Planting Tomatoes

Elliott and I finished digging the trench out yesterday, 216 inches long and a little short of two feet wide and two feet deep. A helicopter was circling overhead...I wonder if they thought we were digging a really long grave.

This morning I planted the tomatoes, cutting off all the branches up to the top two, and then planting up to those two branches. I laid the plant's stem at a roughly 45 degree angle in the ground so the part above ground could be a few inches from the fence and the root ball would be close to the front of the trench. I sprinkled a tablespoon or two of E.B. Stone's Tomato and Vegetable Food in each hole and closed them up.

My cute little tomato plants, all ready to go.