2 gardens are better than one.

Of course both gardens really serve a different purpose in the end. The front garden is where my tomatoes and greens hang out. But in the back yard I have the much more varied produce garden. It has French Fingerling potatoes, heirloom sweetcorn, squash, beans, and melons growing. In fact my corn has just started to put out the first ears of the year. This whole year has just been one giant gardening experiment. I have some pictures that I will be posting soon.

Tomato disaster

So I started my tomatoes inside about a month ago. Which sounds great... but I left them outside at night over the weekend because it got up to 90 degrees here on Thursday.  Well of course Murphy struck and over night it dropped to 36. Of course everyone knows that my baby tomato plants very quickly died off. Well all but two of them did. Lucky for me I have 15 more seeds freshly starting which means that by the time the last frost hits I should have enough ready to still plant them out. I'm looking forward to finding out which of the 7 varieties I'm planting will be the most productive and taste the best.

Better season extension?

I have a feeling this will be a much better system than my first effort. If you can't tell this setup is much more compact and will be mobile when I figure out how I want to finally attach the plastic in a semi-permanent fashion. The down side to this was that the units were fairly complicated in the number of pieces that had to be cut. The upside is that all my crops are still alive. Hopefully this gives someone an idea of what you can do to keep growing crops even after the traditional season has ended.