I tore out the ugly mess of last year's potted tomatoes today (Elliott and my landlord are probably happy about that!) and replaced one of the dead tomato plants with my little Martino's roma tomato. I'm so happy to have plants planted! I planted him in Home Depot's budget potting soil (which appears to be mostly sawdust). He got a couple tablespoons of E.B. Stone's Sure Start fertilizer and a couple tables spoons of John and Bob's Soil Optimizer. The latter I picked up at Armstrong Garden center over the weekend while attending a (mostly useless) free seminar on tomatoes. The "expert" raved about this stuff so I thought I'd give it a try this year.
I also dumped all the dead potted plants on the side yard and front porch. I wish I'd done it months ago as it looks so much neater now. Oh well...now I can fill them up again when I get a chance :) Update 4/2: I planted 8 sweet pea seeds around the roma, leftover from my fava bean/sweet pea planting. My hope is that they will climb the trellis while my tomato grows inside, and by the time the tomato gets really going the sweet peas will be spent. It may be too warm a spot there for my sweet peas though. I suppose we shall see!
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