This year we have about 18 HUGE Brandywine & other Heirloom tomato plants from which we've been picking ripe fruit for about the last 2 weeks now. We grow them supported inside wire cages I made from 12gage 8x8 reinforcing wire. Makes it real easy to train the plants upright to keep fruit from rotting on the ground.
You havent lived until you've built & eaten a burger with 2 thick,red,ripe,sweet,juicy Brandywine slices with a seasoned ground-turkey-pattie between 'em all on a toasted onion bun with Cattlemen's BBQ sauce & homemade sweet&sour pickles. Total tastebud meltdown!
We also grow cukes & love eatin 'em sliced up with the tomatoes, a bit of fresh basil, & a balsamic vinegrette.
If you get tired of plain cukes, try making a dressing from sour cream, a little white vinegar & sugar.
Mix in a couple peeled sliced cukes, chill it in the fridge for 1hr & you've got a great-tasting summertime salad.
Deer problems? Yes, our boondocks is crawling with 'em. Which is why dad & I put up a 6 foot chain-link fence 25 years ago. Otherwise, we would have nothing left.
As it is, we have to grow our blueberries & blackberries under chicken wire to keep the birds from stripping the plants clean of fruit.
The apple, pear & peach trees' fruit get bird peck holes in 'em cause the trees are too big for a wire cage or netting.
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