One last time tomatoes

Yep. I’m going to try again. Guy says if I can’t get them to look decent this year, no more tomatoes for me! (But if I put a tomato cell into the cart next spring, it will come home. Guy can’t resist the sad-Kim eyes.)

But the threat was well taken, prompting me to cave and get the raised bed forms and new soil that I’d been wanting for a while. The side yard garden has been evolving for a while, and we’re still tweaking it, having added the arborvitae in their new stone bed the first year, a pergola and deck the second year, and the patio pavers just last fall. It used to be a long drive, and indeed, half of it still is. I had tried to loosen up the dirt once the asphalt was taken up, and we did bring in about five, ten yards of soil to put on top so grass would grow with a little encouragement, but it perks too fast and gets too hot. So we’re trying again with raised beds. Which in hindsight is probably what we should have done anyway. Who wants to eat asphalt-tainted tomatoes?

This year:

Last Year. As you can see, something clearly had to be done.