Planting Tomatoes

Mark Voss from Voss Organics donated a baker's dozen organic tomato plants to our garden!

Accompanied by her kids, Zivile and I planted them this afternoon.

First we plotted out the square foot system on two of the new raised beds. We placed eye screws at one foot intervals along the perimeter of the beds. Then we strung kitchen twine through the eyes to create the 1' grid that is at the heart of the square foot method.

After we planted the tomatoes, Zivile mulched them with straw she had brought.

Then we got to water them with the hose that Iris brought and installed along the side of the building.

It was the inaugural planting and watering of the brand-new beds!