Here’s my cherry tomato. If you look close you can see how I trained the original plant to run along the star shaped pattern of the 1st scaffolds and then grow upshoot braches from there.
My regular maters I’ve let grow natural and not pinched any suckers. The result is that I’m growing mater bushes instead of traditional looking plants. They are short and thick right now… just about to start picking some soon. Several varieties from Cherokee Purple, to lemon yellow, to an orange variety I don’t recall the name, to traditional better boys. I removed the black landscape fabric a few days ago. The heat lately has been so intense that I think it was too much for them. I’m not really irrigating them though I need to rig up something as dry as we’ve been. I’ve watered them with the hose and thumb a couple times just to keep them from suffering.
Some pickles…..or soon to be pickles. Behind that is some feed corn from Academy I broadcast for chits and giggles. I got it WAYYYY too thick. I wasn’t using the space and figured I’d grow a few ears of some feed corn just for the hell of it. I’ll probably just use it for organic matter and plant my squash back in this bed next year…..and as I post this the bottom just fell out. Rain baby rain!!!!!
