Hot as fire with some record breaking heat for May.
32 degrees in the field yesterday and today but despite only being transplanted five days ago the seedlings are transitioning well. They will be trellised this week.
A couple of rows of unstable project tomatoes out in the open where it’s better to assess their form and weather tolerance without much interference or excessive pruning.
They will be on drip irrigation as shown. Heavy native clay soil ( (historically a river flood plain location)
Mulched with compost as shown. Organic growing
practices are used at the farm.
In the tunnel seen there are tomatoes as well but those are F1 hybrids and stable Op that are pruned and single stem on strings from overhead supports.
Some of my stable varieties are in there as well.
We are growing all of my indeterminate varieties in these locations this year. The produce will be sold to support the non profit that operates the farm so I hope everything grows well. There will be some interesting things to show as they grow.
Getting the seedlings growing strong is job # 1
So far so good despite the heat wave
KarenO