Hee hee! I just sneaked a dozen Romas from the store today, when I got a tank of water. We have to haul it, so I have a 450 gallon poly tank in the back of the pickup.
Tomatoes did so poor last year that the wife didn’t want me to plant any this time.
As for larger pots, this place has some old, deep bath tubs here & there. They used them in the old days to water the orchard trees. I’m moving the four I know about to the fenced area, and filling them with a custom mix. I’ll use three to grow to grow root veggies: carrots, beets, & rutabagas.
The fourth one will get kitchen scraps, shredded paper, cow manure, and mail order worms.
I’m so jealous of you both!!!!
I have NOTHING in the ground yet. I’ve got all kinds of stuff in flats in the greenhouse, but it just won’t quit raining. If we haven’t caught up on our rain deficit in the past couple of days, I don’t think we ever will.
Tomatoes are doing great, but I’ve been having horrible problems with peppers. If it would quit raining I’ll have about 70 maters ready to go in by this time next week. But I can’t get it tilled up because my field is like a swamp.
I also have a passel of really ticked off outside cats because I laid lattice down over the 2 beds I have by the front of the house. Not 10 minutes after I had the larger one all hoed out, and ready to seed I found 3 of them digging in it.
I was at Horrocks tonight (it’s my favorite grocery store) and cruised the veg plant racks. They had small but robust squash plants, and they were tagged “red hubbard”. Oh yeah, now that’s what I’m talkin’ about. I like squash in general, and hubbards are probably my favorite (along with buttercup; also like butternut, don’t like acorn all that well), perhaps mainly because they are so goofy lookin’, and generally grow to abnormal sizes. :’D The red hubbard is occasionally seen as “old fashioned hubbard” (in the local rural parlance here) and was the basis for Burpee’s “Lakota” I believe.