Planted two heirloom Tomato plants at the beginning of June. Which was a good move because of some very cold maydays, that certainly would have weakened my plants, or maybe killed them. I learned my lesson from last year’s May Frost… unusually mild winters and cold springs in the last few years.
One is a Mortgage Lifter the other a Thessalonica. The Thessalonika just got its first tiny tomato, but the Lifter is growing slowly and strangely. Half of the plant is thriving and the other half at a branch is small and withered… the leaves are curling up and it is “bunching”- It’s not really growing vertically. Been using miracle Gro every two weeks.
I’ve already harvested a few cayennes, on the other hand.
My (2 1/2 year-old) boy pulled up two pumpkin sprouts while I was at work yesterday. He pulled up two over the weekend, as well, so the count now stands at 13 sprouts. The biggest ones are just starting their third pair of leaves. I was worried about squirrels :: shaking head :: I need to worry about the boy.
Thanks for the info. They’re in a container because I’m renovating part of my garden. It’s been hot and dry, but I’ve been watering everything consistently.
I did eventually get my cherry tomato - I bought a Sun Gold from the downtown farmers’ market.
Everything is growing gangbusters lately. We had a bad dry spell a few weeks back (no rain for 8 or 9 days), but we watered faithfully and seem to have pulled through OK.
The tomatoes are growing like crazy! Next year, we’re going to have to re-think our garden plan. They are way too close together right now. I have to be very careful when watering - I bend over and pull the foliage back to get down at the roots instead of all over the plants. When they finally ripen, we’re going to have boatloads. I can’t wait!
We’ve harvested over two pounds of sugar snap peas, and have tons more that need to be picked tomorrow. Our green beans have reached the top of our trellis without flowering once. We’ve got some anaheim peppers that are close to being ready, and our green bell peppers are thriving for the first time in three years. We also have a melon that is going crazy. We thought about a trellis, but ended up skipping it. Now I wish we hadn’t. It’s trying to climb up everything it can get its little tendrils on. It has lots of flowers, but no set fruit yet. Maybe I’ll go around and sex up my melons this weekend. I don’t have a vibrating toothbrush, so I’ll have to fertilize manually.
I’m having midsummer remorse for not putting in more tomato plants. Oh, I know that we’ll be getting some lovely tomatoes soon, but I’m greedy. GREEDY. I want more!
We got a lot of rain yesterday, so we’ll see how they do now. The Brandywine was already three times bigger than the next largest plant.
Our Sweet Millions are going like the plague (but in a good way), and we’ve shared ONE Early Girl. The Sweet Million plant is about 5.5’ tall, which surprised me, I didn’t know they’d get that big. I think that the first good tomatoes of summer are the best thing in the whole world. Yum!
This is our first year growing tomatoes, and I’m thinking that if it’s as low maintenance as our tomato plants have been, I should try some sugar snap peas (or even regular peas) next year.
It’s currently raining like crazy in my patch of Florida; sunshowers are pretty common, especially in this part of the year. My little yellow heirloom tomatoes are still small and green, and the Mr. Stripey blossoms have not turned into tomatoes just yet. This isn’t such a bad thing, though; I’ve been too busy to be ready for picking and cooking with them.
Avarie, I’m sure that anything that vibrates should do the trick.
