The plants don't look as good as during most years, but they're still producing well. Since the corn was recently removed from the swc's on the left, suckers from the tomato plants on the right were rooted in their place. That'll give me a second round of tomatoes just as summer is beginning to end. Jude's poor dog pen in the background....I really need to do something with it. She runs free now, and it just sits there looking ugly. Blech.
I planted some pole beans in the main raised bed, and they should really take off soon, too. I like to do a late season planting of beans rather than early season, because I get twice the yield that way. Just my observation.....
Anyway, I'll post more when time permits.
Jeff
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You're lucky you have a long enough season to plant pole beans this late. I got my last planting in over a week ago, and hope I get a decent harvest. The tomatoes sure look good. I've had just 3 very small Bloody Butchers so far.
Tomatoes look wonderful!!! I guess it is lucky that you had 800 gallons of water stored. I can't believe how so much of the country has had so little rainfall. I hope you see some rain soon.
Boy, those tomatoes look delicious! Mine are going gangbusters and I've just begun harvesting some of them. The ones I planted in big containers just don't grow anywhere near as large as yours! I must be doing something wrong! The others in my raised bed planters are over 6 feet tall and producing like crazy! Hope you get some rain soon! In So Cal we don't get rain between roughly April until December, so I am always out there with the hose!
Your tomatoes are wonderful. I was thinking about planting some bean, too, to pickle. Our tomatoes seem to love the dry, hot weather, though we do have to water them every once in while. Having a water reserve would have been nice. The plants seem to do much better with rainwater than with treated "hose" water.
We finally got a good but brief shower last night here in Florence. I hope it rained in the Mt. Star area.
Those tomatoes look absolutely wonderful! I can't wait until we have some decent tomatoes to eat.
You sure are lucky to have such a long growing season....especially when we are having this type of weather.
I am in Zone 5, Great Lakes, prime gardening area. Hard to believe we are in a severe drought and temperatures have been in the hundreds. Even plants in self-watering containers are looking bad. Guess this scorching heat is sapping the plants faster than they can take up water. May need to bring out some shade cloth and some misters.
So tickled that Jude gets to run around. Do you have any plans to divert gray water? That's a huge help for me. But I have bath-taking kids and don't have to capture laundry water. Yet.
I'm so glad Annie's Granny linked here, I think this is one of my new favorite blogs! It's horrid about everyone's rainfall, but I absolutely love the logical approach to gardening. Thank you!
Lookin good Jeff. All my bigger tomatoes are still green rocks :)
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