re: Garden Updates

We trans-planted 44 big beef tomatoes into 11 eighteen inch pots beside our house near a water faucet in late Feb. They're about done now.

So far, we've picked 305 tomatoes weighing 152 lbs and some were 14 - 16 oz. We blanch, peel, and puree most tomatoes and freeze the puree in quart bags. From 230 tomatoes we pureed, we have frozen 42 quart bags.

The stink bugs, horn worms, fungus, etc. become bad this time of year so we plant early so the tomatoes are finished by the 3rd week in June.

We'll pull the tomato plants and plant collards in the same pots in mid August.