Year 5 ended with a fizzle, hence the lack of posts. My one really good tomato plant was ravaged by a mouse. We killed it for good measure, alas it was too late. With the tomatoes I did have, I dehydrated them and turned them into tomato powder - which is totally a product people use, I had no idea (see here , here and here ). It's now August 2018, have a used it? Big fat nope. Yeah...I suck. It's still living in my pantry, vacuum-sealed. So, let's fast forward to this year - Year 6. I had my second son on June 8th (Yay!). Doing anything remotely enjoyable with two children under 5 is neigh impossible. Yes, I have planted tomatoes, and I have planted a zucchini, but not much progress in containers or working with our land has happened. Shocking right? On top of that, it's been an unusually hot summer here in Colorado, so the tomatoes in my raised beds are not loving life, the tomato plant I put closer to the ground (...