Hello all! I am new obviously and I want to introduce myself. My name is Tammy and I live in southern colorado. I have 7 children and this is our first year at our new house and our first garden.
We cleared a 25x25 square on the back 40 (seems like, our house is on slightly more than an acre). We are planting what we can put up kwim? Corn, squash (zuccini, pumpkin, spaghetti squash and acorn and butternut if I can find the
seeds), tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, onions, strawberries, beans, cucumbers and more, I can't remember.
We have a high alkaline soil, so we have been clearing the natural prairie grass and
weeds and tilling in some coffee grounds and cotton boll fertilizer. We shall see how it goes. See? I've done my homework.
My husband is putting up a fence today to keep out the quail, rabbits, dogs, kids :).
My question is this: Yesterday we put in the tomato plants. We put in a scosh of fertilizer in each hole, then watered, mulched and watered a bit more. Today they look sad. It didn't freeze last night but they look that way. Are they done for? The strawberry plants look just fine. Can my "celebrities" be saved? Elvis? John Wayne? Heath? (Yes, the children named them) I would appreciate any advice.
Tammy
and welcome 
we like tammy's around here 
(there are a couple!)