I’m located in inland southern California, zone 9b. Normally I’d be harvesting ripe tomatoes by now, but I’m certainly not complaining about this cooler weather. This is the second year I’ve grown tomatoes over this arch, really love how it looks when fully covered.
[Image description: Split image of an arched trellis, the first with wild tomato vines blocking access, the second with the vines trimmed and woven up into the arch, and the center of the arch accessible.]
Love the trellis.
That’s so cool! Is that in your front yard?
Yep! Some previous owner of my house put in an absolutely massive pool that takes up 95% of the backyard, so I smothered my front lawn with mulch and built my garden there!
The bermuda grass is tenacious though, really have to stay on top of yanking it where it tries to reestablish. You’ll see patches of it if you look in the background of the lower photo, but it’s a war of attrition I think I’m slowly winning.
Your garden looks beautiful! I would be stoked if i was your neighbour
I really like the garden and the arc 😍
Nice work! They look very thirsty though
OP is in SoCal, so perhaps water restrictions and/or just a deeply dry climate making it hard to keep plants from getting a lil thirsty.
Yep, it’s pretty darn dry where I’m at. The drip irrigation I use doesn’t fall under our current water restrictions, but I still try to not use excessive amounts. I also mulch everywhere and add increasing layers as the weather heats up.
This is my soil from when I was weeding yesterday, plenty moist and look at all those worms!
Could also be the stress from moving and pruning. They’ll probably look better after a day or two with their regular watering routine
Man I wish my tomatoes would go crazy… right now I’m starting to worry I may not get many this year. Last year I grew cherry tomatoes and they took over half the garden bed and produced so many tomatoes that we couldn’t possibly use them all. Not sure why the Rutgers I planted aren’t wanting to do the same…