For male gardeners out of puberty and all female gardeners tomato envy is one of the greatest curses of gardening. Who will get the 1st tomato? Who will get the largest and the tastiest? Who has the coolest heirloom? What if the tomatoes get a disease or are disfigured? The list goes on and on and the anxiety builds until the crop starts coming in healthy and tasty.
The tomato fence in our garden had to have another rail installed. The vines are over my head, but the tomatoes (the vines are loaded) are mostly within a few inches of the ground. The fence seems to have kept the deer out this year, but there are still many critters that can get the low hanging fruit from the tomato vines. As the 4th of July (our normal 1st tomato day) approaches the anxiety hightens.
The okra is producing little pods and should be ready to pick by Sunday. Would it be wonderful to have okra and tomatoes together.? Maybe it will happen soon. This weekend will be devoted to making sauerkraut and drying squash. Of course the standard jobs of turning compost, mulching, weeding and tying tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants continues.
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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