More from the garden
My "Early Girl" tomato plant has been growing like crazy and is now heavy with unripe fruit. But the little bitty stake that I planted it with is no longer up to the task of holding it up. In fact, said stake turned into a problem -- the stem started to bend right where it's tied to the stake, and I'm a little concerned that serious damage has occurred there.
Crisis at hand, I rushed to Home Depot to get a cage or stake for the plants. Fortunately they had the nice kind of folding cage you can wrap around a plant that's too big for the normal cone-shaped cage. The bad news is that during the delicate operation of ensconcing the plant with the cage, two young green tomatoes fell off the vine. Nooooo! I couldn't just leave them there to attract bugs and then dessiccate, so I gave them a proper burial in an unused part of the garden. (There's no chance that they'll sprout unaided, given the serious lack of rainfall around here.)
So, now all four of my plants are safely tucked in cages -- I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the big plant survives the stem damage.
Crisis at hand, I rushed to Home Depot to get a cage or stake for the plants. Fortunately they had the nice kind of folding cage you can wrap around a plant that's too big for the normal cone-shaped cage. The bad news is that during the delicate operation of ensconcing the plant with the cage, two young green tomatoes fell off the vine. Nooooo! I couldn't just leave them there to attract bugs and then dessiccate, so I gave them a proper burial in an unused part of the garden. (There's no chance that they'll sprout unaided, given the serious lack of rainfall around here.)
So, now all four of my plants are safely tucked in cages -- I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the big plant survives the stem damage.