So, this is a couple of weeks old, but still of some relevance never the less. When we set out our tomato plants, we've found it is very helpful to protect them from the Oklahoma wind until they get established. We do this by cutting the top and bottom out of gallon size cans and putting these around the plants.
You are probably wondering where we got all these cans! Some of them are large coffee cans that we have saved. But, most of them were given to us by Dick Ortez. Dick used to run the Boarding House Cafe near the OSU campus. Since then, he has been canning salsa, pickled beets, saurkraut and other things made from the vegetables he grows on his farm east of Stillwater. He supplements his home-grown vegetables with canned tomatoes that he buys in these gallon sized cans. Thanks to Dick these cans get recycled for a good purpose and our tomato plants don't blow away in the wind!
Dick used to sell most of his canned goods through the Farmers Market. But, he has recently started to sell his products through our local IGA store at the corner of 6th and Washington.
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