Transplanting Tomatoes

Today we started to transplant the tomatoes.  First we had to go get them.  Laurie had some tomatoes and peppers stored at a friends greenhouse.  We took a ride down and loaded up all the young plants that were getting a bit big for their containers and brought them back to the farm.

Once the plants were back we began bringing wheelbarrow loads of the soil/manure mixture that we tilled last week.  We mixed into that some bags of potting soil as a supplement.

With our mixture ready it was time to take the tomatoes and replant them into larger containers.  Laurie told us that however much of the plant is buried will begin to root.  Some farmers will even lay the entire plant in the ground with only the top exposed.

We re-potted until lunch.  After lunch we set off to the greenhouse to pick for a small order tomorrow.   There is still lots of tomatoes and all the peppers to do, so I suspect we will continue with that tomorrow.