Tomato Harvest
Judging by the yield table, this year I planted a tomato garden. Sure I started with a variety of vegetables, but that was just my wishful thinking and the garden always has the last word.
As usual at the time of harvest I look back at the growing season and pencil in lessons learned.
It turns out that the always thirsty cucurbits, the squashes and the cucumbers, really didn’t appreciate being grown in cocoa fiber lined hanging baskets. To prove their point they shriveled into nothingness in a very dramatic fashion and left behind the long suffering nasturtiums who are now hanging on for dear life through sheer will power.
It doesn’t matter how much you wish you could train tomato plants, or how much sturdier you make their supports, they will eventually overpower everything and sprawl out of control. Yes, they will produce abundantly, if you are willing to venture into the depths of leafy wilderness to grab the fruit.
Eggplant can be perfectly content in a large growing pot, actually mine did a lot better in a container than directly in the ground, but it has to be a large growing pot, with new soil if feasible.
The beans were very productive at the beginning of the summer, and will probably pick up once the weather cools down more, they really dislike the heat. Green beans are really not my thing, so I’ll allow the pods to dry from now on.
Carrots are the wild card, I won’t find out how well they did until the final cleaning before winter.
The chili peppers are the little engine that could, as always, and chug along in joyful fruitfulness regardless of the conditions.
Did I mention we have a lot of tomatoes this year? Large tomatoes, brown tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and some medium sized variety I swear I didn’t plant. It must be one of the sprouts I scooped out of the flower bed at the beginning of summer. Four and a half pounds of fruit so far, and the fall production is just getting started.
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