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Some pics of all the tomatoes some friends and me grew this year for a local farmers market. Was on family of friends land who we consider friends:) These are the tomatoes at their peak where we we getting about as many ripe tomatoes from each plant every week as in the pics and there were 200 some plants! One row was interplanted with Carrots on each side. One row with basil which died mostly in the flood so there's none in the pics.. We were gardening in a clay swamp and it rained a lot! But we got the earliest tomatoes of all the local farmers somehow.. Otherwise we grew Greens, Beans and Carrots. Everything other then those crops drowned or couldn't grow with the clouds. Other then trellising them often because the flood kept knocking lose the polls we didn't do a whole lot of work on the tomatoes. We could have just made more stable poles and they would have stayed up. Some of the plants look a little strangled from the poles bending all over the place but mostly they were happy. Some had a bit of blight in areas where it was more swampy so had a lot of leaves cut off. Basically just prepared the soil in hills, transplanted, let them settle for a couple weeks then weeded a bit and through mulch around. In order of appearance; -Friend Steve and a bunch of cows in the background, Romaine and Butterchrunch lettuce, trellised beans. -Red Speckled Roma -Yellow Speckled Roma -few pics of super market type tomatoes -lots of pics of cherry type toms -Some more supermarket type -German Greens(very big and sweet and stay green) -Chicken named Rocky who was a good friend -Yellow Pear which were green at the time and had been picked already:( then some more cherry types and then some supermarket looking ones... -Romas -More Yellow Pears, then some supermarket looking ones -The ones with the green top and red on the bottom near the end are purple inside -Black Plum -Friend Steve modeling a tomato -Carrot leaves -The clouds -My feet -Some more German Greens -Blue Vervain and Purple Loose Strife -Chicken Friends cooling off and dust bathing under the broccoli -PIece of rainbow, Two cows and a composting toilet with a rain barrel which was home of two goldfish. (the Tomatoes with ribbons on them were ones we were keeping for seeds..) Note: the toilet was a composting toilette not an outhouse. Really interesting experiment and it never smells. Unless you're living with the chickens through out the day I wouldn't recommend having chickens around tomatoes as after we got really busy and couldn't hang out with them as much they started to eat the tomatoes and get into all kinds of trouble. But they did coexist with our garden as long as we were around and gave them respect and some attention. They ate lots of bugs and kept away smaller animals. They acted over all like gangsters though! I have much respect for Chickens these days. They actually started farming techniques of there own on our farm at one point. We would weed and then put mulch, after a while they learned this and would go strait to where we had finished mulching and fling the mulch everywhere as they knew the crickets would be hiding in there! Was not a big problem though after the mulch broke down a bit. One of the chickens named Penny would fight off the rosters who were trying to peck at my finger then come up in front of them so I'd scrach her under the chin. I honestly could never tell if she liked it or just thought it was neat/strange that I would scratch under her chin but it became a routine. Shine your light on any being as an equal and you'll see it's truth:) Just felt like making a rainy reflection of a rainy year to some rainy day music:)