Keeping Krim Kontained
With the cage garden’s shape and growing space being limited the way it is, I need to train as many of the tomato plants as possible into vertical columns. That’s way more complicated than it sounds, especially with a giant plant like the Black Krim.
The nice thing about the cage garden is that I have places overhead to tie things to. It’s easy for me to make a trellis out of some spare string or wire and an eye bolt or two. As a result, I’m training the Krim up the side of wires / string strung from the top of it’s cage up to the ‘roof’ of the garden, sort of like the giant tomato plant at EPCOT.
The strings and wire are tied to the top of the tomato cage.
The Krim’s now about five feet tall. It’s growing almost visibly. And it’s set it’s first fruit! I was having lots of problems with it, but then I realized that it liked a lot more water than everything else seemed to want. After changing the way I watered (multiple short waterings with the soaker hose), I managed to get it, the cucumbers, and the Kentucky Wonder pole beans to grow profusely, even if the peppers and Sweet 100’s are complaining a bit about being overwatered. Next year, I’ll know what to plant where.
First fruit on the Krim
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