The Village Green, Northside, Cincinnati Ohio

Today I planted Amethyst String Beans at  one of our community garden plots.
I planted with a young friend, Steve, my sharecropper?
No, I'm not charging him anything, I just rent beds there and then foist them on my friends!

The instructions called for 3 feet between rows but 8 seeds per foot!
This bed is only 4' wide, so we ran two rows, a foot in from either side.
We covered the seeds, then walked down the rows for better seed to soil contact, and watered it heavily.

This is nother bed at the Village Green.
Made from a 2x3 pallet collar, it was planted last year with peas and later, volunteer tomatoes transplanted from other beds.
This time the volunteers came up in the bed and I cleared away the other "weeds" to give the tomatoes a better chance.

I will probably plant onion sets into this same bed, and also sow cilantro.

If I saw that volunteer in my garden, my first thought would be Solanum nigrum. (which excites me more than tomatoes, but I'd keep it either way. And I don't know if that even grows where you are.)

My experience with wonderberries makes me unexcited to meet Solanum nigrum, but I'm open to it.
The tomatoes that grew here last year were kinda a Matt's Wild Cherry type.
I say kinda, because those were my first volunteers, but I buy in some cherry tomatoes plants every year, and I hope for  some genetic mixing.
We give tomatoes to the chickens, both our homegrown ones that spoiled, and lots of dumpster tomatoes.
The chicken compost is vector for spreading these tomatoes to multiple parcels.

Community plots are such a good way to get people growing who wouldn't otherwise have space. The volunteer tomatoes spreading through chicken compost is a nice touch — nature doing the work for you.

My garden coordinator asked me to clean up plot 8.
This surprised me because I don't think it's one of mine, but she thinks it is...
So I clean out the weeds, and transplanted the trees and bushes.
There are some big strawberry plants in one of the beds and I will probably transplant them to another bed that already has strawberry plants.

Might plant both beds with  corn, even though Its kinda late.

Steves bean plants are up!
I finished their enclosure today(groundhogs and deer are the pests)

I had some pieces of 3/4" PVC pipe that were no where close to a full 10', and I had some stakes made of 1/2" emt.
I bent 3  of the stakes into 90° bends, and cut all the PVC to 5" lengths.
Putting it together we get a higher,pointier low tunnel.
I think I could build the same design with 1/2" PVC and 3/8" rebar.

Christopher Weeks wrote:If I saw that volunteer in my garden, my first thought would be Solanum nigrum. (which excites me more than tomatoes, but I'd keep it either way. And I don't know if that even grows where you are.)

After your comment I started to rethink my animosity towards the black nightshade and relatives.
I decided to spare any I found, and maybe even spread them.
After all, I've not been able to eradicate them and yet my volunteer tomatoes haven't been affected yet.
Even if they are, the results might be magical.
So now I have some Wonderberries growing in my nursery pots!

We went to the garden at 7:30, to beat the heat!

The beans are running !
Evidently they are running instead of bushing out, as a response to the extreme heat.
On the other hand, they are running towards the sunnier end of the bed, which seems counter to that theory.

I finally got the pumpkin bed enclosed.
The plants were growing through the plastic crates I was using to protect them.