Positioning Posts for Tomatoes - Planting Tomatoes - Lots of Rain - Weeding

Posts are driven into the ground and string is

woven around the posts to hold the tomato

plants.  

  

As the tomato plants grow taller, the string is again 

woven in and around the posts to hold the

plants.  The tomato plants are held in place

with this string and is easier to pick the tomatoes

at harvest time.

The tomato plants are positioned one foot

from each other.  In this picture you can

see the string (orange) used to hold up

the plants.

Another picture of the posts and string

holding the tomatoes.  We used this

method last year and it was very

successful.

The corn is coming up nicely and so are

the weeds.  We had lots of volunteers

helping to weed in the new corn field.

  When the corn grows about one foot high, 
then we will plant soybean as a ground cover 
to help control the weeds.  We have never 
planted soybean, so this will be an experiment.

This is a back tiring task of weeding in

the corn rows.  Later on weeding tools

will be used to eliminate the bending over.