We have been picking  tomatoes for about a week, we picked our first tomatoes on the 28th of May we picked about 166 lbs of tomatoes the last week of may. We have already picked over 102 lbs In the last 4 days. We have beefsteak, paste tomatoes, sandwich slicers, and more. If anyone is interested let me know.

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I’m a little behind on posting but here is the latest on the garden. It’s the middle of may and we have lots of tomatoes just waiting for them to start turning red.

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Here you can see all the strawberries on the plants, the strawberry garden is only 4 weeks old. Also hundreds of tomatoes all still green -so hard to see, and lots of flowers. The tomato trees are really healthy and quite large.  You can see my 6 foot walkway between the rows is almost gone.

The pH on the strawberries got up to 8 but I got it corrected. That is what caused the yellow leaves with green veins. It locked up the iron so it wasn’t available to the plant. The new growth should be coming in greener in the next 2 weeks.

I did a little walk-thru of the garden currently. Everything is doing so well. All the plants are loaded with flowers. We also have quit a few green tomatoes already. Even the strawberries have lots of flowers and the start of strawberries.

Hope everyone had a fun Easter. The weather here was fabulous. We have our first tomatoes and strawberries popping out of the season.

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We have been getting our garden going this year. We started planting on March 2nd. The gallery below is the garden so far. The images were taken on March 2nd then March 13th with the most resent images taken on March 30th. So far we have 45 trees of tomatoes, 360 plants planted and 10 trees of strawberries, 480 plants planted. Everything is growing beautifully.

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Its now mid May and our vegetable garden is doing fabulous.   We are picking veggies and enjoying everything in the garden.

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In Victorian times, houses were very narrow, multi-storied, and had a small “footprint” on the land. This left more land for private gardening, and commons, among other things. Then came the 1960s, and “ranch style” homes, with half-acre grass covered lots. By the 1970′s anyone with a vegetable garden in a suburban or city back yard were “hippies,” “weird,” or “old fashioned.”

The 1990′s saw the boom of Mega-Mansions on postage stamp sized lots, weekly lawn-care crew visits, and still little vegetable gardening on a respectable scale, regardless of whether one lives in the city or the suburbs. Now we have an oil crisis overlain with a salmonella crisis: both of which the US Federal government seems incapable of dealing with. Vertical gardening might help change that.

…the system is designed to grow vegetables and other foods much more efficiently and with greater food value than in agricultural field conditions. The HDVG system demonstrates the following characteristics:

• Produces approximately 20 times the normal production volume for field crops
• Requires 5% of the normal water requirements for field crops
• Can be built on non arable lands and close to major city markets
• Can work in a variety of environments: urban, suburban, countryside, desert etc.
• Does not use herbicides or pesticides
• Will have very significant operating and capital cost savings over field agriculture
• Will drastically reduce transportation costs to market resulting in further savings, higher quality and fresher foods on delivery, and less transportation pollution
• Will be easily scalable from small to very large food production situations