We're late in planting tomatoes this year. Last Sunday we finally were going to get to it, but forgot it was a religious holiday and so Mr. L's family wanted to do something. *sigh* I was cranky about it, but got over it - sort of. Religious beliefs really do blow my mind* and its hard for me to not get pissy when they poke into my life even a ( Read more... )

This last winter we planted collard greens and they seem to be happy about the spots we chose for them in our planter boxes. But oh-no, worms found them, so now every few days I go out and hand pick the little suckers out of our plants. Without noticing it, I somehow got over my great distaste of coming near, never mind touching worms, to now ( Read more... )

We're having one of the coolest San Diego summers in years, so my tomatoes aren't doing as well as they should for the middle of August. I can't bring myself to complain though, since we don't have AC beyond a box unit in the bedroom. But yeah, this is kind of weird and it's not going to make for a lot of yummy tomato dishes in the future ( Read more... )

We had the first two tomatoes from our garden and they turned out not to be fabulous, but mealy and not that tasty ( Read more... )

This week we get the last of the tomatoes. There are a few stragglers still on the vine, but we've been pretty good about harvesting and making sure the birds that have been eating them don't get too many.


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I can feel a bit of my natural obsessiveness coming out as I maintain our tomato plants and worry at all the problems they attract. Mr. Logovo says we've had a better crop this year, but I'm not so sure. I really need to plan better and pay even more attention next year. If it's not worms then it's falling over plants, or wilt or pecking birds or ( Read more... )