This road is full of turns; Garden update

Just a little update on the homestead events. I really do promise that I will finish, or start.. the West Virginia description soon! For today, I want to discuss a very important topic:

What can a poor man do with a small piece of rental property, and no income?

Well for starter's here is a short list.

This is our potato garden that we planted just a short time ago! They are now in about 25% bloom and should be ready for harvest of early potatoes soon. Next we will start working on some under house root cellar experiments to deal with the high temp and humidity here. We will be using recycled, ( scavenged junk), materials to house our harvest. The variety we used was Norkotah, from Ronniger's Farm. We are well pleased in that we had 100% of our seed sprout!

These are some beautiful St. Valery carrots that we got free from the fine folks at Baker Creek seeds when we ordered from them. I have never gotten carrots this far before, and am very happy to see a little late cool night weather here that is helping to keep them going. Winter is when we were supposed to plant these, so there is no telling if they will actually develop into some real roots, or just bushy tops! So far, we are lookin' good!

This one almost got me in trouble! My wife hates to have her picture snapped. It probably doesn't help that she feels REALLY pregnant right now! Still, I wanted to get a shot of our little bed of late blooming lettuce in the lower right corner. Paris Island Co. variety/ Baker Creek. You can also see my redneck tomato trellis system! We grew an indeterminate variety, ( Amish Paste/ Baker Creek), so we needed to stake them well. As you can see, we are VERY happy with Amish Paste Tomatoes! As we realized that we were going to soon need the trellis, we started looking around the homestead to find some material to build with. All we had was a few trees and some twine, so there you have it. We buried the side supports about a foot deep and used some cotton string to run down to the plants. My son cut 12" pieces of stout limbs to tie the bottom of the string to, and then buried those in the ground to give a nice 'anchor' to the string. Then you just keep the suckers pulled off and twine the main trunk around the string every few days. What you see is not a big, bushy, fruitless vine, but a massive wall of tomatoes!

For some reason I can only post 4 pic's at a time so following will be more of the Poor Man's Plan for making due with what the Lord has given...