make it happen!
Okay, the ground was not dried out from the previous rain, but if I didn’t plant the last of the tomatoes today, they would probably have dried up in their tiny, little containers (is that redundant? –rhetorical question. yes.) So I planted nine San Marzanos and three Mexican Midgets, plus the last three of the broccoli. I also weeded the onions and rigged up a deer/rabbit barricade for the newly planted tomatoes. I arrived at the garden about 9 A.M. and left about 1:30 P.M.
After watching a few YouTube videos, we decided this was the way we wanted to protect plants–year round. Dwight cut rebar in to 2′ lengths. The ground was sooo saturated with water, we didn’t even need a hammer. We left 6-8″ above the ground. The PVC sticks are 10′ long. I think they could be a little shorter. Anyway, during cold weather months we plan to put 3mil plastic on so that we can have greens for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners–and in between! Obviously, we need to either get a wider row cover or shorten the PVC sticks.
Dwight’s handiwork