Hanging Tomatoes

Hanging Tomatoes

I suppose by now that every gardener has heard of the hanging tomato vines. It really seemed like a great idea; but I have been just a little skeptical. Yesterday I had lunch with my mother at Plantation Estates. She told me about one of the residents that had a hanging tomato vine. We walked down to take a look. This vine is huge and has large tomatoes on it. I am sold and will have 1 (or 2) on my patio by the time the weekend is over. It will be easy to take into the greenhouse when the weather gets cool.

We got a few more squash yesterday, 2 zucchinis and a yellow crookneck. They were very small. My policy is to pull the squash when the blossom falls. I may need to start waiting one more day. Every variety of summer squash has at least 1 fruit on the plant. The spaghetti squash has blossoms. I really hope the pepper and garlic spray will keep the pickle worms away this year.

A short thunder storm boomed through last night; so watering will not be necessary before Sunday. Thunderstorms have been predicted for every night since Monday; but that is the 1st one that materialized.

I lost 4 tomato plants this past week. I bought 3 yesterday at Renfrow’s and have 2 left in the greenhouse. I also bought some cayenne pepper plants. We don’t eat them; but they make good bug spray. I would have bought habanero’s if they had had them. Also had to get more cucumber seeds.

David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.