“Grow Another Row, Cass County!” is a campaign to encourage residents to grow more food to share in 2020. The campaign is launching to address food challenges created by COVID-19, as
more people are finding themselves needing a little extra help keeping food on the table.

Denise O’Brien of Rolling Acres Farm with her tomatoes in 2019.

Most Wanted Produce: According to ISU Extension, the 13 best produce donations are:
tomatoes, winter squash, zucchini, potatoes, onions, peppers, cucumbers, melons, broccoli, cabbage, sweet potatoes, carrots, and beans.

Now is a great time to plant green beans.

Pole beans need a trellis to climb on but save some strain on the back at harvest time! A bean trellis can be as simple as planting along the garden
fence.

Can you grow another row of tomatoes?

Denise O’Brien of Rolling Acres Farm is focused on producing greenhouse raised plants to help people start their own gardens. This year she’s
giving away free tomato plants to people growing another row. Learn more about Rolling Acres Farm and contact Denise through her website www.rollingacres76.com, or find Rolling Acres
Farm on Facebook @RollingAcresAtlanticIowa. Thank you to Rolling Acres Farm for the support!!

How do your tomatoes grow??
Do your tomatoes often get overgrown and hard to pick? Trellising or caging gets those plants (and tomatoes) up off the ground, making them easier to pick and preventing rot. Additionally,
pruning excess foliage from indeterminate varieties will increase fruit set and speed up ripening. Indeterminate varieties produce leaves and flowers continuously through the growing
season. To prune effectively, pick one main growing stem and remove all other leaves and ‘suckers.’ Suckers are the little shoots that form in the axil where the leaf stem attaches to the
main growing stem.

For more information, please contact:
Brigham Hoegh, Wellness Coordinator
Cass County ISU Extension
712-249-5870

For more gardening tips and to sign up to participate in Grow Another Row visit https://www.extension.iastate.edu/cass/content/grow-another-row-cass-county.