Tomato Teepee June 24, 2026

June 24, 2026

So far the “Tomato Teepee” structure has done it’s job this year. I am thankful for this year’s harvest already and we are just getting started. If you click on any of the pictures, you can get a closer view and perhaps see more tomatoes and less foliage. I try not to let the indeterminate plants grow too tall so that the plant can focus on sending nutrients to the tomatoes. Every year is a learning year and this year is no different. One thing I will do differently next year is to not use up a number of pots for something I haven’t grown before. I think I used 5 or 6 fabric “grow pots” on a new variety (for me) that is supposed to be a beefsteak tomato. I thought they would be larger but you can see them on the left of the picture. They have good bunches but they aren’t the size I was looking for. After I harvest most of the ones in those 5 or 6 pots, I already have some “Garden Peach” tomato seedlings that I will plant in the same pots. Garden Peach tomatoes are long keepers that will last deep into the winter.

There are all kinds of things you can use to support tomatoes. Here I have used an old box spring frame.

To support tomatoes I have used simple wire fencing here.

These are “Cosmonaut Volkov” tomatoes that I will be taking to my neighbor, Tom, later today. This year, I have also used seed that I saved from some “Better Boy” tomatoes from 2021. They have done very well. Also, a nice surprise is how large the Roma tomatoes have grown this year. A Roma is a paste tomato that we eat mostly in pasta salads. The sweetest cherry tomato I have ever tasted is a Sun Gold Cherry tomato and they are prolific as usual.

That’s the update for now on the 2026 planting season. There are other things going on. I’ve let the snow peas go to seed. The pepper plants are looking good and the Jerusalem Artichokes haven’t shown their flowers yet but they are loving the rain we’ve had. I’ve enjoyed watching the design of God in all that grows.

12 “The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.” -Genesis 1

Chris Reimers

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