Saturday 8 April 2017

Watermelon Picnic Quilt



I’ve planted a garden every year for as long as I can remember, primarily for tomatoes. I love the color, flavor and variety of heirloom tomatoes. I tuck thick beefsteak slices in my sandwiches and I pop sweet cherry tomatoes just like candy. I can get them from the grocer, but compared with home grown tomatoes, store bought tastes like cardboard. This spring in addition to at least two varieties of tomato, I’m planting carrots. Carrots, dill, parsley, cilantro and parsnips attract mantises, ladybugs, spiders and other predators. More predators = fewer bugs eating my tomatoes. I learned a long time ago some vegetables like growing up side-by-side, and others don’t. Know what you get when you plant cucumbers and cantaloupe too close to each other? It isn’t pretty. Cucumbers aren’t good company for tomatoes, either. Neither are potatoes. But basil, garlic, rosemary and carrots are a tomato plant’s best friends.

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