May 28 update

Today at the farm I finished installing T-posts and caught up the twining.   So the farm garden is "caught up".!   Some of the plants in the rows 4 and up had flopped over already but rows 1-3 are ok. Plants in rows 1-2 are about 3 feet high.   Fruit set is happening, and I can already see purple on some of the F3s.  The IR plant already has an intensely purple fruit.

Backyard garden : tomatoes about 4 ft + and growing fast.  No signs of disease.  Fruit set on Flamme, HC, Sun Gold.  The Uluru Ochre plant will prob be last to set fruit.  Interestingly these were sowed about 1 week later in March than i sowed the same types this time last year but transplanted on the same date (April 16).  They are about a foot shorter than last year which must be due to the 1 week later sowing date.  I'm watching closely for signs of disease or wilt, since that started in the first week of June last year.

Update May 20 2017

Ran out of T-posts after putting all the ones from last year in the ground, and got a good amount done on the initial Florida Weave steps.   Need about 15 more posts to finish this year's layout.
About 12 or so corn plants germinated; i cleared out the weeds around them and got straw down.  And planted 1 each of: eggplant, "coolapeno" pepper, crookneck squash and zucchini.
Flowers are coming in well on the tomatoes.  Fruit set has begun on Flamme and also at home on HC.

More progress

I now have 6 rows of weed mat down; then i ran out of pins.  But it's good enough for now.  2 rows of T-posts are up, and I started twining rows 1 and 2.   Plants are moderately healthy and intermittent rain has been good.  For mulch, I got 6 straw bales which was overkill...I thought last year I got 4 bales so I thought "Better get more just in case".  Turns out I got 2 bales last year... 6 bales is a LOT. 2-3 bales is plenty to mulch 100 plants thoroughly.  These are big bales. I brought 2 home and still have about a bale and a half left at the garden.

At the home garden the plants are looking fine, and setting flowers.  I think it is about 1 to 2 weeks behind last year's schedule.

Going to the mat

Got 6 rows of mat pinned across the rows yesterday.  Hand watered some slightly wilty plants.
Home garden tomato plants are looking great.

Leaf anthocyanin induced by stress

Examples of purple color induced by stress - in particular it is visible in IR and also F3s that drooped a bit the day I planted them.  By the next week they had induced the pigment in the older leaves.  Newer leaves show less.   Below is a 24A and the sole IR plant, May 6.

All in.

That is, all the tomatoes are in the ground at last.  (May 6). The total count is over 100 plants at SCF (Stoney Creek Farm).  Actually, I planted 100 holes; one died, so 99 holes have live plants.  But, some positions have more than one plant - particularly the F3s, since I want as great a number of these as possible, even at expense of the plant size or fruit yield per plant.  Probably it's around 115 plants.

Got 2 rows of tarp down.  Also, planted some sweet corn.