One more quick update before we leave on our trip, as I suspect the garden will…er…not look like this by the time we return… I spent awhile weeding and tying up the tomatoes today, let alone mowing and trimming. It’s looking good, so figured some evidence wouldn’t hurt!
The big deal for the day was getting the tomatoes and peppers prepped (see what I did there?) and ready. I put in the posts, one per tomato plant, and one per shared grouping of peppers. In the past, we’ve used twine and “rope” made from old t-shirts to get the tomato plants suspended, but this year, we’re just going to try one plant, one post, and see how it goes. I’m pretty sure I only snapped one tomato plant (and only one branch…nothing too crazy….), so not bad, overall!
The weather has been especially good for the eggplant, acorn squash, and zucchini plants. They’re spreading their leaves wide, but no flowers on them yet. A bit early, I suppose, but again, we’ve never grown eggplant, so I don’t have a good sense of what to expect on that one. The popcorn and sweet potatoes keep truckin’ along, too.
The sorghum….may just be a lost cause, at this point. The plants are getting taller, so that’s a plus, but there just aren’t many of them. Some seeds were planted in the holes between larger stalks, but I’m just not seeing a lot of evidence that they’re doing very much. Hopefully this is one of those things that turns around substantially while we’re gone!
And last, we’ve got the beans. They look really good! By the time we’re back, they’ll probably be gigantic. No flowers on them just yet, but July is typically when we’d expect them to really get going, so it’s somewhat soon.
Regardless, we’re leaving the garden in good shape. The sorghum has quite a few weeds around them, but most of the rest of the plots are looking pretty good. Was this post necessary after the last one a week ago? Probably not….but again, I wanted some evidence of how it looked before we were gone for over a week. I suspect I’ve got my work cut out for me upon our return…