The T-Town Tomato Towers

Soon to be Taneytown’s newest tourist attraction... The tomato towers are complete and installed. The structure system is a combination of the towers themselves, from a design in Mother Earth News, and a trellising idea I saw at the Rodale Institute test farm in Emmaus, Pennsylvania last summer. Still have to add the bamboo cross-pieces to separate the plants. As configured, one “run” of two towers handles four tomato plants. In a long row, with an extra tower, it would handle seven. (I wasn't planning on the towers, of course, when I planted, so I ended up with a too-small variety under that right one; maybe it will catch up.) If the tomatoes grow to fill them — which they should, based on past years’ experience — they should be awesome. There will be lots to can, although I seem to be coming up two jars short.