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stella1751
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Omigosh! Talk about landscaping genius. This is lovely! I liked it before; I love it now :D

Wait until those tomatoes add deep rich green foliage dotted with bright gleaming scarlet to the tableau. Your neighbors must be delighted to have you next door. All the property values with escalate through the roof by fall :-)
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Thanks! That would be nice :wink:
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I just love the way you laid everything out! You have quite a beautiful garden there....

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engineeredgarden wrote:I just love the way you laid everything out! You have quite a beautiful garden there....

EG
Thank you :D

It was quite a challenge. Our backyard has a lot of shade and the only spot that would get enough sun was right in the middle. We also knew that we should make it as nice as possible since we would be looking at our vegetable garden from our deck.

Now the next challenge will be to make it deer-proof. So far they haven't done anything, but we are a little concerned that deer may take a liking to the tomato plants and think the raised beds are a "buffet" set up for them :wink:
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[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/FirstoftheseasonaCampariTomato.jpg[/img]

Here is the first one, a Campari Tomato.
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OH the stepping stones are it!!! When not a Tomato bed I can see seat covers on the frames too. What a beautiful layout you have.
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Layout is very nice. I love the design of the beds. But I'm also a little jealous of all that green grass! It looks like the type of grass you just want to walk around barefoot in all the time.
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[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/5-1.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/1.jpg[/img]

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Great looking garden! I went the raised bed route this year as well. Where bouts in Jersey are you? I'm on the north east side.....just over the river from NYC.
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jerseyguy1996 wrote:Great looking garden! I went the raised bed route this year as well. Where bouts in Jersey are you? I'm on the north east side.....just over the river from NYC.
Sorry about the delay. West Orange.
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here are some pictures of the tomatoes:
Campari
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_10.jpg[/img]
Oxheart
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_12.jpg[/img]
Black Cherry
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_11.jpg[/img]
Black from Tula
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_7.jpg[/img]
Black From Tula - higher up
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_8.jpg[/img]
Daghma's Perfection
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_18.jpg[/img]
Yellow Acid Free
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_19.jpg[/img]
Kumato
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_17.jpg[/img]
Mortgage Lifter Flower
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/MyPhoto_3.jpg[/img]
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Healthy looking plants and fruit there. Great job with the layout, and the maters. What kind of mulch do you use?
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lakngulf wrote:Healthy looking plants and fruit there. Great job with the layout, and the maters. What kind of mulch do you use?
That is mulch from Home Depot, just the regular kind. We filled the beds with top soil. I added a little bit of dry seaweed, lime and a little tomato fertilizer.
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Finally we see some color!
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/large.jpg[/img]
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Black from Tula
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/f5dd96c8.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/622601c1.jpg[/img]

Black Cherry
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/412d0dba.jpg[/img]

Oxheart
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/c774a258.jpg[/img]

Kumato
[img]https://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii419/sstuder1/Tomatoes%202010/5f023ca0.jpg[/img] :D
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