Sorry for all the posts. I should have read all of yours first. My late Dad was the gardener and he always went to the local forest preserve and cut willow branches for his tomato stakes.
Don’t worry about the number of posts! Who doesn’t like to get pings?
Oh, unless there’s somebody yelling at me or correcting me or being snarky. There’s quite a few people like that around here. Luckily none on the gardening thread :-)
I discovered using branches for my peas when I first moved here. The locals have lots of great ideas. So when I got this lovely little Determinate tomato plants, I figured I didn’t need fancy tomato cages or anything. Luckily, because I have a habit of planting every little seedling that thrives. I hate to throw them away.
Hubby needs to get rewarded this weekend, he just helped me plant about 30 San Marzano tomatoes. I should say that I helped him. My tomatoes were getting so big that they needed to either get planted or thrown out soon. Since my arms are in such bad shape, he dug all the holes, oh, first to put down this weed cloth that we had never tried before, I handed him a tomato and then he planted it. I went and got stakes, some from the forest some from The smokehouse from last year, store-bought ones. Then I handed him one of those and he put them in then. the only thing left is for me to get my little Velcro tape and tie up the tomatoes.
I’m on my second ice bag now. I’m just hoping and praying that the inflammation subsides and I don’t have a bad day tomorrow. Felt good to get that chore done though