Friends are telling me they have little tomatoes on their vines. Some of ours have blossoms. 1st tomato jealousy sucks, but so does paying $10 for a tomato plant. The squash and cucumbers don’t have blossoms, but the plants are large and healthy. The cucumbers and pole beans are climbing. The lima beans that I thought were bush beans are putting out runners. If I was wrong this is going to be a tangled mess. They could be half-runners.
The tomato fence has not been finished and tomatoes are lying on the ground. That is an invitation to all kinds of pests. Now that some of the tomatoes have blossoms, they can use some fertilizer and/or side dressing with compost. Fertilizing the tomatoes before blooms appear causes the plant to concentrate its growth in the vine instead of in the tomatoes. The vines usually get too big anyway.
The potatoes in the bag are blooming away. The potato bag makes for difficult gravelling. It may be necessary just to wait until the tops start to die and harvest everything at once. A few new potatoes sure would be good with the sugar peas.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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