Roma tomatoes

Here is the roma bed in the middle of June. To the left are sunflowers with plenty of weeds, and to the right is a bed of peppers with marigolds alternating. A gardener friend gave me the romas, so next year I will have to do it myself. She seeds them into a cold frame out in her garden; I seeded all my other tomatoes into the ground under the elegant milk-jug cloche.


Here is the home of the romas now, facing the other direction. The basil is pretty well out-grown and invisible. The basil plants were a gift, but I later had to transplant my own seedlings in after some unidentified predator chopped each seedling off in mid-stem. These tomatoes have been allowed to sprawl.

I'm still thinking about how to control them next year. D.T. votes for a single row with something low for them to sprawl over and keep them off the ground. We are walking on them, presently, as they've grown into the walkway. Makes sense, right?

Today D.T. brought in about 2 gal. of romas, but since the kitchen faucet needed work, none of them got processed. Applesauce was finished instead -- 7 qt.