Well - this is how were are going to try to grow tomatoes this year. We tossed around the idea of getting a greenhouse, but in the end decided on - No. If we got one, we'd want a big one, one that you can move around in easily. And then I don't think the greenhouses here would make it physically through a hefty dumping of Minnesota snow.
We've got a couple hanging upside down; tomatoes on the bottom, basil on the top. And then we've also got a few in the grow boxes that we brought with us. Rich planted them down into the soil so that the weak stems wouldn't blow around so much. We'll see how it all goes I guess.
These are our third planting of the upside down version. Rich planted two and they rapidly perished. We thought it was the way he squished them through the tiny opening that did them in. So then I took another two plants and very gently inserted them root first through the hole opening. But again they quickly died. But I also happend to touch the water running out after my first watering and it was quite hot. I think too much fertilizer was added to the first batch of potting soil. And since the excess runs right out and drips off the plant's leaves and stems, they basically got chemically burned.
And my find of the weekend - a fossilized sea urchin. The bottom of this thing is flat, and then the top is domed. Along with the star and side imprints, I can't think of what else it might be.
I found this little treasure on the main swimming beach in Kerteminde. While at the harbor, there were some guys scuba diving, along with a pile of stuff found under the water there.
I've heard that there is a spinning vortex of plastic trash somewhere out in the pacific ocean. Satellites can pick up the image from space. Amazing. If that isn't enough to convince us hold up on the plastic, I don't know what could.
But then how would I grow my tomatoes?
3 comments:
Hi Melissa,
I heard a story on the floating islands of garbage on NPR not too long ago, they were interviewing a flotsamologist. Apparently one in the Pacific ocean is 3 times the size of Texas, can you imagine? On a couple of occasions he was able to track details of how the currents carry things b/c a cargo ship had dumped ~40,000+ nike tennis shoes (they all have serial numbers) and another occasion a bunch of bathtub toys. makes for a cheap, large scale experiment. anyway, just thought i would add that. good luck with the tomatoes.
kelly
woops, i may have posted the same comment twice b/c i didn't think the first one went through since i hadn't registered. cut me some slack, this represents my very first blog entry, aren't you proud? and yesd, i should be working
I didn't have to publish that second comment of yours - but I did, cause its funny. Get to work!
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