Stake and Tomatoes

A few weeks ago the tomato plants looked scrawny and had a blue tint..I have applied small doses of compost tea and worked compost in the surrounding soil. They have demonstrated their appreciation by flowering and issuing forth a tomato here and there. The stakes are salvage construction material and the strips of cloth are the remnants of last winters knitting project, that come to think about it...remains unfinished. Hmmm. Rumor has it that I have to cut back additionally on irrigating due to the wonderous H2O rententive properties of the shredded cardboard. Fantastic.