Yummy!

[logovo]

This week we get the last of the tomatoes. There are a few stragglers still on the vine, but we've been pretty good about harvesting and making sure the birds that have been eating them don't get too many.



We have a bunch of pecked at and bruised tomatoes, so I'm thinking spagueti sauce this weekend :)

eta: the pictue looks upside in my iPhone, for no reason i can figure. Huh.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

Oh, drool! I'm so envious. We have the first three little green tomatoes on our plants, but it'll be at least six weeks before we have anything edible.

San Francisco summer, let me show you it. (:

[logovo]

Hah, we're in the middle of such a heat-wave that we need to pull out them tomato plants a week earlier than we planned. We've had all these different problems with the plants, they died sooner then I would have expected. It seems most people I've talked to just assume that's how tomato plants grow, but in reading about tomato plants (just a bit) I find that we had several diseases going on at the same time. Even then we had 200-300 of lovely tomatoes out of 7 plants, but wow, what if i can figure how to do this a lot better next year? \o/

[laurashapiro]

You will be Unstoppable Tomato Woman! (:

Ours have some bugs but seem to be doing okay, if only the wind wouldn't keep blowing them over...

[logovo]

I'm going to experiment with sturdier structures for next year. One major problem was the plants not being strong enough to take their weight, so a little wind and they were down. I was thinking having a beam overhead and using that with string. Cages and stakes have not worked well for us, because the ground is too soft.

[laurashapiro]

We had major wind issues, too. Cages knocked over, stakes leaning, etc. I think it could probably work with sturdier cages -- the kind my mother uses are large and the wire is thick. I haven't tried the string thing before. Be curious to see how that goes.