What’s that, you ask?
Haha, well a tuteur in French is a support for plants, or sticks lashed together to form a nice place for tomatoes, say, to grow into and have sturdy supports for their branches to rest without strain.
These are mama’s tuteurs, starting with holes that go down to China made by the macho-he-man-hole-digger in our family.
One guess who that is.
They may seem a little spindly, but those babies are lashed to the sturdy green fence and each other and aren’t going ANYWHERE in the Spanish winds that blow through here in summer.
We hope.
But mostly we hope they will be hidden from sight by tall, green tomato plants full of Gladiators or Big Mamas or Super Sauce (mama can’t remember which tomatoes are which in her little seed pots…oy).
I watched all of this labor from my couch, pointing out a few tips here and there when mama was about to screw up, but eventually she took my advice and I conked out.
Hard work, the task of tutoring tuteurs
We can’t wait to see those tomato plants.
Uh…how long have you got? 72 days, start to finish, they SAY. We shall see.
Tomatoes are so versatile, Loulou. Your mama is very clever to grow them.
She just sticks her seedlings in good earth and hopes!
WOW – those tuteurs look like they will be holding up some HUGE plants!!! You are so lucky Loulou! A beautiful patio – and garden! Well, we have grocery stores just around every corner – but NOT the same thing! BUT if we go early, no one else is there – except the workers who wear masks. Like Zorro. And now they are selling masks – and in the post office and Retif too, we hear. Maybe we’ll get some more!
You will partake of them we are sure.
Just keep on dreaming of tomatoes, LouLou.
I dream, I dream…but the tomatoes turn into pizza, haha.