After Building Tomato Cages, Let-Us-Eat!

This morning's low: 58F
Afternoon high: 66F
Tonight's projected low: 57F
Cloudy nearly all day, with one heavy downpour about 1:00pm, and a south wind ~ 5 mph
Humidity: 88%

1. I Assembled six tomato cages (each 28" in diameter and ~ 5' in height) from one roll of welded-wire 5' X 30' (purchased at Walmart for ~$35). M wants to sink each cage 1 foot down into the garden beds, and then I'm thinking we'll also stake them down with plastic store-bought stakes and rope. Last year, we used store-bought tomato cages and did not stake them down. This worked okay until June thunderstorms blew them over, which seriously diminished our overall tomato harvest, and basically was a real bummer. We want these cages to stand up strong all Spring/Summer/Fall. We'll put tomato plants, cages and stakes in the ground together on or shorly after April 15th.

2. Just before sunset, M and I went out to the garden, took several photos of our progress thus far, and cut lettice for tonight's dinner. We learned our lesson with the potatoes, and are eating up and relishing our fresh, organic garden lettice each day in large, delicious lunch and dinner salads! I've also been giving the plants we cut lots of attention and fresh water and worm tea two or three times a week. Mirculously, they have grown back 100% or more. We've broadcast a new round of seeds to a well-shaded bed of peat moss in the hopes of harvesting lettice throughout the Spring and Summer months. This bed gets morning sun, but is shaded for the remainder of the day, and we're hoping that, even with the hot Summer days ahead, the shade will keep the young lettuce plants cool enough to thrive.