Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Tomato Planter Box


Whelp, usually there is leftover wood lying around the house due to random projects we continue to have. After adding shelves to our downstairs storage room we have a few two by fours and some plywood leftover. Put together with a few leather straps leftover from the wilderness and WHAM!!! Tomato planter box! So i bought four tomato plants to fill it up. And they like the fresh air up on the second story balcony. Here they are freshly planted and this is the beauties after a couple of good sunny summer months. I have spotted about four or five tomatoes starting in. I purchased two generic grocery store plants and the other two I got at an awesome garden shop that sells heirloom tomato plants. Its funny to think that for some reason these ones are from better stock and will probably have some social issues like they were home schooled or something. So that is the idea, pin them up with some locals and hope for the best. The two heirlooms include a green tomato known as the black prince and another called Beef Heart Tomatoes. They sound delicious and that they could be fairly huge in size. We are all excited here at the blue house and cant wait for the harvest. We have been having mock caprese parties warming us up for the day when our basil and tomatoes will meet in a blaze of balsamic vinegar and french bread.


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