Today's Q&A comes from some questions that I've been getting from Instagram regarding how I am transitioning one of my raised beds from a summer crop to a fall crop.

Specifically, I have been sharing my process on my Roma tomato bed, which was a brand new raised bed with brand new soil, and this bed produced amazing Roma tomatoes.

I still haven't counted how many pounds,

but it's probably over 70 pounds of tomatoes

for, I think, nine plants that I planted there.

But with my Roma tomatoes, since they are determinate tomatoes,

which means that they produce all

or most of their fruit in a short period of time I take out my Roma tomato plants so

that I can prepare another planting now in the past I have left Roma tomatoes in my

garden and they will trickle in a little bit throughout the rest of the year but I

just prefer to take them out so that I can

plan another planting. What I did in this particular bed, as I shared in my Instagram stories,

as I took out all of my Roma tomato plants after they had been producing for me about four weeks,

and they really just, they were looking kind of bad and there were a few

green tomatoes on there but not that many and they definitely weren't producing at

a good enough rate for me to keep them there so I took them all out because this was a

new raised bed and because in this bed I had lined it with sticks and pine cones and organic matter at the bottom

the soil settled quite a bit in fact I probably had six inches of space that the soil had actually settled over just this one season

I wanted to replenish that soil to get ready to plant my fall crop of broccoli. What I did is I got

topsoil and I added about half of that six inches with top soil and then I put bulk

compost on top. I use the bulk compost because that's what I have and also because

it worked really well on that garden and other

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