From the start, I have wanted to make sure and plant plenty of tomatoes...We also knew the tomato process would probably be one of our most time consuming planting processes. We used last Thursday, April 26, to prep our row for giving our tomatoes as good of growing conditions as possible. Dad dug out our row that morning, then we cleared the row of rocks. Our soil is still so hard and rocky below the area where we have tilled. After doing a little research and speaking with our "Arkansas Tomato Pro", Dean McGee, we determined we needed to add some manure/compost to our row of soil. We went to Lowe's and got 10 bags of manure/compost and 10 bags of topsoil that afternoon.
Kately just conveniently had a family function at school that night so I missed out on the "load of fun" of actually applying the manure/compost/topsoil...Dad did the following while I was gone that evening...He added 400 lbs. of cow manure/compost to our 100 ft. row...
Then he added 500 lbs. of potting soil to our 100 ft. row...
Finally, he covered the row up with a light layer of dirt...Here is the tomato row ready for action!
Dad also took the time to use the Merry Tiller to loosen up the dirt on both sides of our mound so we would have plenty of dirt to throw over the edges of our weed barrier in a couple days.
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