Within our home garden, we each were assigned a few crops to research and chose varieties to plant. I got cherry tomatoes and asparagus. We'll receive year old asparagus plants soon and even though our class won't be able to enjoy them, future students will. I went with black cherry and green grape tomatoes, both of which came highly recommended.
Our neighbor, Maggie (of Maggie's Farm), is famous for producing the earliest tomatoes on our ridge top. She starts them at the end of February and lets them grow for a long time indoors so that they're rather tall by planting time. Since tomatoes are advantageous rooters, meaning that the trunk of the plant will take root, she digs a trench and lays them down in it. She then shares tomatoes with us a month before ours are ready.
I wanted to experiment with this so I started half of the cherry tomatoes early. We'll see what happens!
We're growing three more varieties for the CSA/farmers market so we'll have black, green, red, orange and yellow cherry tomatoes this summer! Yum!
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