Tomato Planting

This weekend, amongst many other tasks, I managed to plant the remaining five tomatoes into the garden. The other 11 plants were planted last weekend. I was holding off planting the last five due to lettuce, spinach & radishes that needed to be eaten to make way for them. We ate all the radishes & spinach but didn't make it through all the lettuce. I decided to just plant the tomatoes within the lettuce and then harvest the lettuce as needed. Here are some photos of how I planted the tomatoes and a photo of each tomato area.

This is a consensus of what all the tomatoes looked like before planting.
They are sturdy but rather long from being to close together. They all are
about 24" high.

I always plant my tomatoes deep as they root along the stem
but these ones were planted particularly deep. It's hard to see
from the photo but they are 12" deep.

They then all got a stake and tie.

Followed by a tomato cage. These particular cages are about
double the thickness of your average tomato cage and a little taller.

This is the group of tomatoes that I planted in the raised beds. This is my first
time growing tomatoes in soil, previously I have grown tomatoes in large
containers for the past 5 years. I am hoping they develop better in real soil.

These are the three topsy turvy's. They are growing really well so far.

Finally the last tomato group in the oak barrel. These ones are 'Jersey Devil'
paste tomatoes and they seem to be limping along. I am hoping for a rebound
if it ever warms up.