Tomato Seedlings Planted. 14 May 24.

Over the past four days, I planted the slicing / eating tomatoes, and the paste / salsa / cooking tomatoes.  I replaced the in- line drip irrigation (for last year's garlic and beans) with rescued individual emitters, one for each plant.  These are almost all dwarf tomato varieties, most from saved seeds.  They should reach about the tops of the supports.  The exception, Reisentraub, is more vigorous but can be trimmed.

The emitters all seem to be working.  This year, I invested in heavy duty wire ring supports to keep them more vertical.  That makes the cardboard mulching a bit more complicated but I will figure it out.

Similar for the sauce / salsa / cooking tomatoes.  Half are "Roma", a not-vigorous bushy determinate.  There are a couple of hybrid paste tomatoes too, last seeds from the packs.  Paisano and Plum Regal.  They are determinate and bushy but more vigorous and sprawling than Roma, so the supports will help keep the tomatoes clean and safe from slugs and sun exposed for sweetness and flavor.  The hybrids are more productive and larger, meaty tomatoes and are less work than Roma, but I also grow Rons because of sentimental reasons, and I can save Roma seeds each year.  So I feel like they  are "mine".

The redcurrent on the left needs to go.  It was accidental a pruned stick, stuck into the ground.  At the back are Egyptian Walking Onions, which will remain there until fall.

I also added an extra Reisentraub to the sauce tomato bed.  My cherry tomato seedlings didn't thrive, so I bought three plants - a dwarf type, similar to my heirloom dwarf tomatoes but is a hybrid cherry, called "Husky Red Cherry".  It should fit in, and I prefer dwarf types.  The other two are "Supersweet  100" which is too vigorous for these raised beds so needs a different location, and "Red Cherry" (!?) which might also need it's own location.