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The volunteer small tomatoes have come back and are almost as prolific as last year. We built a little area up against the house where we dumped all the dirt left from the marijuana crop last year. It will contain some really powerful organic fertilizer. Also the cat used it as her litter box. We planted 6 Early Girls there and they are booming. Cages are a total loss. A pear tomato volunteered there and my peas were an experiment. I’ll harvest them as seed. We also have a purple cherry tomato and another cherry. Peppers seem like a loss and another tomato (unknown) went to the front of the house where the deer trimmed it but it is hanging on.

We got bigger pots for the marijuana(limit of 4 plants) and I planted one directly into the dirt to see what would happen. A relative gave us a bag of his crop from last year and we are pulling it apart to harvest the seeds to give away. There are 3 of us in the group and none of us use it so we don’t mind trying new things.

The big question is how to start a real garden. Where to put it, etc? The front yard a par 3 basically is Southern exposure. We have good dirt for beets in Va.