When he is not in his treehouse, my nephew, Tanner, just might be helping his mom in her garden. Lisa's tomato plants are eight feet tall! Pacific Northwest gardeners like myself are all agog at tomato plants that are that robust. Lisa lives on a woodsy piece of property that once belonged to our maternal grandfather in Northeastern WI. The fence around the garden is to keep the deer out, they come right up to the windows of their house and eat her flowers at night. You've got to be a tenacious gardener to put up with bold critters munching on delectable plant life when your back is turned. More likely, Tanner is taking a dip in his pool to beat the heat.
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Tanner is a doll! Lucky boy to have a tree house.
Your tomato plants look nice and healthy and tall. Do you have them stacked to keep them from flopping over the fence?
My plants were big this year too and at first we did not have many tomatoes and they were mostly small. we pulled off the lower suckers and non bearing branches. After this, the tomatoes got much bigger. I am in the midst of making salsa. Oh to be able to store up fresh tomatoes to eat all winter! The tree house is awesome.
great pic
Oh do I wish those were my tomato plants! The skinny blond is my sister Lisa. She lives in northeastern Wisconsin.
Now THOSE are tomatoes.
My favorite aunt and uncle (they live on the Southern Oregon coast) had a lovely garden, fenced in against the deer, who apparently recruited the neighborhood bear, who leaned and pushed and sat on the fence until it finally gave up and fell over.
They decided they were licked.
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