holes along their lengths so that I can quickly slosh in a bunch of water and let it slowly percolate to the roots. A bit of work to make these watering funnels but the tomatoes develop very deep roots and are fine if ignored on a hot day. #tomatoes #gardening #allotment #soil #vegetables #wine #roots

Just a reminder that gardening centers will happily sell you plants such as Pelargonium citrosum that are supposedly able to repel mosquitoes. But don't be suckered. No plant has that ability even if thousands of Pinterest pages insist it's true. #mosquitoes #gardening #gardens #plants

@richrollgardener Really envious of your soil thermometer.

Flowers on my 'Belle of Georgia' dwarf peach (Prunus persica). Squirrels ate every single fruit last year so this season I'm going to encase them in stainless steel mesh bags. Might even use a finer mesh plastic bag inside to prevent peach-loving moths from ovipositing. #flowers #blumen #peach #prunus #tree #gardening

@ai6yr papaya?