For the first time, I am trying to have sort of a real garden. I've learned three things so far:
- Tomatoes out of your garden taste much better than those from the Food Lion
- Tomatoes seem to be a pain in the ass to grow if you don't know what you are doing [and I don't]
- Corn wants to live. Like...badly. Crazy how fast it grows.
Spot on about the taste of garden tomatoes, WAN. I've got heavy clay soil here at EllGab Garden West, so I grow about a half dozen tomato plants in pots with regular potting soil that you can buy by the bag at local garden centers. One thing I've learned about growing them in pots, it's best to use the smaller cherry tomato plants. You can get a good crop of those, but the larger varieties don't produce as much when in pots. I still grow some of them but only get one to three tomatoes per pot. Still, it's fun to see the big ones growing in them. One can use those wire cages for support as they will fit right inside the pots.
Corn: Knee high, by the Fourth of July.
