Scott, I'm wondering what you're doing with the tomato plant biomass at the end of season?
I know I end up with a huge compost pile every year, to consume the nutrients locked up in those big plants and turn them back into soil. Great producers of biomass, for sure, but problematic to return it directly to the soil without a good hot composting to get rid of any diseased plant residues.
If the plants themselves or an equivalent amount of compost weren't returned to the original bed, it would explain a lower return the second year, IMO, as the sheer mass of the tomato plants represents a large withdrawal of nutrients.... Just a thought.
Congratulations on the beginning of year three!
And on the new partners/sponsors or what I should call em - interested parties contributing one or another kind of help.
