White trash tomatoes and the smack down

You know my sister and I have been working on putting in a vegetable garden at my house this year. It’s awesome! 100 square feet of raised beds. We spent a weekend hauling dirt from up the road to our beds. No we didn’t actually do it ourselves. My son Matt and his friend Jason did the work, but we cooked for them, and they will get picking rights.

Last weekend we finally got plants into the ground. Yes, Danna and I did that work ourselves. We planted starts for corn, peas, beans, cucumbers, radishes, shallots, Walla-Walla onions, Anaheim peppers, red bell peppers, garlic and tomatoes. We didn’t plant the tomatoes in the garden. We planted one in a Topsey-Tervey. You know that thing they advertise on TV that hangs from the patio and you plant the tomato upside down in the bottom? The others we planted in buckets. As our friend Debbi says, we’re having a smack down to see which method works best.

After we were done, we were sitting on the patio admiring our work and enjoying a drink. I pointed out to my sister that we needed to move the tomatoes to the far end of the garden. She asked why and I explained that they were unattractive where we had them. That particular placement kind of screamed WHITE TRASH. We had planted them in empty cat litter bucket with all the labeling still on them.

Danna informed me that if people didn’t know that about us yet, they probably wouldn’t catch on. So the tomato buckets remain in their original positions. I’ll let you know how the Great Tomato Smack Down goes.