Our tomato plants have quickly out grown the early supports (of dead sticks from the bushes in the background) that we had propped them up with. Their arms are now like new plants themselvels and they've begun to hang over with the weight of the early tomatoes. So with the wood left out by our neighbors and a dollar's worth of string from Chinatown, we consructed what might just be the next genergation of trellises: the trellis-web. The structure will help guide the plants from growing on to one another, but they're not confined to a wooden post.
This was also the night that the policemen were out in droves...putting up no parking signs. The signs were placed in what seemed to be a 3 block radius of our house between 8:30 and 9:30 that evening. The parking regulations were for the following day from 6am until 2pm, or else your car would be towed. 1)apparently cars were towed, even though there was very little warning of the regulation and 2) it was for a plaque ceremony for a police officer who had been shot and killed a block away in 1910. 1910!! It seems like it was a bit late coming. That was the neighborhood drama (as people were walking to their houses from the cars they had to park 5 blocks away, they told us of their woes) as we were putting up our own regulations for the plants in our garden.
An interested passerby, Washington, was kind enough to take our photo with the garden and our trellis!
